Vok Toothtaker: Difference between revisions

Toothtaker was generally described as dour, although he was also a hobgoblin of considerable intelligence and would on rare occasion evince a remark of great esprit. His life as a surgeon and sailor had revealed to him the low value generally placed on individual life. His own career existed only because magical healing was generally considered too expensive and inconvenient for crew and troops. A sawbones was sufficient to treat minor injuries, and in the case of serious ones, death could still sometimes be prevented; in any case, sailors and soldiers leave few mourners, and more can always be acquired. Consequently, he was not generally susceptible to appeals to the value of life or the sanctity of the spirit. In his late-night pipe-sessions with Ka-Ess, he would generally play pessimist to Ka-Ess' transcendentalist.