Keep your hand on your axe and your eyes upon the road...

AXEMAN (#6/29, #37/365) [POT]

SKILL: 8

STAMINA: 8

ATTACKS: 1

WEAPON: Battleaxe

ARMOUR: Leather or Chainmail Cuirass

DAMAGE MODIFIER: +1 to Damage Roll

HABITAT: Towns, Towns (sewers), Plains, Forest

NUMBER ENCOUNTERED: 1

TYPE: Humanoid

REACTION: Unfriendly-Hostile

INTELLIGENCE: High

The Right of Dispute is common on Titan, with various interlopers, such as Black Knights, formally challenging wayfarers for passage onwards along the road. A more urban equivalent is the AXEMAN, usually some hulking bully with a battleaxe and a bad attitude, who has set up shop on a backstreet or side-alley to pick fights on the flimsiest of pretexts, with any passersby that look like weak and easy prey. As well as their signature weapon, an Axeman will wear a black leather tunic or chainmail vest and often carry a handaxe as a sidearm. Some will also have one or two throwing axes strapped in positions of easy access (Throwing Axes have the range of thrown Medium Objects, do damage as per a Handaxe, and are governed by the Axe or Thrown Special Skill, whichever is higher).

Some Axemen return to the wild, patrolling a lonely road on the plains or through the woods, as originally they may have been a woodsman or exiled barbarian, but they are primarily a feature of large semi-lawless settlements (and thought to be rogue butchers or unemployed executioners). Indeed, the concept of the urban Axeman thug has become so ubiquitous they are one of the six standard fighter types included in an enchanted Ring of Warrior-Summoning! One famous Axeman was the renegade barbarian Dax the Axe, who joined the Scorpion Guild of Assassins, such was his skill with the hatchet's blade.