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Porter Cliffbreaker is the barbarian teacher at the Aguefort Adventuring Academy.
Featured Episodes[]
| Episodes Featuring Porter |
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Fantasy High
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| Live Shows |
Fantasy High: Sophomore Year
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Fantasy High: Junior Year
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Description[]
Porter is a rocky-looking earth genasi barbarian. He is able to grow to about 15 feet tall.
He carries a war hammer.
He is very stoic and seems very unfriendly and distanced for the most part, though shows pride in his students. Due to this stony disposition however, he often makes comments and observations that come off as very creepy and foreboding, contributing to Fig Faeth's suspicion of him. Riz Gukgak's initial investigation on him concluded he 'usually just goes to the gym and stuff'.
Fantasy High[]
After the Afterlife[]
Porter is first introduced when Vice Principal Goldenhoard calls him and Jace Stardiamond to guard the crime scene in the cafeteria. Upon seeing the bodies and destruction, Jace screams in shock, but Porter is not surprised. Fig notices this and begins to become suspicious of him, which lasts well into her sophomore year.
As Riz spies on them from his hiding place in the cafeteria, he hears them talk about the incident, and how things were getting started a little earlier than usual that year. Jace wonders why something was able to be summoned, as the school has a ward protecting it from such a thing. Porter makes a comment about how sometimes things are just strong enough to break through, like walls, and Jace tells him that he sounds creepy all the time. He's trying to build a bridge between them, and a little cordiality would help. When Porter makes to join The Bad Kids, thinking that it's not right that they're all alone, Jace reminds him that they have each other. Literally, since they've missed the window to find other adventuring parties. Jace leaves to log what he found in the arcane register, and Porter continues to stand guard until the police arrive.
Later that day, Fig shows up to "audit" one of his barbarian classes. She walks in to join Gorgug Thistlespring as Porter talks about what rage means to his students. Gorgug answers, totally unprompted, that it confuses him. Porter asks him how that confusion feels, and begins to talk about how when you feel that wall in your mind stopping you from where you want to go, it feels bad. He asks Gorgug what he does when he feels that, and he answers that his mom and dad would tell him to sing a song. Porter asks the rest of the class what they think instead.
He points to Fig, who answers that rage is inevitable because people let you down left and right. You're always gonna feel rage, but it's not about whether you can control the rage, it's whether the rage controls you. Porter sheds a single tear of pride over her answer. Attempting to piggyback off her answer, Gorgug starts singing one of his songs, but Porter points out that even in the song, he wants the obstacles to remove themselves. Porter is disappointed, and Gorgug is ashamed, but Fig is supportive and plays her bass along to the song, giving him Bardic Inspiration.
Fig approaches him later to tell him goodbye before heading home from school. He tells her she has a lot of potential and invites her to come visit his classes any time. He even suggests she might not be a bard at all! Gorgug, who's been quietly standing there for a minute, apologizes for his singing. Fig tries to convince Porter that Gorgug has potential too, but Porter does not seem to remember him at all, and hesitates to say he has potential too.
Family in Flames[]
Adaine and Kristen see footage in the AV Club showing Porter being captured in a palimpsest that was disguised as a security camera.
Fantasy High: Sophomore Year[]
Sophomores Start[]
Porter is re-introduced through Fig, who hired Riz to investigate Porter for any misdeeds now that he has his private investigator's license. Riz follows him around to the best of his ability, but can only watch him for about fifteen minutes at a time because he doesn't have his driver's license and has to ask his mom to help him tail Porter. He finds that Porter frequents to "Fantasy Vitamin Shoppe" as well as his local gym. It's considered more of a community gym and they have things like movie nights, which Porter also attends. Riz explains that Porter is a generally above-average guy, but Fig refuses to believe him.
Heartache on the Celestine Sea[]
Ragh tells The Bad Kids that after the battle at prom in their Freshman year, he had run into Porter and Jace. Although Ragh didn't feel injured, Porter did "barbarian healing" on him. After this occurs, Ragh sees Kalina for the first time.
