“Thrush: Male Human Ftr3/Sct4; CR 7; Medium Humanoid (human); HD 4d8+3d10+21; hp 83; Init +7; Spd 40 ft/x4; AC 20 (+3 armor, +2 shield, +4 dex, +1 misc), touch 15, flat-footed 20; Base Atk/Grapple +6/+8; Full Atk +8/+3 or +10/+5 Two-handed (1d8+3;20/x3, Bone Spear), +8/+3 or +10/+5 Two-handed (2d6+3;20/x3, Whale-Tooth Greatspear), +10/+5 One-handed (1d6+2;20/x2, Fighting Shortspear), +10/+5 Two-handed (1d10+2;20/x3, Bone Bow), +10/+5 One-handed (1d4+2;19-20/x2, Bone Dagger), +10/+5 One-handed (1d6+2;19-20/x2, Short Broadblade Sword); SA&SQ Uncanny Dodge(Ex), Trackless Step(Ex), Fast Movement(Ex), Trapfinding(Ex), Skirmish(Ex), Battle Fortitude(Ex); SR 0; AL CG; SV Fort +8, Ref +9, Will +3; Str 14(+2), Dex 18(+4), Con 16(+3), Int 10(+0), Wis 12(+1), Cha 8(-1);

Skills: • Balance +6 • Climb +2 • Concentration +3 • Craft (Naturecraft)¹ +10 • Escape Artist +4 • Heal +1 • Hide¹ +13 • Jump +8 • Knowledge (geography) +4 • Knowledge (nature) +8 • Listen¹ +10 • Move Silently¹ +11 • Ride +4 • Search¹ +1 • Sense Motive¹ +3 • Spot¹ +10 • Survival¹ +8 • Swim¹ +3 • Tumble +12 • Use Rope¹ +4

Traits • Abrasive (UA Pg 87) : Gain +1 to Intimidate checks, -1 to Diplomacy and Bluff. • Aggressive (UA Pg 87) : Gain +2 on initiative checks, -1 to AC. • Relentless (UA Pg 90) : Gain +1 on Constitution checks made to continue tiring effects. If ever you would become fatigued you instead become exhasted.

Flaws: • Painful Laughter: The Laughter of Children is painful to you. Each round you hear laughter, you suffer 2 hit points damage. This effect will cease to function in the confines of a silence spell. • Pact of Blood: You are required to kill a worthy target (such as challenging prey, monster, or humanoid) each day or suffer 5 hit points of damage which cannot be healed through normal or magical means. These hit points will begin heal as normal upon the successful killing of a worthy target. The killing of an innocent or easy victim will not resolve this requirement. • Limited Healing: You do not heal Wound Points as other characters. You must consume one standard meal each evening in order to initiate the overnight healing process. • Empty Sustenance: You are not required to eat, and suffer no ill effects from starvation, dehydration, or alcohol. You also have no sense of taste.

Feats: • Alertness (PH 89) • Combat Reflexes (PH 92) • Dodge (PH 93) • Manyshot (PH 97) • Point Blank Shot (PH 98) • Rapid Shot (PH 99) • Weapon Finesse (PH 102) • Agile Ripost(Modern 77)

Special Ability: • Environmental Protection (as a permanent Endure Elements.) • Low-Light Vision • Drown Immunity (Not waterbreathing • Snowland Stride(Trackless, Unhindered, +20 Movement) • Shatter 1/day, Prot v Energy 1/day, Combust 1/day, Mage Hand at will • +1 Str • +4 Save vs Magic • Force Resistance: 10 • Bonus Feat at 7th

Racial Abilities: • Base land speed of 30 feet. • Bonus Feat: 1st level bonus feat • Favored Class: Any

Class Abilities: • Uncanny Dodge(Ex): You retain your Dexterity bonus to AC even if flatfooted or struck by an invisible attacker. • Trackless Step(Ex): You leave no trail in natural surroundings, and cannot be tracked unless you choose to. • Fast Movement(Ex): Your speed increases (limited by armor and encumbrance) • Trapfinding(Ex): You can use the Search skill to locate traps when the task has a DC higher than 20. You can use the Disable Device skill to disarm magic traps. • Skirmish(Ex): For any round in which you move at least 10’, you gain 1d6 damage and a +1 competence bonus to AC. • Battle Fortitude(Ex): You gain a +1 competence on Fortitude saves and initiative checks. • Armor Training (Ex): Light

Thrush remembers a time when he was happy, had a home, knew the joys of family, brothers and sisters, father, mother, loving wife, a young child. He was a hunter, a provider, thrilling in the stalk and the kill, acknowledging the animal that die to feed his tribe, his village. And in a night of extraordinary length, he lost it all, as the Hush swallowed his village, gone in the space of a few hours… or so it seemed, for when dawn finally came for Thrush it was not the day after but seven years, gone by in no time at all. His life erased from meaning, his existence torn asunder, he wandered into the frozen waste to die… but didn’t.

Something terrible had become of him, for although he could feel the cold, feel it deep inside, it could no longer kill him, nor could the hunger he felt as a gnawing pain lay him low, nor the biting wind nor freezing waves claim him. But neither could food ease his hunger, nor fire warm him, nor alcohol drown his sorrows. Soon he came to realize that the gods had truly abandoned him, cast him adrift on the sea of life, leaving him only one pleasure, one release, one way to ease the loss if only for a time; the hunt, the kill, of something worthy, for a worthy reason. So now he haunts the land, not fully alive, not yet dead, unable to take his own life but unwilling to let another take it for him. And So he Hunts, to kill the darkness, to slay the pain, to feed others if not himself, a man without a home, without hope, seeing only an endless succession of tomorrows, for in the back of his mind he wonders, “Can I even die at all?” and all the answers terrify him.

He is driven to find a cause worthy of him, for his life was dedicated to the feeding of his village, but has not found one and cannot settle down for the laughter of children is physically painful to him.