Turner

Biodata

Background

As a young man, Angie left home hoping to master a craft and use it to help his hometown. He encountered nobles and their associates who refused to share their knowledge with him 27.

Later, two pandaren saved Angie in Elwynn Forest. He hosted them in return, watched them forge weapons, and learned blacksmithing from them before they resumed their travels. Years later, he could remember what they looked like but not their names 5.

Appearance

Angie is an older, burly, bearded man with a weathered appearance 5 10.

• Build: Burly 5
• Facial hair: Beard 5
• Complexion: Weathered 10

Personality

Angie is welcoming but cautious. He accepted Li Xing into Hunter Town and rebuked the young hunters for condemning an outsider without getting to know him. Privately, however, he admitted that he had placed Li Xing outside the town center as a precaution and would continue to judge his character 5 9 16.

He values his craft and can be blunt with demanding customers. Although Li Xing’s Miracle produced armor beyond his own standards, Angie said forging had become part of his life and that he could still appreciate its beauty 19 31.

Angie initially regarded the pandaren as foolish for teaching others freely. As he grew older, he came to believe their openness held a wisdom he did not fully understand 17.

Skills and Craft

Blacksmithing

Angie learned smithing from two pandaren and runs Hunter Town’s smithy 5.

• Forges tools, weapons, and armor; his shop also stocks farming implements and hunting bows 4 16 19.
• Made an elegant longsword using Li Xing’s stories and the young hunters’ requests as design references 19.
• Demonstrated forging to Li Xing and inspected the armor and weapons Li Xing made for the shop 31 48.

Town leadership

As mayor, Angie handles settlements and organizes responses to threats 5 26.

• Waived Li Xing’s registration fee and assigned him a residence after Lucy introduced him 5.
• Ordered hunters to travel in parties of at least four after the report of an undead mage, and called for a residents’ meeting 26.

Story Role

Li Xing’s arrival

Lucy brought Li Xing to Angie’s smithy to ask about settling in Hunter Town. Angie welcomed him after hearing his claim that he had grown up in Pandaria and seeing the wolves he had hunted. The assigned house, however, turned out to have a collapsed roof 4 5 6.

When the young hunters spread suspicions about Li Xing, Angie scolded them and urged them to meet him instead. He later suggested that Li Xing tell an unfamiliar travel story to answer their doubts, prompting Li Xing to adapt the history of Middle-earth for the tavern 9 11.

Work at the smithy

After learning that Li Xing had mastered his younger brother’s Miracles, Angie invited him to help at the smithy. He gave Li Xing the story-inspired longsword as payment for his work 19.

Li Xing subsequently demonstrated Miracle-based forging and completed armor orders to Angie’s satisfaction. After Li Xing forged a shortsword that met his requirements, Angie said the earlier sword had been paid for and that he would begin paying wages. He also allowed Li Xing to use the smithy’s equipment after work, asking him to save one of his future good creations for him 31 48.

Threats to Hunter Town

When Li Xing reported masked strangers near the river and volunteered to scout west of town, Angie gave him bracers, five arrows, and a signal firework. Following Li Xing’s encounter with an undead mage, Angie convened the hunters and introduced new safety rules 23 26.

After the hunters defeated a group of bandits, Angie examined the bodies with Old Turner. Although his brother was concerned by the fatal sword wounds, Angie affirmed his trust in Li Xing 41.

Academy proposal

Angie approved of Li Xing’s plan to build an academy on the high ground and share knowledge with the town. He offered to teach Li Xing his own skills after the traveling merchants’ visit, though he laughed at Li Xing’s proposal that town elders teach at the academy 27.

Relationships

• Old Turner — Angie’s younger brother, a former soldier. Angie asked him to check on Li Xing, and the brothers later discussed both the academy proposal and Li Xing’s strength 18 27 41.
• Jerei “Little Jerry” Turner — Old Turner’s son and Angie’s nephew 18 20.
• Li Xing — A newcomer Angie admitted to Hunter Town, employed at his smithy, and came to trust 5 19 41.
• Lucy — A town resident who calls him Uncle Turner. She introduced Li Xing to him, and Angie defended her when Old Turner complained that she had omitted him from Li Xing’s introductions 4 5 20.
• The two pandaren — Travelers who saved Angie and taught him blacksmithing. He later forgot their names 5.

Notable Quote

“All we admire is a person’s courage and strength, but you pandaren care more about what’s inside a person. Even a little, unremarkable Hobbit is worthy of your respect!” 17