Pickaxe

Pickaxe is a character played by Raltin Avarr.

Beginnings of a Brute
Pickaxe was born in the lonely mountains of Trollheim, his mother and father as trolls go were fairly well off; owning a small cave in the mountains with a farm of mountain goats that they learned to raise from another troll by the name of My Arm, who had taken to the life of a farmer with the help of an adventurer. His first meal came when his father was carrying him through an abandoned mine shaft that the dwarves had dug, his father putting him down for a moment. Whilst his father was off looking ahead in the tunnels, the baby troll caught sight of an old pickaxe left behind by the dwarves, and the rest is history.

Ways of the Troll
A few years after earning his name by eating a pickaxe, he grew from infancy to childhood, and so began his lessons of life from his father. His family, having been helped indirectly from a human, was not fully against mankind, and so his father told him: "Learn what stinky man-thing like first, then eat". Pickaxe took this to heart when it came to the humans, and chose to learn what the person was like before deciding whether or not to make "tasty soup".

Things Get Complicated
Soon after reaching adulthood, his father had gone on a raiding party to "smash the little cave-men" and fell in the skirmish. His mother, soon after the birth of Pickaxe's little brother Logs and death of his father, journeyed out of the cave to go "rock picking" and never returned. Pickaxe inherited the family cave and goat farm, taking pride in continueing on with the "raising tasty horn-and-hoof things" and passing on the lessons his father had taught him to his little brother.

On His Own
Through the years before the disappearance of his mother and death of his father, he made many friends and developed a love for digging. His closest friend is Anvil, a smarter than average Troll who had damaged his throat when he was a baby; attempting to eat a large anvil and being left with a near inability to talk. Pickaxe often acts as a voice for Anvil, who will clarify through hand and head gestures as to a "yes" or "no". Pickaxe and Anvil were close since their child days, and Pickaxe had parted his fathers lessons to Anvil regarding "man-things". Another friend of Pickaxe's is Stump, a slightly over weight Troll who is not a good climber, and Pickaxe often mocks him for this; "Hur hur hur! Fat Stump no climb good!". Despite the occasional joke he throws at Stump, they are still good friends.

With the loss of his parents, Pickaxe turned the cave into more or less a bachelor pad, inviting his friends over regularly for goat soup and to go on adventures, always taking his little brother with him too. On one adventure when he was on his own, he came across the beaches of Rellekka and found a rock in the sand. Pickaxe noticed other rocks too, but this one he claimed to his friends "could move", and had picked it up and taken it in as a pet. He often claims that Pet Rock will no longer move when Pickaxe is close by, because Pickaxe had damaged the trust between the two by eating another rock in front of Pet Rock.

Seeing the World
Pickaxe began to grow tired of life in the mountains, and decided he would dig tunnels all around Gielinor so that he could travel wherever he pleased. It was when he decided this that Anvil chose to pitch in and help, wanting to see the world as well.

Tunnel to "Fail-of-dur"
One of the earliest tunnels dug by Pickaxe lead to the human city of Falador, to which the inhabitants were apprehensive at first but quickly took a liking to the two Trolls. Pickaxe and Anvil can be seen at times in the Rising Sun Inn, where Pickaxe made a lasting nemisis: "no taste good man-woman-thing Emily", when Pickaxe had licked the head of Emily to see if she tasted as good as she smelled.

"Can-of-fish and Morman-tania"
It was in a late afternoon at the Rising Sun in "Fail-of-dur" thatPpickaxe and Anvil had heard the tales of a strange land called Morytania and a small bar in Canifis. The two decided to begin work on a tunnel to this distant place, and eventually achieved their goal. Pickaxe had to stop construction on the tunnel at the edge of Morytania because the soil was "too wet to hold shape" and so the two dug the exit to the tunnel near the River Salve. They reached the bar in Canifis much to their joy, and began a time of "fun with dog-men", at which Pickaxe had quite a time of wrestling with the Werewolves. Despite the fun at first, few in Morytania even knew what Trolls were, and some were quite curious of the distant travelers and others apprehensive. The Vampyres had seen them as useless oafs and looked down upon them like the Werewolves, even more so since their rocky skin halted any chance at biting them for blood. Pickaxe himself looked down on the Vampyres because of their arrogent ways, often making remarks about "mean bat-men".

Appearance
He looks just like the average Mountain Troll but slightly larger, around eight feet tall, maybe take a few inches off. He often wears the pelt of a "big dog" he killed.

Weapons and Armor
Pickaxe holds very few pieces of armor, mostly being crude pieces of iron and wood. He has one weapon in his hands that he is very proud of: "big bone of leg from wingy-fire-lizard", of which came from a dragon he had killed.

==Other Information==
 * Uniquely, he has resistance to dragonfire, a result of having tunneled into Lumbridge Castle's store rooms and having eaten the majority of their supply of antidragon shields.

Trivia

 * He is named after the first thing he ate.