Sergeant Slate was the bane of evil races in the common lands. Anyone who played a dark race in that era surely has a Sergeant Slate story, typically he "almost came outta nowhere".
He should also be very highly magic resistant. I recall spamming several roots even as a 50 wizard before one landed and not for a very substantial duration either.
The very high magic/spell resists should go for the North Ro guards as well.
A druid in his 40s or so obviously struggling to bring down the big man:
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