Appearance

Physical Description

Half the size of a human, this bizarre creature requires a moment to fully inventory. His lavender colored skin seems to have a hardened quality to it, not unlike chitin. A healthy tuft of mint colored hair is oddly the most normal thing about him.

Body Features

After determining that this creature is indeed humanoid, it's obvious that the strange machinations of the land have had its toll on him. Despite the chitinous skin, his fingers, hands and legs betray a decent level of agility as he endlessly tinkers with miscellaneous tek. Fine paths of bronze metal crawl up his arms, intermingling with Ironflesh that sparks harmlessly in sync with the tek he carries. Six foot long spindly spider legs errupt from the back of his torso, neatly folded when he is standing or supporting his weight in their full height.

Facial Features

There is little left of this gnome's original face that hasn't been replaced with metal or bizarre mutation. Two stalks replace his eyes that protrude out from his face and gravitate towards whatever has caught his attention in this moment. The rest of his face is replaced with the cold metal of Ironflesh (description pending).

Identifying Characteristics

Though not exactly uncommon, he always seems to be covered in a layer of dust. Close inspection reveals it to be Drit, though all the same it looks as though he has recently been rolling around in it.

Physical quirks

He is constantly twisting his eye stalks and looking intently away. He seems to manage this even when focused on a task without the habit impeding his progress. His spider legs occasionally hug around his midriff when he is thinking

Apparel & Accessories

The gnome carries little that can be recognized immediately on his person. His studded leather armor and shield are simple enough, but they hardly draw the eye as straps, bandoleers and magnetic strips haphazardly strap a multitude of tek wonders that may inspire caution in the common folk who know better than to clump assorted tek together.

Specialized Equipment

Galdimere always seems to be tinkering on an odd looking contraption. It appears to be a clay circle with a number of tek attachments that look like the spindly legs of a spider. When it is "closed" the legs fold in within the circle, connecting together in a pattern not unlike a spider's web. Despite certainly being made of some kind of clay, the circular core adjusts with incredible flexibility, allowing the legs to move in complex ways.

Special abilities

Odd. Once per Long Rest, you have the ability to spend an hour and a DC 12 Knowledge (Arcana) check to produce an oddity. This item is found through scavenging the surrounding area, piecing it together from bits of drit or broken tek, pulling it from another dimension, or even manifest it from a dream. This oddity ceases to function, either breaking apart, dissolving back where it came from, or otherwise just disappearing after 24 hours unless (unless you spend 1 hour maintaining it to keep the device functioning and a part of your reality), or when you use your action to dismantle it. You can have one such device active at a time.
 
Mutations
Eyes on stalks: Your eyes are on stalks and can move in any direction, independently of each other. You can peek around corners without exposing yourself to danger. You add your proficiency bonus to initiative rolls and Wisdom (Perception) checks.
Piercing resistance: You have resistance against piercing damage.
Suggestive voice: Your voice is perfectly modulated for speech. You gain proficiency in Deception and Persuasion.
Spider Legs from Torso: In addition to your normal limbs, six spider-like legs, each 6 feet long, extend from your sides. You add your proficiency bonus to Strength and Dexterity checks and saves that involve running, climbing, remaining on your feet, and resisting being moved.
Adhesion pads: Your hands and feet have naturally adhesive pads. Climbing doesn’t cost you extra movement and you add your proficiency bonus to Strength (Athletics) checks for climbing.

Mentality

Personal history

Galdimere grew up with a reverence for Old Tek. His village was situated in the wilds of the western continent. The settlement was constantly shrouded in a violet mist; a result of his ancestor's tinkering of an abandoned Old Tek artifact. The mist didn't seem to affect the gnomes much so they established Lavender Bloom, an outpost where traveling gnomes would stay before heading back into the wilds.
In truth, although a constant gnome population was maintained, the only permanent residents were Galdimere's family. They raised generations of devout attendees to the device that generates the mist. Galdimere was well on his way to becoming an acolyte in his own right, but inevitably grew fascinated with the tales of travelers.
The longer he stayed, the more his dreams became less and less inspired. He began to tinker with rejected offerings to Lavender Bloom and before long began neglecting his duties to his family. The distance between him and his family grew until they began to treat him like a traveler.
So he left.
 
His travels began rather typically for a gnome. He spent decades exploring ruins, though most of what he found was already plundered.
 
(TBC)

Education

Galdimere grew up learning about tek with his family's collections of offerings. Additional lessons came in the form of anecdotes of passing gnomes. Though most formative of his current knowledge was the time he spent comparing and learning among the Arkists.

Accomplishments & Achievements

Galdimere and friends successfully destroyed a sentience seeking to control the Singing Monolith. They became attuned to the Monolith themselves and were rewarded by the Exultist Church with sovereignty over the Crooked Hills area surrounding Caracara.
 
Galdimere used his Dream Melder to create a gnomish town outside the ruins of Arkormine, west of Caracara. The budding town took on the name Violet Flash and has caused gnomes to begin to traverse the Crooked Hills.

Failures & Embarrassments

Though working with a half torn machine, Galdimere failed to stop the rise of the Singing Monolith. He took the final lever that he pulled off of the machine.
 
In pushing himself too far trying to modify tek that he didn't fully understand, he destroyed the battery of a containment unit that held the sylvan entity known as Alaverthera. They tore apart their acquaintance, Malrubeus, and disappeared into the world. Galdimere kept Malrubeus' arm.

Known Languages

Common, Elvish, Gnomish, Unknown Language

Personality

Motivation

Now intrinsically tied to the Singing Monolith, Galdimere is quite curious about the capabilities of all of the other Monoliths.
 
He has never banded with companions as long as he has with the other members of Safeguard (Pending), and feels a fierce loyalty for them.
 
He has established the town of Violet Flash as part of his power as sovereign of the Crooked Hills. He is still grappling with the concept that his deeds and position make him somewhat of a leader of others.
 
A deep part of him is still achingly curious about the Arkivist's goals of leaving the planet for a Promised Lands out beyond the void. Is there a place beyond the reach of the Ancients?

Social

Birthplace

Central Falen

Current Residence

Singing Monolith, Caracara, Violet Flash