Thokkra 'Salt-Eye' Deepstone, a Goliath Blood Hunter — D&D 5e NPC portrait
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Thokkra 'Salt-Eye' Deepstone

"The Disappointed Epicurean"

Goliath Blood Hunter (Order of the Mutant) CG Lvl 7 Guild Artisan (Cook)

Female (She/Her) · Adult, 42 years

Ability Scores

STR
18
+4
DEX
14
+2
CON
16
+3
INT
15
+2
WIS
12
+1
CHA
8
-1

Combat

Armor Class
16
Scale Mail and Dexterity
Hit Points
67
Hit Dice: 7d10
Initiative
+2
Speed
30 ft.
Proficiency
+3
Passive Perception
11

Attacks

The Meat-Thinker (Greataxe)+71d12 + 4 slashing
Handaxe+71d6 + 4 slashing

Personality

Personality

She tastes the air to identify nearby creatures by scent-notes, constantly mutters critiques of the local flora under her breath, and never uses a fork when a finger or a cleaver will do.

Ideal

Excellence. If a life is taken, its essence must be honored through the perfect preparation of its remains.

Bond

Her iron cauldron, a relic from her first mentor, which she treats with more tenderness than any living being.

Flaw

She will risk the entire party's safety to harvest a 'perfectly aged' organ from a monster in the middle of a collapsing dungeon.

Backstory

Thokkra was born to the Deepstone clan in the Spine of the World, where survival meant eating bland lichen and stringy mountain goat. While her kin sought glory in battle, Thokkra sought it in the marrow. She abandoned her tribe after a heated argument regarding the 'utter lack of complexity' in their ceremonial mammoth roast, descending to the lowlands with nothing but a rusted cleaver and a tongue primed for discovery. She spent a decade as a galley chef for mercenary companies, but her ambition proved her undoing: she nearly died after attempting to sauté the toxic spores of a Myconid Sovereign to see if they paired well with garlic.

To survive her own culinary curiosity, Thokkra sought out the Order of the Mutant. She didn't want their power to hunt monsters; she wanted their alchemical blood-mutations to harden her gut against the lethal toxins of her ingredients. Now, she wanders the frontier as a 'monster hunter,' though she views every Chimera or Basilisk not as a threat to be vanquished, but as a rare protein that has yet to be properly braised. Her transformation into a Blood Hunter was a practical necessity—if you want to eat the heart of a Remorhaz, you have to be able to survive the heartburn it causes.

She carries a massive, rune-etched cleaver she calls 'The Meat-Thinker,' and her apron is stained with the juices of creatures that most adventurers would run from in terror. Thokkra is famously hard to please; she once saved a village from a Manticore only to spend three hours lecturing the mayor on why the village's local salt was 'chemically offensive' and 'unworthy of a peasant’s porridge.'

Abilities & Actions

The Toxic Palate (Passive)

Thokkra has advantage on saving throws against being poisoned and has resistance to poison damage. As an action, she can taste a sample of a creature's remains or ichor to immediately learn its creature type and any damage resistances it possesses.

Experimental Reduction (2/Short Rest)

As a bonus action, Thokkra consumes a concentrated alchemical broth. Choose one: (1) Celerity: Her Dexterity score increases by 3 (max 20) for 1 hour. (2) Reconstruction: At the start of each of her turns, she regains 5 hit points if she has at least 1 hit point, lasting for 1 minute. (3) Cruelty: She can roll an additional hemocraft die for rite damage for 1 minute.

Crimson Rite: Rite of the Roar

Thokkra imbues 'The Meat-Thinker' with thunderous energy. She takes 1d6 necrotic damage, and until her next rest, her weapon attacks deal an extra 1d6 thunder damage. If she hits a creature with this, it must succeed on a DC 13 Strength save or be pushed 10 feet back.

The Cleaver's Critique

When Thokkra hits a creature with a melee attack using 'The Meat-Thinker,' she can expend a use of her Blood Curse of the Marked. The target takes an additional 1d6 damage and has disadvantage on the next attack roll it makes as she insults its 'pathetic, fatty marbling.'

DM Notes

Thokkra speaks in a low, gravelly rasp, sounding like stones grinding in a pot. She should never compliment the players directly; instead, she might say 'You're less useless than a damp match,' which is her version of high praise. Gesture: She frequently wipes her cleaver on her apron while staring intensely at the party's muscle mass, as if calculating their protein yield. Reaction: If offered a 'potion,' she will sniff it, grimace, and suggest three herbs that would make it 'actually drinkable.'