Ferka Doru’festan
Ferka Doru’festan is a badgerfolk fighter who made the bold choice to leave his homeland, the Barb-ba Kus tribe of honey badgers, in search of adventure in the Empire. He works as a freelancer.1
Hero of Nearlake
At first the locals met Ferka with suspicion and mistrust, some seeing him as an experiment or a demon. Their view of him changed completely after he played a crucial part in defeating a hill giant that had been terrorising the town of Nearlake. He fought it alongside an adventurer who has since died, and was so badly wounded that he lost consciousness. Having seen his bravery, the townspeople took in their new hero and tended his wounds. Since then Ferka has been a mercenary for hire in the Nearlake region.2
Mapka
Ferka fights with a shortsword and shield in a ferocious style called "Mapka", a traditional technique refined by his honey badger tribe. It uses a badgerfolk's small size and claws to climb over opponents and strike from unexpected angles. Familiar to badgerfolk, it often catches the Empire's fighters off guard, and it lets him take on foes who would usually outmatch him.2
Arcane casters are rare among badgerfolk, who have little experience of facing magic users, so Ferka prefers to deal with those who do not use magic first and leaves casters for last.2
Notes
Sources
This article draws on:
- MCMercenary Compendium(Bad Badger Games, 2024), pp. 12, 56
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Mercenary Compendium (Bad Badger Games, 2024), p. 56. Art by the Bad Badger Games team.
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