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{{Infobox_character|affilliation=Copper Mockingbirds, Tempest Brothers|name={{PAGENAME}}|image=Keeper.png|caption="Life is meant for merriment, isn't it?"|relatives=Wilryn (father, deceased)|languages=Common, Gnomish, Sylvan|marital=Married to Jinera Redforge|birthPlace=Port Dagny, Calian|deathDate=N/A|deathPlace=N/A|species=Forest Gnome|gender=Female|height=4'0 ft|weight=35 lbs|eyes=Green}} | |||
Artillerist Artificer. She/Her. | Artillerist Artificer. She/Her. | ||
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== Personality == | == Personality == | ||
As a jovial person who wears an eternal smile, Keeper goes about her day-to-day life savoring the joy of tinkering with new equipment and infusions as well as trying out new alcoholic brews. Truly, she seems to have something for anyone or any situation. Her years spent working with the Copper Mockingbird division in Calian made her adept at working people and her time as the barkeep of the Shining Stamp Inn made her good at pleasing people. Keeper will subtly shift her persona to suit those around her and always makes sure that people she interacts with have their needs met. In her moments spent away from others, Keeper becomes a far more quiet and bitter person who calculates her interactions down to the t. She is capable of genuinely enjoying the company of others but is often so caught up in her own head that doing so is hard. | |||
== History == | == History == | ||
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Following Wilryn’s death, Keeper threw herself into her work for the Copper Mockingbirds. Keeper also took on a job as the city’s resident inventor, coming up with fixes or creations to help those who asked. She further honed her mechanical skills and rose through the ranks as the years went on. Keeper eventually acquired enough money from her jobs that it would have been easy for her to move out of the slums, but she chose to remain, perhaps because she couldn’t bear to part with her dad’s house. When Keeper became a “gold repairwoman” she was assigned to be part of a team that would rob the Ripplerun Manor; the halfling Ripplerun family basically ran Port Dagny and they were very much not to be trifled with. It had taken years for the Copper Mockingbirds to earn enough favors to be able to actually attempt robbing them. Since the higher ranked Mockingbirds specialized in obtaining magical items, the goal of this particular heist was to steal an object called the Sealing Crystal—an item said to be able to lock away a person’s memories. It was rumored that the Rippleruns had used the crystal to turn one of the few Port Dagny guards who wasn’t under their thumb into a blank canvas. | Following Wilryn’s death, Keeper threw herself into her work for the Copper Mockingbirds. Keeper also took on a job as the city’s resident inventor, coming up with fixes or creations to help those who asked. She further honed her mechanical skills and rose through the ranks as the years went on. Keeper eventually acquired enough money from her jobs that it would have been easy for her to move out of the slums, but she chose to remain, perhaps because she couldn’t bear to part with her dad’s house. When Keeper became a “gold repairwoman” she was assigned to be part of a team that would rob the Ripplerun Manor; the halfling Ripplerun family basically ran Port Dagny and they were very much not to be trifled with. It had taken years for the Copper Mockingbirds to earn enough favors to be able to actually attempt robbing them. Since the higher ranked Mockingbirds specialized in obtaining magical items, the goal of this particular heist was to steal an object called the Sealing Crystal—an item said to be able to lock away a person’s memories. It was rumored that the Rippleruns had used the crystal to turn one of the few Port Dagny guards who wasn’t under their thumb into a blank canvas. | ||
Before being assigned to the Ripplerun heist, Keeper had gotten closer to a dwarven rogue named Jinera Redforge. Jinera impressed Keeper with her skills in stealth and tricking the unsuspecting while Keeper amazed Jinera with inventions of every sort and her knowledge of infiltration. Eventually, they came to talk about things that weren’t work related and encouraged each other to think of a future beyond the next immediate score. Jinera revealed that she had started stealing to care for her ailing mother, but at some point realized that her mother would never love her no matter how much she did for her. As a result, she turned to stealing for herself and viewing others as a means to an end. Meeting Keeper was apparently the catalyst for her starting to leave this mindset behind. Keeper confided in her about how much she regretted her last words to her father: “I’m trying to help us eat and you’re just going to get yourself killed.” Within a year, Jinera and Keeper were in a relationship. Both of them were put on the Ripplerun heist. | Before being assigned to the Ripplerun heist, Keeper had gotten closer to a dwarven rogue named Jinera Redforge. Jinera impressed Keeper with her skills in stealth and tricking the unsuspecting while Keeper amazed Jinera with inventions of every sort and her knowledge of infiltration. Eventually, they came to talk about things that weren’t work related and encouraged each other to think of a future beyond the next immediate score. Jinera revealed that she had started stealing to care for her ailing mother, but at some point realized that her mother would never love her no matter how much she did for her. As a result, she turned to stealing for herself and viewing others as a means to an end. Meeting Keeper was apparently the catalyst for her starting to leave this mindset behind. Keeper confided in her about how much she regretted her last words to her father: “I’m trying to help us eat and you’re just going to get yourself killed.” Within a year, Jinera and Keeper were in a relationship. Both of them were put on the Ripplerun heist. | ||
