Background

The Oldfist family is some of the more eccentric in all of Whitevale, let alone merely Boldpeak, and their curious behaviours are reflected in their latest generations of Bloodbowl players. Beynard's grandmother, Reiala, famously played every game with a 100-kilo weight strapped to her back, thinking that it would toughen her up for any matches of great importance to come in the future. Sure enough, she finally dropped the weight in the fourteenth All-Vale League Final, yet by that point, with over 200 career games, her legs were warped to the point of uselessness, and she was knocked out wihthin the first five minutes. Beynard's father, Lorna, had similar habits, eating nothing but moss and the blood of his killed foes for a thirty-year span as part of the Clearbridge Stalkers side. Yet, tragically, he was in fact the kit manager for the team, and so never actually killed anyone to feast on their flesh. In later years, he then developed a fatal allergy to moss, and his diet cost him his life, the old man dying mere days after Beynard was born.

Beynard, however, appears to have toned down some of the ridiculousness of his ancestors, and settled into a more conventional living pattern, albeit with a slight twist: he wakes at 5, trains for twelve hours, then retires for the evening to bang his head against the primary load-bearing wall of his family manor for several hours.

His teammates are still, unsuccessfully, trying to talk him out of that ghastly getting up at 5 business.

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After 7 games / his 7th game

Yet the training regime has paid off, and he now boasts one of the fiercest tackles ever seen from a Breakers blitzer. His raw strength, combined with his carefully-honed blocking technique, make him a force to be reckoned with in contact, yet the endless nights of head-bonking have rendered him somewhat tactically uninformed.

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After 13 games / his 12th game

Beynard's increasingly reckless playing style is beginning to catch up to his body. Both the coach's tactics and his own dim-witted relentlessness encourage the poor blitzer to smash into enemy blockers and big guys until one, or both, of the combatants drop dead, and with every foe pounded to the ground, Beynard moves closer to his own fate. Now sporting two key injuries, one to the chest and another to the right elbow, he is a clean strike away from a more crippling wound, which would impede both his ability to play Bloodbowl, and his ability to, well, live.

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After 19 games / his 16th game

Mere days after being awarded the role of team captain, Beynard lost his life against the Egyptian Mummies Khemri team, becoming the third Breaker to die in as many ELF league matches. His once-powerful tackles were useless against the enemy Tomb Guardians, who simply had to trip and fall onto Beynard to smash his battered ribcage and kill him. He is survived by his three brothers, Aurard, Triiat and Fliewa, who have continued the family tradition of eccentric nonsense by endeavouring to enter the one profession more painful and fatal than Bloodbowl: politics.