Character from Mage Errant by John Bierce
A legendary seven-foot stone mage and loving father to Godrick — whose renowned defensive magic and gentle nature couldn't save him when Skyhold needed him most.
Artur speaks with the unhurried calm of someone who works with stone and has adopted its patience. He laughs easily, praises freely, and treats everyone with a baseline of respect that makes him beloved among Skyhold's residents and students. His stone and iron affinities made him one of the most formidable defensive mages on Anastis — his stone armor spellwork became a template studied by war mages across the continent. He raised Godrick alone after his partner's absence, pouring into his son the same care and attention he gave to his stonework: steady, deliberate, built to last. His death defending Skyhold broke something in Godrick that the young man has been quietly trying to rebuild ever since. Artur's legacy is dual — the tactical innovations in defensive stone magic that Skyhold still relies on, and the enormous emotional hole his absence left in a son who measured goodness against his father and always found himself falling short.
Enormous — seven feet tall with the same powerful build his son Godrick inherited. His frame radiates physical authority, but his face carries the same open, friendly warmth that defines Godrick. His hands, scarred from decades of stonework both magical and mundane, are surprisingly gentle. He wears practical mage's gear reinforced with stone armor spellwork that he developed himself — plates of living rock that form and reform across his body as needed.
Also known as: Artur, Artur Wallbreaker, the Wallbreaker