Cato Durthane

Cato Durthane

Cato Durthane is a Maddrellan male mountain dwarf archaeologist employed by the Frosted Gold Company. He is the chief scientist at the Mount Jeharoa Encampment for the Frosted Gold Company and an expert on Jeharoa during Mithril Era and the Ashkelonian Dynasty.

Physical Description

General Physical Condition

A red-faced dwarf with a dark grey beard. His head is covered by checkered blue keffiyeh to ward off the sun, but his face still peels. He wears a simple laborer’s tunic with multiple scroll bag harnesses strapped to his chest. He looks sweaty and uncomfortable in this climate but there is a hungering curiosity in his eyes.

Mental characteristics

Intellectual Characteristics

Knows:

• The excavation has found the foundations of the old city first build during the Mithril Era
• The city of the Mithril Era and the bedrock around it was enchanted so that only the upper buildings could be demolished by magic—only mortal tools can pierce the stone
• The stone is hard and it requires tools of adamantine to break—not even dragonbreath steel can pierce it
• However, one doorway was found leading into the ruins of the under city
• The doorway, called the Gate of Skulls, is made of sacred greenstone and can only be opened by the five keys
• The Gate of Skulls and this section of the city were constructed by the Pharaoh Sethenes II or Sethenes the Well-WandererIf there are still keys to the Gate of Skulls, they likely can be found in the tomb of Sethenes in the Marrow Desert;
• The leader of the operation, a woman called Brynhilde left with some men to find this tomb
• The Gate itself is located under the command tent in the Excavation Camp
• The FGC knows that if this leads to the Heart Hearth then it will be guarded by Tahmuras monks
• The monks have rarely been seen and only two have been seen in the last fifty years—one was executed and the other disappeared
• The FGC is looking for this other Tahmuras monk

Wealth & Financial state

Loot:

• A map containing the locations of all the most important ruins in Nioa
• A hooded bullseye lantern
• A pick
• A set of traveler’s cloths
• A shovel
• A two-person tent
• A set of bone pipes
• 25 royals

Alignment

True Neutral

Current Location

Mount Jeharoa: Frosted Gold Company Encampment

Species

Mountain Dwarf

Ethnicity

Maddrellan

Year of Birth

169 S.E. 193 Years old

Birthplace

Dainbridge

Current Residence

Jeharoa

Gender

Male

Eyes

Dark grey filled with curiousity

Hair

Dark grey

Skin Tone/Pigmentation

Red-faced, pale but sunburnt

Aligned Organization

Frosted Gold Company

Known Languages

• Maddrellan (Fluent)
• Tamorese (Fluent)
• Falerian (Fluent)
• Mashiqi (Conversational)
• Old Temekanian (Low-level; under-proficient)