Gelda Herzwelt

Gelda Herzwelt is the daughter of Bador Herzwelt and one of his several wives. She is the spitting image of her father, but with piercing indigo eyes and softer features. Despite adhering to the dwarven virtue of craftsmenship and excelling in intricate metalworking designs, she abandoned their racial god because he was too "stuffy". Perhaps because it was somewhat taboo, she became obsessed with arcane magics, little of which she could find in Janderhoff. A travelling Varisian cultist, following the empyreal lord Soralyon, fed her the tales of the angel-turned deity which fueled her passion for magical mysteries even further. Her prayers were answered, and she was initiated in the mysteries of magic.

She fled from home, but not before scandalizing the family by shaving off her beard. They would all tell her that she was going through a "phase" and would find Torag once more and join the priesthood, and she decreed that she would no longer be a dwarf if it meant being a slave to doctrine. Her journeys led her to Magnimar, the center of the empyreal cults in Varisia, and there she took up a job teaching the mysteries she had uncovered and the ways of metalworking beyond anything the younger races had known.

Her constant companion is a chatterbox of a familiar, a golden feathered bird with the temperament of a nanny. Named Rhodite after an obscure metallic alloy, the avian is constantly cleaning up after her mistress and remarking about what others might think of her deviant behavior.

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Gelda Herzwelt