Thunt

An upper-noble-class tax-collector for Laewendas who has found an item that renders him completely unkillable — not powerful, not magical himself, "just a normal man," but utterly immune to harm. Per the Ghoul of Gythfield, his own men have shot him with crossbows and the pyromancer Simon threw fire at him as a joke, and he has never been so much as scathed. He travels with a band of brigand enforcers. Because he cannot be killed, the only counter is to find and take his item or, failing that, contain him — bury or cage him (the empty child-cage was floated). Rusty's advice: ignore him until the very end of the raid on The Snatcher's Cave.

(Named "Thunt"/"Thunt" by the GM in Session 41, spoken a handful of times; the unkillable item's nature is unknown.)

Session 41 (mentioned)

• Named by Rusty as one of the cave's two true dangers (with the Hat Man) — though dangerous only in that he cannot be stopped, not in what he can do.
• The party resolved to contain rather than kill him, and to look for the item that makes him immortal — a possible tie to the dead-gods / immortality threads.

Session 43 (in person)

• Seen, and unkillable as promised. A pudgy, unarmoured, middle-aged commoner with a letter-opener stiletto (1 damage) and a protective "bubble" that turns aside everything — crossbows, fire, claws, Shadow Blade (psychic/thunder/silver/piercing), ropes, grapples, and poison; he doesn't even dodge. Has 27 Luck rolls a day, trips foes prone, and only ever stabs back for 1 when attacked. Detect Magic shows he is himself no great source of magic (a cantrip or a few attuned items at most) — the source of his invulnerability stays hidden ("because I am God").
• A villain, not a bad guy. "I collect taxes and I'm greedy. I'm smug because I can't be killed, but…" — he refuses to fight once the party stops, scavenges only raw coin from the dead tents (leaving the heavy loot), and is let go under a truce rather than killed (no one could kill, rope, grapple or poison him).
• Laewendas's empty coffers. Declined Jex's pitch to be hired against Laewendas — "her coffers run dry; she spent every penny of what she's robbed and every penny of what was there before" — admitting he keeps "a sliver of what I collect."
• Identified the stitched woman's maker as the inventor Victor / Dr. Voltz, and showed a flicker of real sorrow at her.