Appearance

Physical Description

Eldur inherited the trademark dwarvish stockiness, but on a taller, longer frame. She is densely muscled and broad, yet feminine.

Body Features

Eldur inherited horns and pointed ears from her Genie mother.

Facial Features

• Eldur's left eyebrow is split by a small scar from an incident wherein a bottle she was working on overheated and popped, sending glass shards splintering in all directions.


• Eldur inherited fanged canines from her Genie mother, and softer, more rounded features from her Dwarf father.

Identifying Characteristics

Eldur is hard to miss with her blazing blue flame hair, impressive horns, and swarthy complexion.

Physical quirks

Eldur chews her lip when she is deep in thought or feeling anxious or angry. Sometimes, this causes a fang to pop over her lower lip and stick there until she corrects it or opens her mouth.

Apparel & Accessories

Eldur is an attractive young woman and she knows it. She likes to flaunt a bit and sticks to a simple, practical, yet flattering wardrobe that allows her freedom of movement while showing just a little skin.

Special abilities

Eldur can peel an apple using only the outer edge of either fang.

Mentality

Personal history

Eldur is the unintended product of an agreement turned affair between a Genie from the Elemental Plane of Fire, her mother, and a Gold Dwarf of the Dragon Coast, her father, Flint Glergilder.


Flint is a renowned glass blower now, but he wasn't always so skilled. In exchange for a blessing of superior craftsmanship, Flint promised his greatest work, his masterpiece, to the genie. His blessing is that all who encounter his works become enamored by them, wanting so desperately to possess a Glergilder Original that they may even be driven mad with desire. His curse, however, is that he will never be truly fulfilled as an artist. His masterwork must remain hidden away from the world. Flint himself is subject to the eternal torment of infinite fine tuning - never satisfied with his heart project because it can never really be finished.
Eldur never knew her mother, nor has Eldur ever cared to know her. Flint and his char-complected daughter faced a great deal of discrimination from their clan. A Genasi had never been born in their midst as far back as any elder could recall. Surely, she must be an ill omen.


Flint was strongly advised to give up his child - to send her away or else abandon her in some remote place. Vehemently, he refused. Instead, Flint lived as an outcast and raised Eldur himself. Much to their disdain, his clansfolk couldn't exile him. Without his fine works to export, the community would see a steep decline in profits. Eldur was bedgrudgingly permitted to receive her education alongside her dwarvish peers, though she struggled in a society ill-fitted both to her physique and her heritage. When not in school, Eldur trained as an apprentice to her father and became quite a skilled glassworker herself.


Ultimately, Eldur determined the life of an adventurer was perhaps the best fit for her. With her father's blessing and a healthy coin purse, she left the Dragon Coast and now seeks opportunities to test her mettle.


Just before Eldur left her clan in the hills of the Dragon Coast, a meeting was called to gather all the dwarven elders of the region to negotiate new trade agreements.


Eldur caught wind that one of the wealthier clans was planning to muscle out some of the smaller ones, stranding their communities with no means of income. Knowing no one would take her at her word, Eldur planned to expose the corruption by sneaking into the elders' quarters and procuring some incriminating documents.


She was caught in the act. When she tried to explain the truth to her own clan elders, they flung accusations at her. They called her a liar and a curse; a bane on the clan and a shame in the eyes of their gods. Infuriated, Eldur flew into a rage. She lost control of her elemental abilities and burned the council hall to the ground.
Many were injured as a result. She hasn't forgiven herself and hopes that a life of adventuring and helping others will someday atone for her mistake.

Education

Eldur received a standard dwarven education alongside her peers in her clan. She was also apprenticed to her father to learn glassblowing.

Employment

Glassblower
Adventurer

Accomplishments & Achievements

• Eldur has a modest collection of high quality glass and gemstone products that she made herself. For now, these are stored back at home with her father.


• Eldur still holds the record for most accurate long distance axe throw in her clan, much to the chagrin of everyone else.

Failures & Embarrassments

• Eldur once overheated a glass bottle project, causing it to burst and send glass shards flying. One of those shards left a gash over her left eyebrow, which left a scar that is still visible today.


• Despite her physical attractiveness, Eldur has never had a romantic relationship. This bothers her greatly.

Mental Trauma

Eldur struggles with a need to feel accepted and wanted. Growing up in a dwarvish clan where she was viewed as an ill omen and made to feel that she was at fault for her father's strained relationship with his community has left her in a peculiar state of unyielding self-assurance and, simultaneously, of relentless self-doubt.

Intellectual Characteristics

Though Eldur isn't exactly a scholar, she is far from stupid. She has no higher education, but maintains a keen awareness of her surroundings. Her intuition is usually correct.

Morality & Philosophy

Eldur believes in doing what is right, regardless of rules or laws that may be in place. She seems gruff and abrasive, but inside she feels deeply for others and wants to work toward a more equitable world.

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Eldur is queer/questioning. With no romantic experience thus far, she isn't sure where on the sexuality spectrum she lands.

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Eldur is a ciswoman using she/her pronouns.

Taboos

• Do not touch her hair. You will get burned. Yes, really. You were warned.


• Do not ask Eldur to open bottles of wine or mead with her fangs. They are not cork screws and she is more than capable of tugging the cork out the old fashioned way.

