Tchk'Tchk Gulbadani
A Thri-Kreen Psion and the second of two Thri-Kreen in the group alongside Kit-Chac. In the Thri-Kreen tongue his name, Tchk'Tchk, means "Good-Good" (much as Kit-Chac calls himself simply Kreen, "People"). "Gulbadani" is not a Kreen name at all: he took it for himself when the party entered the service of House Gulbadan (see Gulbadan Estate), binding his chosen identity to that house. After the Inundation of Raam, which killed The Padshah and left the Gulbadan faction headless, the name he adopted, and the house standing behind it, are in jeopardy. What that comes to mean for a Thri-Kreen who deliberately chose to carry it remains to be seen.
Where Salt favours utility and healing, Tchk'Tchk is the party's control specialist, leaning hard on Command and telekinesis to dictate where an enemy is allowed to stand.
Status: Alive
First appears:
Relationships
- Kit-Chac: the other Thri-Kreen in the party
- Salt: fellow psion; their control and support spells overlap, which leads to occasional good-natured toe-treading in combat
- Gulbadan Estate: House Gulbadan, whose name he adopted as his own when the party entered its service
- The Padshah: head of the Gulbadan faction, now dead in the Inundation of Raam, leaving the Gulbadani name he chose to carry imperilled
Notable moments
- Episode 11: Won the sand elemental fight. The creature was immune to stunned, could not be knocked prone or pushed (earth instability), and shrugged off Web, but it had no defence against Command. Tchk'Tchk exploited that gap ruthlessly, casting Command turn after turn to pin the elemental inside Pterrence's Cloud of Daggers, and using Telekinetic Propel to lift it five feet above the daggers and drop it back in when it tried to leave. Pterrence credited him with the win outright.
Notes
The transcript label "erendor (Tchk'Tchk)" is Tchk'Tchk Gulbadani. Also rendered "Chick Chick" at the table.
Name meaning: in Kreen, Tchk'Tchk = "Good-Good." The surname Gulbadani is adopted, not Kreen, and its future is tied to the fate of House Gulbadan after the Inundation of Raam.