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About one year after the incident with Valvon Ripplerun, a war among Calian’s gods erupted. It was a five-way conflict between Aiza, a goddess of nature and light, and her four children: Omri (a god of life), Enya (a goddess of passion), Alvi (a goddess of reason), and Dell (a god of darkness and decay). Different sources said different things about what exactly the cause of the war was, but a great many wartime scholars would come to agree that Dell’s cultists attempting to give their god more power led to the other gods growing wary. This wariness bled over into outright fighting as Alvi aligned herself with Dell while Omri and Enya sided with Aiza. These alliances would quickly dissolve, however. Their conflict was the cause of Calian’s Four Plagues: an illness that fated those who caught it with undeath, madness that blotted out reason, a bitter cold that chilled every heart it touched, and a flood that rose ever higher to drag mortals into its abyss. This time of plagues and warfare became known as the Era of Divine Enmity. Port Dagny’s slums were most heavily impacted by the illness called the Creeping Cough. Many of the customers and friends Keeper had come to know slowly wore away into remnants of themselves before becoming undead that needed to be put down. | About one year after the incident with Valvon Ripplerun, a war among Calian’s gods erupted. It was a five-way conflict between Aiza, a goddess of nature and light, and her four children: Omri (a god of life), Enya (a goddess of passion), Alvi (a goddess of reason), and Dell (a god of darkness and decay). Different sources said different things about what exactly the cause of the war was, but a great many wartime scholars would come to agree that Dell’s cultists attempting to give their god more power led to the other gods growing wary. This wariness bled over into outright fighting as Alvi aligned herself with Dell while Omri and Enya sided with Aiza. These alliances would quickly dissolve, however. Their conflict was the cause of Calian’s Four Plagues: an illness that fated those who caught it with undeath, madness that blotted out reason, a bitter cold that chilled every heart it touched, and a flood that rose ever higher to drag mortals into its abyss. This time of plagues and warfare became known as the Era of Divine Enmity. Port Dagny’s slums were most heavily impacted by the illness called the Creeping Cough. Many of the customers and friends Keeper had come to know slowly wore away into remnants of themselves before becoming undead that needed to be put down. | ||
When Keeper caught the Creeping Cough, her first instinct was to ask Jinera to marry her so she wouldn’t have any regrets if/when the sickness killed her. Jinera agreed and they held a two-person ceremony before signing the papers. After the wedding, Keeper got a tip about a potential cure for the Creeping Cough. According to an anonymous source acquired through Copper Mockingbird connections, ingesting a piece of Glimmerflame from the Gleamtree would purge the illness. Glimmerflame was the essence of Aiza—eternal gold flames that were cool to the touch but could cut through any darkness and purge any rot. The Gleamtree was a massive tree in the center of Calian that acted as the lifeblood of the land. It was apparently Aiza’s first creation. To cure herself, Keeper would have to steal from a goddess. She was willing to take her chances, so she bid her wife goodbye and set out | When Keeper caught the Creeping Cough, her first instinct was to ask Jinera to marry her so she wouldn’t have any regrets if/when the sickness killed her. Jinera agreed and they held a two-person ceremony before signing the papers. After the wedding, Keeper got a tip about a potential cure for the Creeping Cough. According to an anonymous source acquired through Copper Mockingbird connections, ingesting a piece of Glimmerflame from the Gleamtree would purge the illness. Glimmerflame was the essence of Aiza—eternal gold flames that were cool to the touch but could cut through any darkness and purge any rot. The Gleamtree was a massive tree in the center of Calian that acted as the lifeblood of the land. It was apparently Aiza’s first creation. To cure herself, Keeper would have to steal from a goddess. She was willing to take her chances, so she bid her wife goodbye and set out. | ||
== Languages == | == Languages == | ||
Keeper was raised in a mixed-race city by a gnome parent, which meant that she was taught to speak both Common and Gnomish as she grew up. She speaks both languages with ease but does favor Gnomish the slightest bit because it reminds her of her father. Sylvan is Keeper’s least favorite language of those she knows because she learned it during her time as the goddess Aiza’s prisoner. Keeper didn’t learn Sylvan in the traditional sense: it was branded into her mind when Aiza stripped her of her freedom and bound her in servitude to the Shining Stamp Inn. She avoids speaking it and even has a tendency to make sour expressions when she hears it spoken within her vicinity. Still, on occasion, Sylvan words make their way into her speech—usually when she’s zoning out. | Keeper was raised in a mixed-race city by a gnome parent, which meant that she was taught to speak both Common and Gnomish as she grew up. She speaks both languages with ease, but does favor Gnomish the slightest bit because it reminds her of her father. Sylvan is Keeper’s least favorite language of those she knows because she learned it during her time as the goddess Aiza’s prisoner. Keeper didn’t learn Sylvan in the traditional sense: it was branded into her mind when Aiza stripped her of her freedom and bound her in servitude to the Shining Stamp Inn. She avoids speaking it and even has a tendency to make sour expressions when she hears it spoken within her vicinity. Still, on occasion, Sylvan words make their way into her speech—usually when she’s zoning out. | ||
== Powers and Abilities == | == Powers and Abilities == |