Luthis Hawkfist

Luthis Hawkfist was an eldritch knight fighter that eventually became a traveling lawyer, and owner of the largest law firm in the continent.

> "If someone tries to get in my way, I'm gonna smash right through ya. Don't care who you are, because I don't take shit from anyone! If that building didn't want to be destroyed, it should've stepped aside!"
>
> - Luthis Hawkfist

## History

### Before The 1,000 Mile March

#### Early Life

Luthis Amberwood was born and raised in a city with his parents, Geoffrey and Elena, and eventually his younger sister Lillian. His parents were both renowned wizards in his home city, with his father in a high position of power. He and his sister were taught lessons in the arcane starting from a young age, readying them to take over their parents' positions once they died. While Lillian was well-behaved and followed her parents' teachings closely, Luthis was always a problem child, constantly getting into trouble and always hating his arcane studies. His interests lied primarily in physical combat, which his parents always discouraged due to considering it barbaric and uncivilized. Despite this, he always found interest in famous martial combatants and stories of immensely strong heroes saving towns from monsters. One interest he and his parents both shared was the 1,000 Mile March, with his parents secretly hoping that one of their children would some day be able to traverse it, though Luthis believed he could do so through might more than magic.

#### Education

At age 10, having consistently fallen behind his sister and his classmates in his arcane studies, his parents decided he needed proper discipline, but were too busy to provide it themselves. They made contact with an arcane boarding school program at the Elemental Academy, arranging plans to send him there to hopefully iron out his problems. What most who sent their children there were unaware of, was that the school was incredibly heavy on discipline. If a child went out of line from what the school expected, they were harshly punished. Naturally, this put Luthis in hot water with many teachers and other school staff during his tenure. The physical punishment was never serious to him due to his innate pain insensitivity, but the trauma of being yelled at and berated wore down on him over time. His primary solace in the school was a friend he had made within it, another trouble-making child that refused to conform, a gnomish boy named Sinlin Billowdust. The two of them would often spend their time getting into trouble and causing problems for others, snickering to each other as they ran and hid to avoid being caught. The professor in charge of their class was often the subject of and foil to most of their plans.

#### The Fire Incident

Luthis spent three years at the school until all their mischief compounded into a true problem one day, after a plan to prank their professor went awry. Luthis had convinced Sinlin to set up the prank, which he faltered in and ended up completely waterlogging several important scrolls in the professor's office. With Luthis staying hidden, Sinlin was the only one caught when the professor heard the commotion. Lashing out in anger, the professor hit Sinlin hard. With the yelling and threats of what he'd do to both Sinlin and Luthis, as he knew Luthis was be involved, Luthis knew he had to do something. Instinctively, Luthis threw a bolt of fire at the professor from his hiding place. The bolt missed, but struck one of the bookshelves in the professor's office, igniting it and starting a fire. Enraged, the professor attempted to seize both of them and get out before the fire spread, but Luthis continued to fight back, allowing Sinlin to break free of the professor's grasp. With the fire having grown in the intervening minutes, the professor managed to corner Sinlin against the railing of the staircase outside his office. In one final attempt to help his friend, Luthis harnessed his anger and directed it at the professor, coating his fist with fire as it struck him. The force of this punch was enough to knock the professor off balance and send him tumbling off the edge of the railing, down to the floor below. After staring in fear momentarily at the blood pooling from the professor at the bottom of the stairs, Luthis and Sinlin both ran to the nearest window and leapt out, feather falling out of the building. After that, they ran until they were far away from the school, and kept going into the streets so they could hide.

#### Living With Sinlin

Knowing their absence would be noted and connected to the fire and sudden death of a professor, they fled the city and went into a nearby town, where they stayed for 3 years, working for a living and staying at the local inn or, when money was light, camping in the woods during the night. Luthis took on the surname alias of Hawkfist in fear of being recognised. Eventually, Sinlin desired to return home and see his family, hoping the situation had been forgotten enough for him to get back in safely. He left one morning, leaving a note for Luthis as he was too afraid to say goodbye personally. Without the only friend he had, Luthis turned his sights back to the March, now hell-bent on going down it. He spent the next 6 years in preparation, honing his martial ability and supplementing it with magic, also improving the move he had used to kill his professor along the way.

### The 1,000 Mile March

Before entering the march, Luthis befriended Johnny Kritz, Roug, Uncomfortable, Drago, Stanfal Kental, and Delmuth Magfirr. Together the group traversed the trail, until Luthis was eventually captured and imprisoned with Rust. They helped one another escape, and reunited with the rest of the party. Throughout their quest, Rust and Luthis formed a close bond, with Luthis eventually learning that Rust was in fact a gnome named Ezra wearing a suit of sentient animated armor named Rust. The quest ended with Luthis and his friends defeating the trials within the Emerald Tower and ending the enchantment over the 1,000 Mile March.