At the end of the series, it is said he is training Ragh and Zelda as well as Fig and Gorgug.
Fantasy High LIVE at RTX Austin[]
He is seen again still training Gorgug and Fig giving Gorgug advice in throwing while telling Fig about her performance so far. He is also the one who first lets Gorgug know something big is going on with Zelda.
Fantasy High: Junior Year[]
Not All Who Wanda Are Lost[]
Porter continues to teach Gorgug, although believes he is a below-average student as he does not yet understand the usefulness of rage. Porter initially refuses to sign Gorgug’s MCAT to allow him to attend Artificer classes on top of Barbarian classes.
The Name[]
The Bad Kids travel to The Temple of the Fallen Sun in The Mountains of Chaos, an ancient place of worship for Ankarna. While there, Riz also looks over documents pertaining to Ragh, trying to figure out why Kalina said his name before being whisked away. While doing this, Riz remembers that just before Ragh saw Kalina for the first time he ran into Jace and Porter, who Ragh had said did barbarian healing magic on him, something barbarians cannot do. Now knowing Porter is also a paladin, Riz deduces he must have used Lay on Hands, which would have involved touching Ragh's wounds, passing Kalina's virus on to him and allowing Ragh to see her later that night. Knowing that Porter had set off this series of events, The Bad Kids are able to connect Porter to the The Rat Grinders' efforts to raise Ankarna again.
They put together that Porter is descended from the past followers of Ankarna, the House of Sun Stone, that attempted to completely transform her into a goddess of war and rage and have her destroy her fellow gods. They had fled and scattered after the breaking of the Cliffs of Colcath, which is where Porter's last name Cliffbreaker comes from. Gorgug thinks of how Porter was able to cut through a giant stone with a single strike in class and connects that to the many felled trees at the place where Yolanda Badgood and Lucy Frostblade had died, as well as the mass destruction at the Barkrock home in Sophomore Year. His paladin class would also allow him to cast Revivify, letting him be the one to bring Buddy Dawn back as a follower of Ankarna. Porter's encouragement of Fig in her path towards becoming a paladin and his discouragement of her becoming of paladin for Cassandra guided her towards Ankarna and led her to become her champion.
The next day, Fig goes to Porter with a fake name for Ankarna so that he thinks he has all he needs for the ritual. She gives him a slip of paper with the name Bacharath on it as Riz hides on top of nearby lockers while invisible and Adaine and Gorgug spy on them from a nearby window, with Adaine casting Detect Thoughts on him. Once he has the name, he uses a legendary action to make some form of magical attack, stunning Fig, Adaine and Gorgug. Riz is able to maintain invisibility and is not knocked from his perch, and he notices on the edge of his vision that a close-by locker rattles more than the others where an invisible person had moved off of it. Adaine determines that Porter received a telepathic message and is able to determine that an invisible Kipperlilly passed by Porter as he flung The Bad Kids back.
After Porter leaves, Riz uses Misty Step to get into his office and searches through it. He finds notes to Halo St. Croix pushing him to allow Porter to teach Fig and a letter from Bobby Dawn telling him about devil's honey, as well as Bobby's claim that he supported Porter's efforts to create a new god of war. He finds phyllo pastry, most likely used to make baklava containing devil's honey as well as psychosomatic allergy medicine for cat dandruff, implying he has been around Kalina. Riz also finds several Nutribullets that smell of Ambrosia. Riz is able to determine that Porter is attempting to bring back Ankarna to destroy her and become the god of war himself. By drinking the Ambrosia he is expelled from his earthly body. In order to take Ankarna's place upon her death, he would need the signature of her champion, something he had attempted to gain from Fig through signing her MCAT and collecting her feedback, something Riz discovers he also did with Lucy Frostblade and Buddy Dawn.
Trivia[]
- He genuinely believes that "Porter" is a great name for a god.
- Because of Gorbag's comment that he had Porter as a teacher in Fracas at the Frostyfaire Folk Festival, we can assume that Porter has been working at Aguefort for at least sixteen years.