Gamba
Trickster of a troll if ever there was one, Gamba breathe and bleed the dark art of voodoo. In his youth he struck a deal with a malevolent spirits that to this day has great influence over the mystic's life.
Information
- Player: Bovel
- Character Full Name: Gamba of Gurubashi
- Character In-Game Name: Gamba
- Nickname(s): Papa Gamba, Zul'Gamba, Gamba'fon
- Association(s): Formerly Gurubashi, voodoo practitioners
- Race: Jungle Troll
- Class: Mystic
- Age: 39
- Sex: Male
- Hair: Black
- Eyes: Red and always bloodshot
- Weight: 114 kg / 251 lbs
- Height: 2,26 m / 6' 7"
Appearance
With wiry limbs on an elongated torso seeming to move beyond the limitations of joints, Gamba sometimes seem more serpent than troll. Eyes wide with a cold gaze and in it's depth a glint of possession and insanity, you'd swear this troll could stare down even the meanest cold-eye basilisk. When standing eye to eye he tend to sway his head back and forth like a cobra dancing around a soon-to-be-dead rodent.
By mixing grease, ash and clay Papa covers his facial features by painting his face to resemble a skull. Very few have seen him without the 'skull'.
Technically Gamba does not wear clothes but pieces of leather and wood fastened with countless of wraps and belts. It's in these he also fasten a variety of shrunken heads, etched bones, smelling pouches and other voodoo paraphernalia.
Personality
Practically being raised by hexxers and witch doctors has programmed his way of thinking to always revolve around superstitions of voodoo and spirits, it's all second nature to him. One might think of him as a tad mad, especially if you do not know troll culture. It's cause of that healthy fear for the dead that he acts himself for his own sake, charity and selfless caring comes rarely from Gamba. His charismatic streak has come in handy when offering services to members of other races, making his skills seem useful and worth the price but at the same time retain their respect and fear for it.
History
Born within the walls of Zul'Gurub, capital of the gurubashi tribe. Chosen at a early age to be a servant of the spirits and taught thereby though his youth was spent picking and cleaning herbs and roots as well as overseeing a series of cauldrons. Gamba wondered in silence; 'Did Jin'do start here? Where is the respect it catching and feeding rats?'
But it didn't take long until Gamba was deemed worthy to do voodoo on his own. With grand aspirations he practiced the arts with glee and a profound intuition. The day soon came when the elder mystics enforced limits on what Gamba could use and do in his spells, which left the impatient troll furious and a grave decision was made.
Gamba bode his time for a year, secretly stealing and collecting reagents for the ritual. It was performed past dusk and he called out for dark spirits and was answered, before him stood the trickster serpent Dambala, in form of a naked female with ivory braids touching to the ground. A deal was struck that night between mortal and eternal, a trade of power and wisdom for blood and spirits, and if not appeased; his very own.
The others finally found out that Gamba was the one stealing sacred bloodvine among other things and was brought in front of the elders. For invoking the anger of the spirits and decades of bad luck for the tribe he was to be decapitated. When executioners came the cage was untouched but empty and their prisoner long gone, leaving only the molt of a snake behind.
Goblins of the Steamwheedle Cartel enlightened Gamba that his skills could be useful for non-trolls as well and that few of his people were willing to share voodoo with outsiders. So in the years to come he traveled the continent, offered his services in exchange for anything he needed to survive; food, clothing, glass jars. A few unlucky and unwary have come to pay with blood or even their life.
During a longer stay in one of his hidden camps in the Sacred Vale, Gamba noticed that something or rather someone snuck into his camp at night and stole his things, not only food but voodoo paraphernalia also. Bemused with the show of disrespect Gamba set up a trap one night and slept with one eye open. He had caught a bloodscalp female, that after a few questions seemed just as eager for voodoo as himself. Papa Gamba then offered the girl, Marwaz a deal just as sinister as the one he himself had struck. Her spirit was in his grasp until the day she delivered her firstborn to him. Marwaz agreed.
Over a decade has passed since Gamba snared Marwaz, who has been his only companion apart from his hexxed bear and myriad of serpents. Now he is traveling again and letting his protégé handle herself dropping in from time to time to teach her a lesson or just harass her for the entertainment.
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