Etherton Scrubner

Etherton Scrubner was the seventh of fourteen children born to a pair of share-croppers dwelling in the vicinity of West Fethil approximately 15 years ago. The Scrubner clan has a long and less-than-distinguished history of subsistence farming in the region dating back many years. Despite this dreadfully lackluster familial occupation, the Scrubners do have one claim to notoriety. A long deceased relative was one of a handful of Elothninians brave enough¹ to accompany Prabil Worthis into the as yet wild and untamed Fethil region on one of his later journeys of exploration.

Young Etherton seemed destined to carry on the family's traditional occupations of farming, producing large, unwieldy broods of ill-behaved red-heads, and drinking far more ale than is advisable, having demonstrated neither a particular aptitude for school nor an especial ambition to succeed. However, at the age of fourteen Etherton, as with so many young men from the Fethil before him, was conscripted into the Imperial Army.

Unlike some of his comrades, Etherton was rather favorably disposed to joining the army, believing it would be quite a lark to, in his words, "kill an elf, an make 'tits head in ta h'hat." Unfortunately Etherton's ambition was not to be realized as he was stationed not at the front, but at the West Fethil garrison.

In the year since his conscription, Scrubner has shown the makings of a passable soldier at best, with Quartermaster Gorn reporting, "Scrubner...? Oh, ta kid wit' ta funny voice...yah he's alrigh' I s'pose...ain't got a particular handsome face , tho'..." Every Sunday evening, Scrubner ventures out to the family farm to take part in a hearty bowl of homemade mush, which is a great highlight of the lad's week.
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¹ Recent examination of court records dating back to the time of Prabil Worthis show that the Scrubner in question, one Jededobolus Scrubner, actually journeyed with Worthis as an alternative punishment to being executed for stealing and defiling a prominent farmer's livestock.