Hey InDarkestKnight-- Here's a connection idea, if you're interested:<br/><br/>I don't think that Mournecutter would have been caught dead at a gladiatorial match willingly, but if it's not pushing the bounds of probability too much, maybe she saw him at a match when she was on a mission for Callistria's zealots in her youth.  They would have been undercover doing all manner of things she wouldn't personally approve of.  So she would have found it particularly interesting if she recognized him a few years later, a free man now, in a tavern where she was performing, settling a raucous crowd that was threatening to overrun a theatrical performance with a full-out, armed-to-the-teeth, blood-spilling bar-room melee between a passel of prideful-- and well-armed-- dwarves and a freebooting company of mercenaries a couple ales past well-behaved.<br/><br/>As part of the theater entourage, she would have lost out on money, sure-- but there was the distinct threat that the actors would have been caught in the midst of it, losing out on more than theater sets if axes and arrows started flying unheeded.  What say Victor had a historical connection to a mercenary officer, told him a joke in goblin-- which raised the hackles of the dwarves despite defusing the mercs-- and then made a silvertongued speech to the dwarves about some grand piece of war-valor he'd heard of their company, scrubbing a bit of shine back onto their honor.  A free keg of ale from the tavern keeper then quieted the tongues, and with a little skillful improvisation from the actors, the whole mood of the place changed to a revel, and Victor drank for free... and the tavern made up more profit than that sacrificed keg's worth in tips.<br/><br/>Mournecutter, afterwards, may have approached him in appreciation for his selflessness at defusing the situation.  Thoughts on that?