Hammer

This article is about The Hero of Strength, Hammer. For the weapons of the same name, see Hammer (Weapon).

Hammer

Background

Sister Hannah of the Temple of Light is the Hero of Strength. Adopted by the Abbot as a small child and raised as a Monk, she is loyal to her father. Despite this, she occasionally complains about Monks, and questions their pacifist nature.

The player first meets her during the Golden Acorn/Wellspring quest. The Abbot is overprotective, and elects to hire a bodyguard to protect the Monk sent to complete the ritual––his daughter. As the player approaches the Wellspring Cave, Hannah is perched on the ruins, drinking and singing a song about Oakvale. As the Hero and Hannah go about their task, Lucien sends his men to collect Hannah. Upon their return, Lucien's envoy murders the Abbot, Hammer's father. Enraged, Hannah fells him with one blow of her hammer. Her father's death finally lends much-needed proof to her theories about pacifism, causing her to ask to be called Hammer as opposed to her original title of Sister Hannah, and she sets out with the Hero and Theresa on their quest to defeat Lucien. After you return from the spire, Hammer will have different clothing on, and she will also look a little bit older.

Personality

Hammer is highly talkative at first. The player's sojourn through the Wellspring Cave elicits a near-endless stream of comments. As the game progresses, her talkative nature diminishes. She remains uneasy around newer people, and manages to alienate many of the people she comes in contact with. She is specifically restrained from dealing with Jeeves because of her policy of tact, and manages to ensure her non-entry into the Crucible.

She shares a very strained relationship with Garth. This is out of her hatred for Lucien (as Garth helped him at one point) for killing her father, and his pursuit of knowledge over strength, which she views as a folly in the Monks' teachings.

Despite her incredible strength and almost brutish nature, she appears to be an articulate, intelligent young woman, wise enough to question what she has been raised to believe. She also has an excellent singing voice.

Beliefs

Originally, Hammer believed good would come from years of praying at the Temple of Light. However, her beliefs were shaken when she saw that a few moments of violence (killing some Balverines) can make more of a difference than all her prayers. Eventually, she grows weary of violence and killing.

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At the end of the Main Quest, Hammer is teleported to a Monastery in an un-named land only referred to as "the north" to become a warrior monk, due to her love of fighting but her current disgust with killing. She then reveals that she is not leaving anything behind...except the best friend she ever had, the Hero.

The banshees in the game whisper that she blames her father's death on you, and that she'll betray you one day, although this could be one of the Hero's fears since banshees only whisper the fears and darkest thoughts they see inside of you.

If you choose the Sacrifice wish instead of the Love wish at the Main Quest's end, Hammer says that she could not have sacrificed her father herself. She seems impressed by your choice to sacrifice the chance to revive your family.

Trivia

• Hammer is voiced by Julia Sawalha.
• When your hero first meets up with Hammer after spending 10 years in the spire, there is a visible change in her appearance. After 10 years of being a Hero she seemed to have purchased some armor, and lost a bit of weight, although this size decrease may be because her monk robes magnified her size as seem when on a PC.
• There has been speculation that Hammer is the Hero's presumably deceased sister Rose. However this is unlikely as Lucien states that none of the first three heroes are present when the Hero and Rose step into the circle and that only one of you is the fourth. Meaning Rose is probably a Hero, but not any of the ones who will be Lucien's downfall. It should also be noted that only when choosing the 'Love' ending does the player character receive a letter from Rose, so if Hammer was truly the Player's sister, the letter would be given to the player regardless of ending.
• She mentions after first meeting the Hero that others used to call her "Hammer" as a joke (and a play on her real name) to make fun of her size. What was once a cruel nickname later became a fitting hero title.
• One may notice the she is extremely large (a physical effect of having a high mastery of strength), larger than the PC can actually become from fully mastering strength.

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