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Gurtis Vortch is headless. Vortch is both blind and deaf, but his ability to use deathwatch helps to lessen the penalties he takes from this condition. These penalties are included as appropriate in his stats, including a –4 penalty to initiative, a –4 penalty on opposed Perception checks, a –4 penalty on Strength- and Dexterity-based skill checks, and his reduced speed (if he wants to move at 30 ft., he must make a DC 10 Acrobatics check or fall prone).
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I was as confused as you are, jcfiala, when I read all the things Gurtis has even though he has the Blind Fight feat.
I interpret it as follows:
Blind Fight helps you to lessen your impairment occuring because you are blind. Did you ever interact with blind people? They will use their other senses to move around, like their touch sense with the white cane (Vortch wields an Axe, so that's out of the picture) or their hearing sense (which he could use if he still had SOMETHING on his shoulders). But as it stands, he has absolutely NO senses to lessen his impairment except his Deathwatch sense and the ability to interpret the ways his axe hits his enemy - "Hey, that felt like it was a shield, so with my next hit I will hit like THIS..."
If he were played like just a blind skeleton with the Blind Fight feat, he would probably slaugther the party.