Leo Hammersmitty - Tinker, Smith, Gnome of Gond
Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 7:41 pm
Hammer Time
First Name: Leo
Last Name: Hammersmitty
Appearance:
Aging gnome with forge-tanned skin and calloused leather-like hands. The rest of his unexposed skin is fair.
Race: Rock Gnome
Age: Well-past middle-aged at around 212 years
Height Average height for a gnome at 3'6"
Weight: On the heavy side for a gnome at about 80 lbs. He has a bit of a gnomish potbelly.
Eyes: Dark Grey, sometimes donning tinted goggles or a set of brass jeweler's lenses, depending on which trade he is pursuing at the moment.
Hair: Light grey with dark black roots
Facial Hair Style: Light grey with black roots, whimsically styled, but with many of them clearly burned off at the ends. It tends to grow more sideways than forwards, perhaps due to the forges' heat.
Speech: Has major studdering or rare occasion. He is also prone to some nervous vocal ticks which result is strange souds like Whhhhrzzpt! and Pzzzzzting!
Personality Profile:
General Health: Healthy!
Deity: Gond
Initial Alignment: CG
Profession: Armorsmith, techsmith, tinker, and repairer of metal wares with some leatherwork and woodwork training. Such would be necessary for shield and platemail projects. Moderately skilledled in mining and very well-versed in the refining of ore.
Base Class & Proposed Development: Cleric of Gond, Techsmith, and a minor in Dragon Slaying as he has found the colored dragons to be a bane of creativity and innovation with their destructive nature.
Habits/Hobbies: Prefers smoking from dwarven-made pipes, likes to tinker and ornately decorate his wares. He always marks his goods with crossed Gnomish Picks and his initials.
Languages: Gnomish, Lantanese, Draconic, and Common
Weapon of Choice: Small Hammer or Heavy Crossbow.
Background: Born in the surrounding areas of Waterdeep, though he has spent much of his life in Lantan. At about 150 years of age, he took to following Gond more devoutly, eventually becoming one of the clergy. This conversion is what brings him to the Gate about sixty years later, as he is tasked with bringing some innovation to the area.
Honestly, the old Gnome is of little renown. He is no great adventurer or slayer of dragons. He has never led a crusade, captained a ship, or laid waste to Banites. What the old gnome has done, is take great pride in his innovating and quality smithing. His entire life has been spent paying unnecessarily large time and effort to relatively small and less-important details in his works. He has smithed wares for over a century and dedicated that time to honing those skills.
Any skills developed with those weapons and armor are haphazard and through merely testing the equipment. Most of the beasts he has fell consist of practice dummies and hay bales.
Naturally, he started off as a laborer and an apprentice to an experienced smith in Waterdeep. As the years and his skills progressed, he became a journeyman and eventually a masterwork armorer. He took a wife, eventually had two daughters and a younger son, eleven grandchildren, and two great grandchildren. Only in the last few decades has he began to truly strive for the outstanding... a legacy even. He is spurred in part, if not in majority, by the fact that he most likely does not have many years left before he will pass. Leo Hammersmitty is motivated to leave his family with more than just a few shops of moderate renown.
He has left his mining and smithing operations in the areas of Waterdeep in the possession of his descendants. Likewise, his blacksmith shop in Lantan has been left in the capable hands of his son Isaiah and his family. This has allowed Leo, now a widower, ample time to persue his end-of-life goals and spread the love of innovation and faith in Gond. It is both the will of the High Holy Crafthouse and his own goals.
Goals: General goals are to continue to innovate and spread this innovation in the area of Baldur's Gate. He will also be attempting to utilize the vast amounts of knowledge contained within Candlekeep. His concentrations will be in smithing, constructs, and engineering.
Possible Plot-Hook Ideas and Misc Facts: Having very limited combat abilities and forever in need of something to cart his wares, he greatly desires to gather all the necessary components required to construct a Gondsman.
