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12. Wanerstrand
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It is very infrequent that Scar introduces a character that has a picture but also is not a comics character. There are hundreds and hundreds of characters in this campaign and nearly all of them are from comics - whether a long-time person like Joker or a very bit character like Pixie. And then you have the original characters that are given MtG art and put into the world for us to find.

Wanerstrand is a... medicine man? He lives in Skartaris, the land beneath the surface of the Earth, where the world circles around a central sun (like a Dyson Sphere). Skartaris is known as the world where the Warlord reigns, and Wanerstrand is a citizen of this world.

The first time we found him, he was just running his shop. Wanerstrand can speak surface, but not very well. He does his best, which means that any sort of colloquialism we use is lost on him, and half of the normal words as well. He tries to understand us, sometimes fails to, but if he does fail to, he then insists that HE is right when we are not.

Some times later, Wanerstrand returned, assigned by the Warlord to be the... car mechanic. There are no vehicles like that in Skartaris normally. It's like a medieval fantasy type place. But one came with us from the surface so Wanerstrand was put in charge. It was rather confusing when he asked us to find a Crankshaft Sprocket. Turns out he was just reading the car manual.

Wanerstrand is, without a doubt, the funniest character in this campaign to me. I have laughed on all of his appearances, and in some of them, until I cried. Scar can just seamlessly shift into this impossibly foreign character who is just insanely cheerful and hilarious, who can occasionally burst into these phrases of genius (not very often), but also speak of horrible things just matter-of-factly. He asked us to go find his son, Goat. He also asked us to find his daughter, Goatt. Both are pronounced the same. We spent minutes of session time each time trying to determine who he was talking about. Goatt. Two t.

Even typing this up, I am laughing in remembrance. Most campaigns are only original characters - this campaign is mostly existing comic characters, and Scar's take on them. But when an original character does come around - Scar goes all-out. And Wanerstrand will forever be some of the best laughs I have had playing a tabletop RPG.

Hint for 11: This character smokes