Sougle

Official image of Sougle, drawn by @grace.pptx on Instagram

Sougle Wackamole is a Player Character in Arc 5 and played by Gus.

## Description

Sougle is a Hobgoblin of the Feywild Arcane Trickster Rogue. He has black hair with a big white streak, and a "pathetic" beard. His age is unknown, but he would be the Hobgoblin equivalent of early 30s. One time, someone punched him so hard that his nose completely caved into his face, and since then, his nose is always subtlety glowing blue and flashes when he talks, instead of just glowing when he experiences strong emotions, as would be normal for a Hobgoblin.

He doesn't care about many things, with the most important exception being his shoes. He has a pair of sneakers that he has been modifying over the course of many, many years, and always looks for different types of fabric and the most rare and vibrant dyes, for which he is willing to pay a good price. By the time of Arc 5, they are a very loud, bright, and colourful pair of shoes that he likes to wear everywhere around. When someone appreciates his shoes, they immediately gain Sougle's sympathy. Apart from that, he is usually very bored, and a bit of a loser, but not sad: he is content with his mediocrity.

He always likes to have something to do with his hands.

Sougle is at the Festival of the Dawnfather's Rest because he works there in a game booth. He invented the game Ice Knife a few years prior, when he was more enthusiastic for his job, and has worked at that booth since. Because of his work, where he is stuck at the game booth every year, he never got to see the Snowdrop Competition, and wants to change that. During the festival, he hangs around at his booth, more or less lazily does his job, eats snacks, and fiddles with his shoes. Additionally, he likes to tease Smudge, a Tabaxi woman that works at another game booth, and that is his personal rival who enjoys taunting him. For example, he sometimes uses his mage hand to hold up the gnolls from her game, so that the person playing can easily win.

It is unclear what Sougle does outside of the festival.

He has an appartment in Solaris, which he claims "kind of sucks".

## Backstory

Sougle's parents come from the Feywild, but he himself has never been there, and hasn't talked to his parents in a long time, either. According to him, they do love him, but gave up on him long before he did (which also implies that he has given up on himself).

A few years prior to Arc 5, when Sougle was younger, he invented the carnival game Ice Knife, and since then, his boss, a younger, but very intense man named Waggle, tries to reawaken that spirit in him.

## Character Arc

During the arc, Sougle at first has one mayor motivation, which is to see Snowdrop. As the party tries to find answers about the time loop and looks for them in the mirror maze, Sougle is the only party member that is not willing to confront a vampire to get them. Shocked by the realisation that there are vampires in the maze, he tries to reveal this truth to the public, and gets killed during this.

While he is dead, Sougle experiences only nothingness. There was no light, and nobody waiting for him.

With the next loop, he is alive again, and physically healthy, but mentally changed. Death was painful, and unpleasant, but even worse for him is the fact that when he died, the mirror maze got closed off, but apart from that, the festival continued as planned. For him, this is a sign of how little relevance his life and death has, and he sinks into a pretty deep hole, and while his new-found friends try to look out for him, there was not a lot of happiness or excitement in him to begin with, and it got even smaller.

Another important change for Sougle after his death is that he does not want the party to split up for investigation any more. He only leaves them again when he goes to watch Snowdrop, which he had wanted to do all along, while they join Shi'elle to look out for the eirden.

Especially with Omen, Sougle forms a kind of friendship that he hasn't really had with anyone else. At first, they are just the most chaotic members of the party, but after their actions actually got Sougle killed, Omen is also the one that looks out for him the most. Sougle later tries to thank him, even though he is not very good at it, telling Omen that it is nice to meet someone who still believes in him.

## Trivia

* His free expertise is Investigation. Additionally, Sougle has expertise in Deception and Sleight of Hand from being a Rogue.
* Gus wanted to challenge himself after playing Sir Mister Person and Annie, two very mission-forward characters, by creating a character that doesn't really care.
* Sougle is the first Rogue Gus ever played.
* He is 5'7" tall, instead of, as originally intended, 5'8", because Gus decided that Sougle had to be shorter than Quinn, who is 5'8".
* After the nose incident, Sougle learned the spell Shield.
* He has the Lucky feat, which Gus is very excited for.
* Sougle is not religious.
* He is not good at giving gratitude.