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I put together this NPC that I wanted to throw into my current game.
I really liked the idea but I'm not sure how I want to introduce him. He could have just as easily been a Gnome but i always had the impression dwarves have a sense that things in the world are more certain, more black and white, true and false, and it would be interesting to have a dwarven character that had that world view shaken up.
The campaign i wrote assumes the players will be building a new settlement in southern Isger along the Keld river. I have no idea what the players will actually do of course and my content might be thrown out the window. I was thinking this NPC if allowed could get a press started in their settlement and be one way for me to feed quest leads to the players.
"Any dwarf knows well that even when stones lie they tell the truth."
Born in Highhelm but raised in Andoran from a young age Bolloxen lived removed from his clan heritage and name. Coming of age in Almas and standing on what he believed to be dwarven principles of what is true in the world is true as rock he set out to discover these truths and share them with the all who would listen. As he developed his profession he often hired those overlooked or marginalized by human societies like halflings and goblins to help gather information for his publications. From the goblins he employed the honorific of Knowgiver was bestowed to him. While in his youth he became caught up in a plot spun by fey distorting the lives of the ratcatchers in Almas. The lives of these folks were of no concern to most of Almas citizens but for Bolloxen no job was too small and no people too insignificant to help. After uncovering the fey plot the caitsith responsible were both impressed and offended. To show this dwarven interloper how reality and truth cant be counted on they transformed Bolloxen into a cat. "You see? you believed yourself a dwarf and how true is that? Nothing is so true, so constant, but we found your fumbling amusing so we will leave with this gift. Be dwarf or be cat but remember the truth is never so certain."
Now Bolloxen Knowgiver keeps a network of reporting investigators and informants from Highelm to Elidor all bringing information to his studio of journalistic truism in Almas. Bolloxen often uses his gift of cat form to confuse those new to meeting him, waiting in cat form when they arrive at his office to gather their dispositions unnoticed then transforming back into his dwarven form hoping to have gained an edge for the meeting. He is a devout follower of Irori as any truth worth knowing is known to him.