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Rothgar of the Hundred Titles

Although we have few stories about him, we do have Rothgar's hundred titles--and they tell quite a tale about him. It can be surmised from the titles themselves that he led an unusual but nonetheless disreputable life, interspersed with occasional bright spots, suggesting that he is one of the most realistic characters ever written into Battal.

Rothgar acquired titles throughout his life, and as such he was only referred to as "of the Hundred Titles" posthumously--at the time he married Vaxin the Tiny, he was known as "Rothgar of the 72 Titles."

He's also famous for "Random Rothgar titles," a website that displays often humorous titles submitted by users.

List of Rothgar's Known Titles:

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1. The Decent Guy
2. The Lice Free
3. Who Bathes Semi-regularly
4. The Uncleanly-Shaven
5. The Non-Foul
6. Wielder of Crumpets
7. The Froggish
8. The Notable
9. The While-Not-Great-Certainly-Not-Forgettable
10. The Acceptably-Handsome
11. Of the Neatly-Trimmed Fingernails
12. Of a Decent Singing Voice
13. The Wind in the Bushes
14. Slayer of the Seven Slayers of the Seven Players of the Seven Fiddles
15. Hidden Below Windows
16. Prince of Pinch
17. Taker of Naps
18. Giver of Whaps
19. Linker of Sausage
20. The Pink Yesterday
21. The Yellow Tomorrow
22. The Egg Filcher
23. The Undisputed Rothgar
24. The Big and Scary
25. King for a Day
26. Hand of the North
27. Cracked of Boot
28. Crooked of Hat
29. The Air Breather
30. The Undeserving of So Many Goddamned Titles About Mundane Things
31. Bad Touch
32. Thinker of Thoughts
33. Eater of Quilp Cheese
34. Chaser of Drinks
35. Walker of the Walk
36. Talker of the Talk
37. The Often Described But Never Truly Understood
38. He of More Names Than Really Seems Necessary When One Thinks Of It
39. Item Law 318
40. Cousin of Garroth
41. The Earl of James-Jones
42. Who Was Pretender to the Title of Earl of James-Jones
43. Earl of Sweeping Broom
44. The Easily-Cheated (used only once)
45. The Attacker of Those Who Cheat Him And Mock Him For It
46. With All Those Goddamn Titles
47. Wielder of The Peanuty Spikey Hammer
48. The Sultan of Sloth
49. The Unemployed
50. The Now-employed
51. The Employee of the Month
52. The Freely-Spending
53. The Festival-Goer
54. The Midsummer-Night Drinker of Ale
55. The Singer of Songs After Drinking Ale
56. The Breaker of Windows When Drunk
57. Who Accidentally Once Wore Vaxin's Clothing To Comical Effect When Drunk
58. Who Could Not Remove The Incredibly Tight Clothing But Instead Got It Stuck Around His Head
59. The Recently-Arrested For Having Broken Windows And Creating A Public Disturbance, However Amusing It Was
60. The Recently-Paroled
61. Who Denies Having Done A Thing
62. Of The Bestselling Tell-All Book
63. Who Dislikes Any Titles Relating To The Events of Midsummer-Night
64. Of the Fen
65. Of the Glade
66. Of the Mountain
67. Who Obtained Three Titles While Fleeing the Hamlet in Direct Violation of His Parole
68. The Great
69. The Wise
70. Of Impeccable Taste
71. Who Attempted to Improve His Chances with Vaxin by Giving Himself Inappropriately Positive Titles
72. Of the 72 Titles
73. Formerly Known as Rothgar of the 72 Titles
74. The Vaxin-Marryer
75. The Husband of Vaxin
76. The Not-Nearly-As-Tiny-As-Vaxin-But-Still-Somewhat-Tiny-In-His-Own-Right
77. The Lucubratious
78. Who Was Caught Beating Up Children And Writing Down The Way They Described It Afterwards
79. The Twice-Arrested
80. The Twice-Paroled
81. The Everchanging
82. The Nightmare of Checkerboards
83. The Second Sweeper of the Midnight City
84. Eater of Plums
85. Defender of Irrational Dogmatism
86. Furniliar's Bane
87. Co-Leader of the Albrosian Alliance
88. The Strategic Genius (after he showed the Alliance his latest plans)
89. That Moron We Can't Believe We Trusted (after the Alliance tried out his plans)
90. Who Decided To Fight Yar the Sorcerial
91. Who Will Certainly Defeat Yar the Sorcerial in Battle
92. Yar-fighter
93. Who Heroically Died Saving Vaxin the Tiny from Yar the Sorcerial
94. Who Stupidly Died in a Vain Attempt to Save Vaxin the Tiny (given soon afterwards)
95. Who Wasn't Such A Bad Guy Now That He's Gone
96. Who Will Possibly Be Missed
97. Martyr of the Alliance
98. Who Had A Lot Of God-damned Titles
99. Whose Death Necessitated A Counting of Titles
100. Of the Hundred Titles