As always, he desires to put his own special spin on it... whatever that may mean is anyone's guess.
First Name: Leo
Last Name: Hammersmitty
Appearance:
Aging gnome with forge-tanned skin and calloused leather-like hands. The rest of his unexposed skin is fair.
Race: Rock Gnome
Age: Well-past middle-aged at around 212 years
Height Average height for a gnome at 3'6"
Weight: On the heavy side for a gnome at about 80 lbs. He has a bit of a gnomish potbelly.
Eyes: Dark Grey, sometimes donning tinted goggles or a set of brass jeweler's lenses, depending on which trade he is pursuing at the moment.
Hair: Light grey with dark black roots
Facial Hair Style: Light grey with black roots, whimsically styled, but with many of them clearly burned off at the ends. It tends to grow more sideways than forwards, perhaps due to the forges' heat.
Speech: Has major studdering or rare occasion. He is also prone to some nervous vocal ticks which result is strange souds like Whhhhrzzpt! and Pzzzzzting!
Personality Profile:
General Health: Healthy!
Deity: Gond
Initial Alignment: CG
Profession: Armorsmith, techsmith, tinker, and repairer of metal wares with some leatherwork and woodwork training. Such would be necessary for shield and platemail projects. Moderately skilledled in mining and very well-versed in the refining of ore.
Base Class & Proposed Development: Cleric of Gond, Techsmith, and a minor in Dragon Slaying as he has found the colored dragons to be a bane of creativity and innovation with their destructive nature.
Habits/Hobbies: Prefers smoking from dwarven-made pipes, likes to tinker and ornately decorate his wares. He always marks his goods with crossed Gnomish Picks and his initials.
Languages: Gnomish, Lantanese, Draconic, and Common
Weapon of Choice: Small Hammer or Heavy Crossbow.
Background: Born in the surrounding areas of Waterdeep, though he has spent much of his life in Lantan. At about 150 years of age, he took to following Gond more devoutly, eventually becoming one of the clergy. This conversion is what brings him to the Gate about sixty years later, as he is tasked with bringing some innovation to the area.
Honestly, the old Gnome is of little renown. He is no great adventurer or slayer of dragons. He has never led a crusade, captained a ship, or laid waste to Banites. What the old gnome has done, is take great pride in his innovating and quality smithing. His entire life has been spent paying unnecessarily large time and effort to relatively small and less-important details in his works. He has smithed wares for over a century and dedicated that time to honing those skills.
Any skills developed with those weapons and armor are haphazard and through merely testing the equipment. Most of the beasts he has fell consist of practice dummies and hay bales.
Naturally, he started off as a laborer and an apprentice to an experienced smith in Waterdeep. As the years and his skills progressed, he became a journeyman and eventually a masterwork armorer. He took a wife, eventually had two daughters and a younger son, eleven grandchildren, and two great grandchildren. Only in the last few decades has he began to truly strive for the outstanding... a legacy even. He is spurred in part, if not in majority, by the fact that he most likely does not have many years left before he will pass. Leo Hammersmitty is motivated to leave his family with more than just a few shops of moderate renown.
He has left his mining and smithing operations in the areas of Waterdeep in the possession of his descendants. Likewise, his blacksmith shop in Lantan has been left in the capable hands of his son Isaiah and his family. This has allowed Leo, now a widower, ample time to persue his end-of-life goals and spread the love of innovation and faith in Gond. It is both the will of the High Holy Crafthouse and his own goals.
Goals: General goals are to continue to innovate and spread this innovation in the area of Baldur's Gate. He will also be attempting to utilize the vast amounts of knowledge contained within Candlekeep. His concentrations will be in smithing, constructs, and engineering.
Possible Plot-Hook Ideas and Misc Facts: Having very limited combat abilities and forever in need of something to cart his wares, he greatly desires to gather all the necessary components required to construct a Gondsman.
As always, he desires to put his own special spin on it... whatever that may mean is anyone's guess.
