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13. Hob Gadling

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Hob is one of the characters that has most recently climbed his way up toward the top of my favorites list. He flew pretty under the radar early on after we brought him back to Z'onn Z'orr in the first few weeks of the campaign, though given that we brought him back from the magical land of Brucke der Dunen, I should've realized much sooner had much impact he'd ultimately have on Bloodfruit.

In fairness, Bloodfruit has reason to avoid him; he took up a position as Z'onn Z'orr's resident blacksmith, a position that is very helpful but also involves such heavy use of iron that it would drive away even the most careless of fae. It was specifically a need for his services that ultimately drove them to first start to interact, and man did it click between them immediately.

Like I said in the initial posts of this topic, in a lot of ways I wanted to make Bloodfruit directly opposite of Obrov (which succeeded in some ways, less so in others). Obrov was a man who'd been beaten down so terribly that he was ultimately left faithless, and ironically ended up in hell. I've mentioned it a bit earlier in this ranking, but Bloodfruit is fully faithful, specifically to the seven immortal(ish) beings known as The Endless: Destiny, Dream, Death, Destruction, Desire, Despair, Delirium. She spends a good bit of her free time in the chapel, often napping when not praying toward the seven, but wouldn't find out until much later that under that same roof was one of Dream's oldest friends.

As a result of a bet made between Dream and his sister Death, Hob the human was given eternal life for as long as he wanted it, with the option to relieve himself of it every 100 years. He told this story to a startled Bloodfruit, who immediately became drawn in by his tale and terrified of his later suggestion that the Dream that was might not be the same Dream that is now.

What was initially a meeting out of basic necessity eventually blossomed into a real friendship, as she continually went back to hear more of his stories, even making an agreement that, should they both still be around for the next 100-year meeting, she would accompany him to meet Dream for herself.

Hint for #12: This character is not a human