Oruhim Swiftcog
Fenfritz Swiftcog's father, and husband to Jola Waywocket.
He was a renowned inventor in his time, and a higher member of the Clockwork Forge.
PERSONALITY
Oruhim was a socially quiet but extremely intelligent individual. His wife, Jola, was the far more outgoing of the two, and much enjoyed mingling with neighbors and clients whereas he preferred solitary work within his workshop day in and day out. Also in contrast to his wife's boisterous personality, Oruhim's was emotionally muted and calculating, though equally kind and gentle. He was much harder to get worked up about anything, and in a strange remnant of the social awkwardness he'd carried since he was a child, did not show a wide range of emotions very often. His happiness was quiet, and so was his disappointment, and he rarely seemed frustrated by obstacles encountered in his work. He believed there was no technological problem too large to be surmounted, so long as one had the patience to work out the path there - somewhat in contrast to his wife, who quite often lacked self-confidence in her abilities though she held her husband's talents in the highest esteem.
CRAFSTMANSHIP
Oruhim was a much renowned inventor and engineer, and shining graduate and member of the upper echelon of the Clockwork Forge, sitting on many of their higher boards and councils. He was much involved in the school's managerial decisions, as he was strongly dedicated to the preservation of the school and advancement of knowledge for the generations of students to come. As a tinker, he worked closely with and for his alma mater on many projects, though he also completed many things under his own well-known Swiftcog name, and was known to - only occasionally - take private contracts from outside parties. He completed studies in all three schools of the forge - Enchanting, Inventing, and Tinkering - though he became most widely known for his success as an Inventor and Tinkerer, working alongside his wife and business partner, Jola, whose prestige as an Enchanter of the Forge matched her husband's more mundane propensities beat for beat.
Oruhim's most recent contract found him in the peaceful and out-of-the-way town of Minnowick, employed by a wealthy party - the identity of whom has been lost to time, both their identity and the nature of their commission intentionally kept secret from both young Fritz and the world at large. Oruhim's mark of craftsmanship, the Swiftcog seal, was one widely recognized as the mark of an extremely skilled craftsman and was recognized by artisans of all skill levels throughout a large swath of the country.
Oruhim and his wife Jola were both well-known alumni of the Clockwork Forge, a prestigious dwarven insitution and clan dedicated to the tinkering craft. While Jola was one of the institution's most talented enchanters, Oruhim was considered one of their greatest inventor alumni and a great source of pride for the institution.
DEATH
Oruhim was sequestered away in Minnowick on the specific request of whatever patron employed him on the final project which led to his demise. It was to be his biggest, most complex, and most advanced project yet, unrivaled by anything which existed on the Continent - and it was to be constructed entirely in secret, sheltered safely away from prying eyes in the unassuming little town. Young Fritz, though she was intimately involved in most of her father's projects before this one, was not even allowed to set foot inside the room of his workshop which held the schematics to this endeavor, and she most certainly was not allowed to set foot inside the engineering bay which held the project itself.
On that final fateful day, ten-year-old Fritz was by sheer chance safely away from Oruhim's workshop, playing somewhere in the rolling grassy hills outside of the village. The peaceful summer afternoon was rocked with an explosion of never-before-seen magnitude which obliterated the Swiftcog workshop and two-thirds of the surrounding town. It became the deadliest engineering accident in modern history. In one fell swoop, the once-great Swiftcog name was forever marred as one of the greatest failures and hardest downfalls of history.
However, it was no accident. The deadly blast came to be by no error on Oruhim's part: it was sabotage. Whether it was at the behest of his mysterious patron, or a rival who wanted to assure the project never came to completion, Oruhim had no part in the tragedy that occurred, and he and his wife were simply victims caught in the crossfire.
ACCURSED ARCHIVES
On one of Fritz's subsequent trips to the Accursed Archives, she exchanged a secret in a bid to discover what the Archive knew of her father. The blatant lack of concrete information she was presented with was disappointing, but revealing in its own right. Record Hunters handed her books with entire chapters of blank pages, whose other pages speak of great tinkerers of the Creeh Colony and other continents of The Fogs, but whose pages contain absolutely no mention of her father. The Hunters bring her book after book, but all mysteriously have huge swaths of redacted material, whose other pages contain information closely relevant to her father, but without a single mention of his name or his work.
Fritz presumes that this means someone went through the entirety of the Archive and redacted every single instance and mention of her father throughout, though she does not know who, or what information they are trying to hide.
Mental characteristics
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Family Ties
Husband of Jola Waywocket
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