Known Languages

Common, Primordial, Dwarvish

Personality

Motivation

Eldur is motivated by a desire for new experiences and expanded horizons. She also values fairness and equity and always looks for chances to spread more of it in the world.

• If someone is in trouble, she is always ready to lend help.


• She has a strong sense of fair play and always tries to find the most equitable solution to arguments.

Savvies & Ineptitudes

• Eldur is an adept glassblower and a skilled markswoman with a handaxe. She is also a great cook, having learned to focus her body heat for perfectly prepared hot meals.


• Eldur is not a strong swimmer, as water is diametrically opposed to fire and she hates the way it feels on her skin. She is also a terrible liar. If her mother were in the picture, she'd certainly be embarrassed for her daughter as Genies are notoriously deceptive.

Likes & Dislikes

• Eldur loves to collect little chips of broken glass, especially if they're an interesting color. She pockets these or stows them in her backpack and mails them home to her father any time she is able.


• Eldur is claustrophobic. Fire needs space and air to breathe and burn brightly.

Virtues & Personality perks

• Respect. People deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. (Good)


• Freedom. Tyrants must not be allowed to oppress the people. (Chaotic)

Vices & Personality flaws

• The people who knew her when she was younger know her shameful secret, so she can never go home again.


• She has a weakness for the vices of the city, especially hard drink.

Personality Quirks

Eldur chews her lip somtimes when in deep thought or having strong feelings. Her fang will occasionally get stuck on her bottom lip.

Hygiene

Eldur tries to wash daily, but sometimes life on the road just doesn't allow for that. She does her best with some spare cloth and a waterskin.

Social

Birthplace

Elemental Plane of Fire

Current Residence

Nomad

Contacts & Relations

Eldur keeps in touch with her father as best she can. She mails him letters and fragments of glass that she picks up on her travels whenever the opportunity presents itself.

Honorary & Occupational Titles

Folk Hero
You come from a humble social rank, but you are destined for so much more. Already the people of your home village regard you as their champion, and your destiny calls you to stand against the tyrants and monsters that threaten the common folk everywhere.

Wealth & Financial state

Eldur is fairly well off, thanks to a generous start-up fund from her father, which she supplements by selling off bits of her own work whenever she has access to a kiln.

Family Ties

• Flint Glergilder: father, Gold Dwarf


• ???: mother, Fire Genie

Religious Views

Eldur is fairly devout and will usually say a short prayer to herself before entering a fight, crafting, cooking, or traveling.


Dwarven Deities
The gods of the dwarves are a pantheon, or clan, collectively known as the Morndinsamman.


Forge Father and Revered Mother
Moradin, the Soulforger, leads the dwarven gods. Known as Dwarf-father or All-Father, he is the god of the dwarf people as a whole, as well as the god of creation, “dwarf-crafts” (smithing and stonework), and protection. His wife is the Revered Mother, Berronar Truesilver, goddess of hearth and home, of honesty and faithfulness, and of oaths, loyalty, and honor.


Gods of Battle
Clangeddin Silverbeard is the dwarven god of war and valor. Gorm Gulthyn, also called Fire Eyes and the Lord of the Bronze Mask, is the god of defense and vigilance, the protector of dwarves. Haela Brightaxe is the goddess of luck in battle, and the patron of dwarf fighters.


Gods of Craft
Dumathoin, the Keeper of Secrets under the Mountain, is the patron of the shield dwarves, as well as the god of buried wealth, mining, gems, and exploration, and the guardian of the dead. Sharindlar, Lady of Life and Mercy, is the goddess of healing, romantic love, and fertility, often associated with the moon.


Gods of Far Places
The god of invention and discovery is Dugmaren Brightmantle, called the Wandering Tinker or the Gleam in the Eye. Marthammor Duin is the traveler’s god, patron of expatriates and guides, and deity of lightning and roads.


Gods of Wealth
Vergadain, called the Merchant King, is the god of thieves (who commands his followers never to steal from other dwarves), luck, and chance, as well as commerce and negotiation. Abbathor is the god of greed, sometimes portrayed as a dragon filled with envy of the wealth of others, who jealously tends his own hoard.


Gods of Evil
Laduguer is the patron of the duergar, god of magic and those crafts not governed by Moradin. Also worshiped among the duergar is Deep Duerra, a goddess of conquest and of the powers of the mind.

Social Aptitude

Eldur can hold polite conversation and generally enjoys talking to people, as long as they're kind to her. She can be timid at times, due to her long history of being bullied by her peers. She can be abrasive and arrogant. Eldur wants to appear cool and detached, but privately harbors deep compassion for others. She is her mother outside, and her father inside.

Mannerisms

When lost in thought or feeling strong emotions, Eldur often bites and chews her lip. Sometimes, one of her fangs catches on her lower lip and sticks there until she fixes it. She hates to sit still and will typically fidget while seated at a bar or around a fire. Sometimes, she will hop up and take a lap just to move around. She likes to be busy.

Hobbies & Pets

• glassblowing


• axe throwing


• cooking

Speech

Eldur is very well spoken, considering she has only a basic formal education. She spent long hours reading and rereading all the great dwarvish sagas as a child, which expanded her vocabulary quite a bit. Her voice is husky, like graphite tracing on thick sketch paper. She sounds like smoke looks.