Connects to: 06.05.
Rising out of the plain of the Westmarches is a small stone cairn that was raised by the dwarf Dagmar for his brother. Although Dagmar made sure that his brother’s body was stripped bare after his death, the bones still remain. Dagmar, although hardly the sentimental type, occasionally returns here to brood over his brother’s bones, get raging drunk and scream curses at them.
This Dagmar does a good job of playing the role of a dour and serious dwarven smith, but is nothing of the sort. Pretending to be a smith helps him sell his second-hand weapons and armor and acting like the stuffy honorable dwarves he tries to keep as far away from as possible, make it that much harder for people to tell that he’s robbing them blind. He has dabbled in everything from petty theft, to peddling, to fencing and pawning, to iron mongering to loan sharking, but is seldom able to focus his attention on one thing long enough to make much money. One of his favorite marks are fighting men strong enough to get their hands on valuable loot but ignorant enough to not know its full value.
Dagmar’s greatest weakness (aside from his love for exotic beer) is that while he loves gold, he loves proving just how much smarter he is than everyone else he meets far more. This means that he loves dramatic plots, big hauls and anything that would make a good story rather than quiet steady profits. For example, when trying to sell several crates of surplus chainmail he faced stiff competition in the form of giant stag beetle plate armor and somehow managed to get his hands on fire beetle eggs and buried them around the edges of the badlands (06.05) in order to kill off his competitor’s supply of stag beetles, when simply lowering his prices would’ve been far easier.
Despite all of this Dagmar is still a dwarf and refuses to sleep above ground (digging trenches at night if necessary) and perhaps there is some honor in him buried down under the greed.
Hooks:
- Who’s making the stag beetle shell armor that Dagmar is trying to sabotage?
- What other mad schemes are worming their way through Dagmar’s head?
- What was the cause of the death of Dagmar’s brother?
