I'm running the RotRL AP for my group. They're just finishing up book 4 and will be looking for the runeforge very soon. I had an idea of how to incorporate one of my PC's backstory but now looking at the logistics, I don't think it makes sense lore wise. I'm hoping to get a little bit of help.
The PC: he is a dwarf and, long story short, he believes he is a leprechaun. He is greedy (which fits well into the AP), got ridiculed for his belief, killed someone and basically got kicked out of his village due to his delusions. That's the highlights of his backstory.
I planned on adding it in by having them find a list while researching things in the Thassilonian library. It was a list of Thaassilon slaves that were sent to the runeforge as test subjects before earthfall that had his last name on it. My thought was they were tested on and greed was basically etched into their genes and passed down generation to generation. One of his ancestors somehow escaped and here we are.
The problem (or at least one of the problems) is that dwarves didn't even come to the surface until after earthfall so it doesn't make sense for them to be slaves in Thassilon.
Anyone have any ideas to make this work? Or some other ways to incorporate his backstory at the point of the AP were in?
His Ancestor was eaten alive with greed and before he went to the rune forge had relations with X. This started his family line. However once in the rune forge, he finds out his ancestor was not good enough for the kingdom of Thassilon and was sacrificed in an experiment. Do a minor swap of an item on one of the bosses to be a family heirloom and a journal entry in that bosses journal detailing that Dwarves are greedy but slow and stupid and not worth the gifts of the Runelords. It then details his gruesome death to make the character hate the rune lords even more.