Lissa asked this question, and provided some interesting evidence. But as the thread progressed, it became less and less clear who Charsi's true father was.

Let's look at the facts of these two.

Both are blacksmiths, one working for Rogues that happened to come into town (Gris) and the other working for Rogues that are part of the Monastery (Charsi).

When you walk up to Gris and click on him, he says in a Scottish Brouge, "What can I do for ya?" When you walk up to Charsi on occasion, she says, "What can I do for ya?" without the Scottish Brouge.

Both wear aprons, although Charsi wears a bit less under it. :o (get that smirk off your face Occhi! )

Charsi was born from Barbarians and Griswold looks like he could be a Barbarian (an old, fat, dumpy one, but a Barbarian none-the-less).

Will the world ever know?

Charsi is the product of a wild evening between Griswold and a very drunken Rogue, some years before Griswold had to retire from fighting and take up weapon smith duties.

Gris is from up north: note the similarity between his speech and the elder in act V. It's the Scottish brogue thing.

Charsi has the body of an athlete or weight lifter, and the voice of a Valley Girl Bimbo from the Sherman Oaks Mall. She wears the a leather apron next to her skin because

a) it feels good
b) it distracts the attention of male customers when she overcharges them for repairs
c) if makes some Assassins excited to see her thus, hence they do not pay attention to the outrageous prices she charges for repairing Assassin Weapons.
d) Amazons with bows find her a bit of a brazen hussy, and Sorceresses are envious of her easy confidence and obvious attractiveness to many of the warrior types.
e) Necros find her uncouth and "trailer trashy," preferring the company of Sorceresses and Assassins to busty bimbos from the Valley.

Have I covered everything?

PS: I think she is Kashya's lover now that Blood Raven is dead, but who knows?

Kashya does not "need" a lover. She has a wagon full of (sex) slaves...I mean mercenaries.

"Who's my daddy?" Today on our show we have a young woman named Charsi. She was taken in by Rogues when she was just a little girl. She is believed to be of Barbarian ancestry, but we know nothing else about her.

Griswold: Ach! She's my lassie, Montel! I'd know my kin anywhere!

Snotspill: Hey, you that one that kill all! Wait, you don't kill all! You pull boy from us! HAHAHAHA!! We poison your leg! HAHAHA!

Snotspill, please, don't antagonize the other guests.

Snotspill: Hey, you that one that my daughter! Hubba hubba hubba! No such thing as incest in Hell!

Charsi: AHH!! Certin! Montel, who let him in here?!

Security, please escort Snotspill from the building.

Snotspill: Hey, you that one that *BBBZZTTT* Ecchh... taz....er...b...add! *gets hauled away*

Ogden: Griswold, give it up, you're not the da!

Griswold: Then who is?! You? HA!

Ogden: No, but Garda thinks she knows who it is!

Garda: Me tink is BAR.

And let's bring out our next guest...

King Bubbles: *is led onto the stage and shown where to sit* Me want more free food from green room!!! BAR SMASH!!

Please, King Bubbles, don't smash the set! You'll get more food later.

King Bubbles: BAR SMASH!!! SMASH!!! SMASH!!!

Griswold: Ach, don't make me whup ye!

Griswold, Bubbles, please! This isn't Springer!

Charsi: Who's that?

Someone has just walked out on stage!

King Sparta: Dis not little Kings' room...

It's ChariSparta, ladies and gentlemen!

King Skull: Sparta, you find little Kings' room yet? Skull hafta go bad. Skull already doing the pee-pee dance.

King Sparta: Dis wrong room, Skull. Me tink dis is bar. Everyone fighting.

King Oof: Dis not bar. Occhi not here.

Audience, more people for paternity tests!

King Animal: Oof find Skull and Sparta yet? Animal needs go, too. Someone put someting in the brownies back there.

And now our crack team of scientists shall take all these kings into custody to find out who's the daddy! GO GO GO GO GO!

And so, a team of 10 wimpy jujumen crashed through the roof of the studio and took the mighty BARs into custody. Each was given a paternity test.

Are we ready to hear the results of the test?

Audience: YEAH!!!

King Bubbles is... not the father!
King Skull is... not the father!
King Animal is... not the father!
King Oof is... not the father!
King Sparta is... not the father!
Griswold is... not the father!

Audience: *gasps!*

Yes, audience, nobody's the father! You see, nobody quite knows how BARs reproduce. They just do. For this reason we've found genetic testing to be unreliable in testing the kinship of BAR families. Except in cases where there is no BARbarian blood! Charsi's not a BAR!

But, audience, there was one more man tested. And he's standing on stage talking to you right now. He is the father.

Audience: *GASPS!*

Yes, audience, the father is the man who has been standing behind the other guests for the entire episode! You probably didn't even notice him, but he's been talking to you the entire time. Because he didn't have a mic, you didn't hear him. He is....

Woody Allen!

Charsi: AHH!!! *faints*

(Deepest apologies to Kings Sparta, Oof, Skull, Animal, Bubbles, and to Occhidiangela, Montel, and Woody Allen.)

Lissa, Occhi, and Dalgrak as themself. LemmingofGlory as Montel.

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