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Hurry along now, you know what they'll say if we're even a minute late!" barked the old master of the floppish gnome, the gnome who was not quite a youngling anymore, if not very mature either. The two hurried towards the Mulan house, bringing along the tools of their trade. The master's back turned, the gnome decided he had had enough of hurrying to fulfill every desire of the Mulan. It was still early and shadows were long. He slipped off, moving from shadow to shadow. Away from Syl-Var.
Years ago, when his parents had given up most of their savings to sign the gnome up to become an apprentice to a local mechanist, the gnome had thought much more glamoursly of the craft. He had imagined intricate clockworks, complex machinery, rumbling mechanisms of apparatutes both gigantic and miniscule in size. A chance to be someone and do something marvelous, even in the oppressive atmosphere of a place like Hazlan.
Instead, all they did was install locks and tripwire alarms.
For this ambitious gnome, whose true interests laid in everything obscure, difficult, complicated and mysterious, Syl-Var was much too small and the chances for greatness under Mulan rulership much too low. He longed to study the arts closer to his heart. He wanted to see threatre. He wanted to perform. He wanted to build with his hands. He wanted to show the world what he truly was capable of.
Deciding to try his luck elsewhere, the gnome's plans came to a new twist when Mists arose on one fateful night on the road..
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Name: Vitus Ambrosia
Age: 40, stepping into adulthood for a gnome.
Origin: Native; Hazlan, Syl-Var.
Aligment: Neither strongly good nor evil as of making. Averse of order and hierarchies, but flexible and quick to adjust to changing situations.
Appearance: Average gnome; Large nose, brown hair, with first touches of grey. Pale blue eyes. Seems agile, flexible. Relatively passable looks for a gnome.
Interests: Machinery, illusions, theatre, art, mercantilism, travel, shadows.
Aversions: Being trapped, being controlled, being ordered around, being broke, being underappreciated, being unknown.
Fears: Cages, immobilizing traps, evocation magic, destructive magic, necromantic magic.