Ivan and Pikel Bouldershoulder

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Residents of R.A. Salvatores Forgotten Realms Universe, these two span several of his storylines. They are Dwarves, Beyond there surname, and that they live in Vaasa, their clan is unknown, although they frequently ally themselves with the Battlehammer clan. At the start of The Cleric Quintet Ivan and Pikel were employed by the Edificant Libarary as the cooks. The priests say that they were some of the best cooks that the library had ever seen.

[edit] Ivan Bouldershoulder

Ivan is a stereotypical dwarf. Surly, strong, and always ready for a fight, he has allied himself with both Cadderly Bonaduce and Drizzt Do'Urden, two other characters of R.A. Salvatore's creation. Ivan is described as roughly four feet tall, and about two hundred pounds. He is almost never seen without his brother Pikel, who he often serves as translater for. Ivan's weapon of choice is a large two-bitted axe. He also carries a crossbow that Cadderly designed. The crossbow, which Ivan himself built, has darts that all have unique bolts which are designed to fold in upon themselves, compressing the oil of impact, inside, causing an explosion. Ivan also wears a helmet with two antlers on the head, which he also built himself. He can use the helmet just as well as his axe as a weapon by headbutting his opponents. The antlers are held in place by lacquer, but he will not refrain from using cruder methods, such as screwing them in place, if none is available.

Under the influence of the chaos curse, Ivan did almost nothing except cook for the gluttons, and fight with his brother. But when Cadderly tried to talk to him, he and his brother were able to shake off the curse temporarily, on account of dwarves' natural resistance to enchantments. After he and Pikel came to their senses, they journied with Cadderly to the cellars of The Edificant Library to defeat the chaos curse, and the preist, Barjin, who brought it. Ivan is also shown to care deeply for his brother Pikel, especially when Pikel was apparently killed while fighting undead. After Pikel was struck down, Ivan only cared for hunting down the undead they were fighting, and almost attacked Cadderly when Cadderly was trying to calm Ivan down.

[edit] Pikel Bouldershoulder

Pikel is the antithesis of his brother, he is green haired (he dyed it as such) and is worn so that it is braided behind his ears into his hair, and a follower of the way of the Druid (or "Doo-Dad!", by his wording). His clothing is also unique among dwarves, preferring a green sleeveless robe and sandals over armor and heavy boots. When in battle, he often dons a cooking pot for a helmet. His weapon of choice is the shillelagh, a club. He always refers to this weapon as a "Sha-la-la!". Pikel's vocabulary is mostly restricted to "Hee Hee Hee", "Poof!", "Wee!", "Ooo," and "Boom", his brother usually translating for everyone else. He is often identified by his trademark "Oo oi!" Whenever Ivan refers to Pikel as "me brother", Pikel always echos with "Me brudder". He recently lost an arm during the War against Obould Many-Arrows, but seeing as he lives at Spirit Soaring with Cadderly, he will almost certainly get it back.