Kracka

Character overview

Epithet and essence: Kracka is a stocky hobgoblin guardsman who fights with a hammer and shield.
Portrait: Kracka stands five-foot-five and is very stocky. He carries his hammer with pride and wields a shield in battle with confidence.
History and ties: Raised among dwarves, Kracka identifies himself as Bromli Alefist’s bastard son, though he denied any family tie to Rhograk. He joined the Hellbreakers League as a new recruit and carries the Hellbreakers’ bombs because he lacks other ranged options. At the hideout, he prowled for biscuits, flipped off Rhograk, and introduced himself before learning that Bromli Alefist had died. He shouted at Rhograk for not telling him directly, and thanked The Party for avenging his father, whom he called a good but complicated man and better than himself. During a week of rest, he worked at the docks. On the road to Vordia, he helped travelers lift carts, free wagons from mud, repair wheels, and gather firewood. At the Bright Embers Orphanate, he tried to take a plate’s blow for Samantha, then shouted at the unseen children for wasting food. In the playroom, he helped Mielikki hold the toy box shut. The lullaby-haunt nearly put him to sleep before The Attic Whisperer knocked him unconscious. Samantha healed him; he recognized the creature, knocked it prone, and attacked it with his hammer until Mielikki destroyed it.
At an inn in Vordia, Kracka gathered information, learning that the townsfolk loved the orphanage’s nuns and feared something had happened to them. In Fernsby, he asked about the vandalized green, examined the damage with Khar’gan, and helped identify the trail leading into the woods. He tied off a rope and descended first into the ravine, where a goblin snake bit him. He intercepted a viper, retched from foul fumes, failed to control a goblin snake, and was bitten and poisoned. After recovering, he smashed the many-headed goblin snake with his hammer, taunted it in Goblin, and resisted more venom. He searched the ravine and found a soothing tonic. In Stumpfield, he told Erk that The Group had killed the goblin snakes and fashioned a rope tail for the communal sculpture. On the road to Umok, he rushed to revive a burned goblin with an elixir of life.
Kracka investigated forest fires, helping extinguish one with a trench, dirt, mud, and a bedroll, and followed tracks to two hellhounds. After identifying them, he struck and killed one; The Group killed the other and returned with its body. At Sister of the Golden Erinys’ mountain mission, he claimed he had been invited and challenged Sisterhood Of The Golden Arenas. He knocked two unconscious nonlethally, dragged them together, and entered the building. Inside, he fought through the kitchen and training room, taunting and striking sisters while protecting The Group’s advance. In the study, he killed an avian devil and attacked Sister Sister Endreah nonlethally. When she critically wounded Lexx and fled, Kracka pursued, struck and taunted her, attempted to grapple her, and was knocked prone. Sister Endreah then lowered her weapon, surrendered, and demanded to know what The Group wanted. Kracka questioned her. He also negotiated with Zagnub and an Brakknap, recognized the Isgeri Slayers, and fought them at their The Camp.
Kracka later fought Isgeri Slayers and wolves and defeated them, and devised a plan to conceal the nature of the Isgeri Slayers’ deaths by blaming them on devils and staging a misleading scene. He collaborated with Lexx Rennde and Khar’gan on plans and shared supplies. He encountered a bear and sloths, and identified and collected a Striking Rune and a Smuggler’s Padlock. He attempted to repair his shield; Goblins ultimately fixed it.
Powers/limits

• Fights with a hammer and shield and has used bombs carried for the Hellbreakers.
• Has used Taunting Strike to intimidate foes and blocked attacks with his shield.
• Has incapacitated opponents in nonlethal combat.
• Was bitten and poisoned by goblin snakes, later resisting more venom and recovering.
• Helped extinguish a forest fire and followed tracks to hellhounds.
• Identified and collected a Striking Rune and a Smuggler’s Padlock.

Story uses

• Helped travelers and allies, including attempting to shield Samantha and reviving a burned goblin.
• Gathered information at an inn and examined damage to the green in Fernsby.
• Fought goblin snakes, hellhounds, the sisters at the mountain mission, Isgeri Slayers, and wolves.
• Confronted opponents directly, including challenging the Sisterhood and pursuing Sister Sister Endreah.