### After The 1,000 Mile March

#### Honkotan

Luthis headed north to Utolar along with everyone in the group except for Johnny to go live with Beret. However, various bounty hunters looking to capture Ezra forced him to go into hiding, and Luthis decided to find a safe place for Ezra to hide in. Using Beret's life savings, they purchased Ezra a large home in the well guarded city of Honkotan. Luthis personally escorted Ezra to Honkotan where Sky and some of her minions attempted to kidnap Ezra, but only managed to kidnap Luthis instead. Ezra managed to get himself arrested for protection as Luthis escaped, and Ezra is put on trial for theft. He is sentenced to be executed, but Luthis decides to act as Ezra's legal advisor, and successfully works his sentence down to the dismemberment of a limb and permanent house arrest. As his legal counsel, Luthis was also able to accept part of the punishment, offering to dismember his own limb. After the dismemberment, Ezra replaced the missing limb with Srack's prosthetic limb.

#### Law Career

Having secured permanent safety for Ezra, as well as his knack for manipulating the law, Luthis traveled back to Utolar to apply for a position at the Oasis Law Firm. After being rejected by the head of the firm, Dripig Drobou, he met Abahaw Lofo. Abahaw was currently having all of his real-estate assets ceased by Dripig, and decided to team up with Luthis to find a way to get revenge on him. They both run into Bud Lou and Mr. Dinklepuss, previous friends of Luthis from the 1,000 Mile March, who are also interested in helping. They devise a plan to exploit Drobou's gambling addiction by stealing and replacing his decoding book that lets him determine the racer that is rigged to win. Bud stole the book, while Mr. Dinklepuss sold Drobou a fake decoder. His fake decoder caused him to bet for the wrong person, and Luthis replaced one of the racers to ensure that the right person wins. Abahaw attempted to decode the rigged winner from the stolen book, but ran out of time and the race began. Early on in the race, the rigged winner was revealed to be the racer that Luthis replaced, and Abahaw rushed to bet his entire life savings on the racer as Luthis tried to win the race. Luthis barely managed to win, financially crippling Drobou and making the group incredibly rich. Luthis bribes the rest of the Oasis Law Firm partners to remove Drobou from the firm and instill him as the new owner.

#### Blair

During the Blair Ablaze campaign, Luthis was introduced to the party by Frank Goldman in an attempt to stop Seyuh. Having previously represented Seyuh in a court of law, Luthis knew he could lure Seyuh into a trap using a magic item as bait. Knowing about Ezra's project to reconstruct Rust, he put word though various shady connections he had from his law career about it so Seyuh would steal it. Meanwhile, the party of Blair Ablaze set a trap in Ezra's house, ambushing Seyuh upon his arrival. Luthis assisted in the fight, which eventually led to Seyuh's capture and public execution.

## Personality

Luthis was extraordinarily confident in his abilities, and usually tended to favor brute force over intellect. He had a tendency to ramble, with little regard for criticisms against him. He owed no allegiance towards anyone aside from his closest friends, and spoke towards everyone as his inferiors. He also had a tendency to not take full responsibility for death and destruction caused by his actions, instead shifting the blame on the people and things he destroyed. Overall, he is overconfident and often arrogant, and puts too little faith or trust in anyone.

## Trivia

* Much of Luthis' appearance is based off of Rhett McLaughlin from the American comedy duo Rhett & Link, although this was only after the player of Luthis, Scott, decided to use an image of Rhett dry-heaving as his token for the campaign. Initially, Luthis was intended to have a completely different appearance. The image used was from episode 46 of the 10th season of the popular internet talk show Good Mythical Morning. The episode was titled "Will It Burrito? Taste Test" and was an entry into one of the series most popular recurring video formats where they replace ingredients in a popular dish with other ingredients that are typically not associated with the dish. The exact frame the screenshot was taken from occurs at around 12:19 into the video, when Rhett and Link are attempting to consume a pig uterus burrito, and Link begins to vomit profusely into his barf bucket, inducing Rhett to dry heave and suddenly lean forward.
* Luthis was initially a sorcerer fighter multiclass, but was later retconned to be an eldritch knight fighter due to it being more befitting for his backstory.
* Luthis made an appearance in the Bear campaign - a campaign in a Dungeons & Dragons setting created by Spark - as a friendly player character played by Scott.

## Appendix

### Appearances

* The 1,000 Mile March
* Blair Ablaze
* Better Call Luthis Part 1
* Better Call Luthis Part 2