Descendants

While his titles make no mention of them (which really says something about the guy in of itself) we know from the various writings concerning Vaxin the Tiny that the pair had six children, who, due to their parentage, where given titles upon or shortly after birth. They were Alexis the Two-Months Late, Ebon the Incessant Crier, Adrianna Whose Teething Left Scars, Me'ak Whose Name Was The Cause of Much Family In-Fighting, Rothgar Junior Whose Life Will Not Be Easy and Robert Who Likes Cheese. The children grew up to be somewhat notable people, however not quite as epic as their parents, possibly due to their somewhat un-impressive early titles.

Difficulties in research

Rothgar is mentioned only in passing in Book 13 and a Half, which does go into great detail about his wife Vaxin. Due to this, there are very few sources of information on Rothgar, much of the discussion regarding him having been based around mostly idle speculation. This was slightly remedied with the release of the Wizbits Elemenstor Battle expansion Carrion: The Marksman. However, it was not the full set of 100 cards (one for each title) that gave Rothgar's rabid fan base the information they so desired (in fact, due to a printing error, many of the cards featured the same, rather unflattering, caption: "ARUGHAGH!" -Rothgar's Last Words) but rather the send away book The Wonders of Rothgar: Carrion: The Marksman Designer's Guide: What We Did And Why We Did It, which now featches premium prices on the collectors market.

List of Rothgar's Non-Canon Titles

Despite the lack of canonical stories, Rothgar's many descriptive titles make him a popular character in Fan Fiction, where convenience, creativity, or laziness on the part of fans has resulted in a number of additional titles. This is similar to the conundrum created by the 100 Swords of Sepathok discussed here. See also Rothgar Sydrome

1. The Fresh Toasted
2. A Warrior named Rothgar (you say the whole thing)
3. The Thee
4. The much better character then Bill Brasky
5. Mister-san
6. Who was the Real Slim Shady
7. He who Shot J.R.
8. He Who Can Simply Walk Into The Chasm of Eternal Sorrow
9. He Who When Donates Blood, Refuses the Syringe and Simply Asks for a Sword and a Bucket
10. He Who is Unsurprisingly Rash and in Horrible Pain
11. He Who Once Ate Fifty Eggs in an Hour
12. He Who Once Punched a Hole Through a Cow Just to See Through to the Other Side
13. He Who Once Looked A Gift Horse In The Mouth And Called It "Stupid."
14. He who's not a Pheasant Plucker but the Pheasant Plucker's son, but keeps Plucking Pheasants till the Pheasant Plucker comes. (don't say aloud)
15. He Whose Primary Export is Pain
16. He Whose Secondary Export is Grain
17. He Whose Tertiary Export is a Rather Sticky, Yellow Oozing Liquid
18. He Whose Primary Import is Sweet Lovin'
19. He Whose Secondary Import is Mead.
20. He Who Once Round-House Kicked Chuck Norris in the Face. Twice.
21. He Who Pities The Fool
22. Moderator
23. Who once flipped out and killed an entire village just because some kid dropped a spoon
24. Smearer of Paps (Occationally mistaken for cannon, although history has shown us that it lost out to Giver of Whaps)
25. The slayer of the player of Slayer music
26. The noun of place to verb for adjective madlibs.
27. Who was probably about 1000x times as manly as could ever be captured on paper
28. Who is want to take Macintosh keyboards, shove them down peoples throats, and shout "How do ya like them apples?"
29. Disciple of Rothrigar
30. Who was all that and a bag of chips

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