Philhipé

Philhipé
Race	Kobold
Class	Ranger
Affiliation	Formerly: Kobold Bandits Formerly: Yumi's Band of Thieves
Gender	Male
Status	Unknown
Alias	Pete
Actor	Rob, Deadbones
Campaigns	Band of Thieves

Philhipé (/fɪlipe/), or Pete, was a Kobold Ranger who joined the party in Band of Thieves after he was hugged by Gracias.

Characteristics

Appearance

Philhipé looks like a standard Kobold with brown tinted fur-like rock. He wears a crimson scarf loosely around his neck and a single eyepatch. The use of the eyepatch is to keep an eye dilated for when he must enter caves, or poorly lighted areas, meaning that it can be placed on either eye. He carries a Blunderbuss with him.

During his time with Yumi's Thieves, he trecked through a Blood Snake forest, and was critically shot in the leg via an accidental arrow from Gracias. Philhipé quickly killed and used the corpse of a Blood Snake to create a makeshift tourniquet around his wound that would have otherwise crippled him.

Personality

Philhipé is a rather laid-back Kobold, who is known for his combat skills, ability to advise the party, and generally "bad-assery" when faced with troublesome situations.

Relationships

Philhipé was originally seen to have very work orientated relationship with the other four Kobolds he worked with when he was known as Pete. While he respected his boss' wishes and commands, he eventually abandoned them after befriending Gracias and joined Yumi's Thieves.

With Yumi's Band of Thieves, Philhipé was closest to Gracias. Their friendship began when Gracias hugged him and both expressed their feelings of not wanting a fight. Throughout the rest of the Thieves' mission, the two grew closer as Philhipé listened to Gracias' advice and looked out for him, while Gracias repeatedly waited for Philhipé and attempted to save and defend him. With Yumi, Philhipé respected her authority as the leader, and showed great loyalty to her. Even prior to joining her thieves, Philhipé embraced Yumi in a bear hug as a thanks for repecting the Kobolds way of speaking. When the group of Thieves where experiencing infighting, questioning Yumi's leadership, Philhipé stood by her. In the final battle of their mission, Philhipé detonated a Sorcerer's fog to sacrifice himself to save Yumi while she was caught and surrendering. While the two did not engage much initially, Philhipé and Bumbley did eventually bond over Bumbley's new preferred nickname of K-4. Philhipé and Squinks had a sour relationship, that started off rocky as Squinks revealed a slight tint of Kobold racism.

Notable Attributes

Rabies

While Philhipé is a carrier for rabies, he himself is not affected by it. If he bites someone there is a chance they will be infected with rabies. Like most kobolds, Philhipé believes rabies isn't a bad thing, and likes to "gift" others with rabies via biting, but asks politely first.

Character Inventory

Powers & Abilities	Belongings
Traits [{Race / Kobold}] [{Class / Ranger [{Cornerstone /Humble Beginnings}] [{Attribute / Lucky}] Passives [{Passive / Kobold Rabies}] [{Templar / Aura of Strength}] Abilities [{Companion Ability / Holy Light EX}] [{Ranger / Powershot}] [{Ranger / Quickshot}] Former Abilities [{Paladin / Blessing of Strength}] [{Suncleric / Holy Light}]	Current [{Weapon / Snakehunter}] Former Belongings [{Supplies / Snake Skin Bandages}]

History

Background

Philhipé presumably lived a relatively normal Kobold life before being encountered in the Band of Thieves campaign, wearing an eye patch over left eye because he never developed natural Night Vision like other Kobolds, so he wore an eye-patch to keep one eye dilated and he thought he looked cooler. Philhipé was originally working under the Kobold boss prior to his encounter with Yumi's Band of Thieves.

Band of Thieves

During the campaign, Philhipé was originally friendly to Yumi's party before Dwarf Number Three revealed his name and the rest of the group of Kobolds he was hanging around with engaged them in combat. Philhipé hung back during the fight, casting heals on his allies until Gracias decided in a radical turn of events that he would hug the Kobold rather than fight him.

Following a lengthy conversation and an attempt to give Gracias rabies by biting him (which he thought was a good thing), Philhipé and Gracias sat back and watched the fight instead. Following the end of the encounter, Philhipé opted to join the party. At this point, he was still called Pete, but wanted to be renamed. Yumi suggested Philhipé, claiming that Philhipé's original name should not be lost entirely, and the name stuck.

Philhipé proved his worth numerous times, showing cunning and guile where needed, and proving instrumental in the defeat of the Gemlord and the Cobra King. Despite not owning any treasures or items of his own, a gift Blunderbuss from Gracias became his weapon of choice, which he was surprisingly accurate with despite his lack of depth perception.

Fate

Tragedy struck during a fight with Gwyneth Sunsword, Philhipé was separated from the group. He sacrificed himself in an attempt to save his friends, but in the process was rendered unconscious. After the rest of the party successfully escaped, he was imprisoned and transported to the Silvermine Mountains. It is unknown if Philhipé died in the prison when it collapsed, or if he somehow managed to escape the mountain in the chaos or whether he had escaped before entering the mountain. He is presumed deceased. Although if released earlier, there is a possibility Philhipé is still alive.

Trivia

• Philhipé's previous name was Pete, however his original name is not known as the name "Pete" was given to him by the Kobolds.
• Philhipé never used Blessing of Strength during Band of Thieves.
• In Porc Hunters, Philhipé's reappearance is teased when Dave is transporting a dangerous Kobold prisoner.
• In The Sunswords, there was a possibility that the party would fight a Meta Ytt that turned into Philhipé. While not actually being the character, the Ytt would look like and have some of the abilities of the real Philhipé.
• Rob has said in The New Crew behind the scenes, that Chimera and Philhipé could be one in the same.
• Philhipé may be the brother of Maelstrom.
• A story line involving Philhipé was one of the three possible story lines for The Silvermine Mountains.
  • In it, it would have been confirmed that Chimera and Philhipé were infact, the same Kobold. However, this is not confirmed in canon due to said story line not being chosen.
    • As a matter of fact, if the storyline had been chosen then Philhipé would have been dead, as revealed in The Silvermine Mountains behind the scenes.
• Philhipé inspired the new Companion system for random encounters of Season 2.
• Philhipé originally had the Paladin Abilities of Blessing of Strength and Holy Light, but this was altered when the canon abilities were established, along with his class being changed from Paladin to Ranger.
• Philhipé is the character represented on the Kobold race card.

Class: Rangers
Starting Gear	Longbow
Abilities	Augment | Powershot | Quickshot | Rapidfire | Ricochet | Volley
Player Rangers	Alessa Stonemason | Karl Landers
NPC Rangers	Philhipé