Why is it that all you types want to know a dwarf's life history? Can't you just accept that not all of us have done fascinating things with our lives. Just because we're a proper sort of build, and don't look like we're stretched on a rack, doesn't mean that we're more likely to go charging off into danger than anyone else. When you get right down to it, we're less likely to... we're part of what's right with the world, so we can be content to let others deal with the problems they've created. Still here? Ok, ok. I'm Od, son of Brogan, Builder of the City of Llorn. Phhht. No, I didn't build the city of Llorn, you dimwit. I'm identifying my guild. We're registered with the Merchant's Guild, of course, but by banding into a sub-guild, we're able to cover for those who have a bit of a rough year. My family hasn't had a rough year in my century of life, nor in any of the three centuries my grandfather has been head of the Solid Edge Building Company.

My great-great grandfather, Egil Bjarkisson, came down out of the Bruu-Ga-Belimar, and helped to build Llorn, and then established the Solid Edge Building Company, which he passed on to Thorolf Egilsson, who in turn passed it on to Od Thorolfsson, who still runs it today. I'm the fifth Master Builder in our line; given twenty more years, my boys Egil and Bjarki should be the seventh and eigth. Their mother, may Epim keep her close, passed on giving birth to my girl Thorgerd... she's just old enough now to apprentice to her grandfather.

Our family has always held to the Northern Gods, especially Belimar, the Builder. Each act of creation by a dwarf is an homage to Belimar, be it pounding out a sword, shaping a breastplate, or planing down a board and setting it into a house frame. Because of this, he blessed us with the finest hands and greatest building skills of all the races. Only when a dwarf's hands are building something is it perfectly made; a dwarf's hand in the creation of something makes it holy. The Gods of Light and Darkness don't understand the need for a dwarf to build; drove that Bes mad, it did, them trying to keep him from building a better world. They may know magic and other unholy things, but they just don't understand the rightness of the world... a rightness that you find in the hands of a dwarf, creating the world one piece at a time.

Od Brogansson
Real Name: Od Holten (the Holten family name is kept a secret; it's tradition to go by the father's name plus the suffix of -sson or -dottir, and pretend that is the actual tradition within the family)
IQ: 15
ME: 13
MA: 17
PS: 24
PP: 27
PE: 18
PB: 15
Spd: 16; 6 digging

HP: 27
SDC: 30
ISP: 28
PPE: 14
Level: 3
X.P.: 4121

Psionics: Minor Psychic: Ectoplasm, Levitation

Ht: 4'1"
Wt: 175#
Age: 118
Description: Od is tall for a dwarf, with blue-black hair and blue eyes. He tends to have a very distinct superiority complex... dwarves are simply the best there are, and he's the best of the dwarves. Others who follow the Northern Gods (especially Belimar) are marginally better than others... and those who follow the Gods of Light are just pitiful.

Natural Abilities
90ft Nightvision
Underground Abilities (see OCC Skills)
Metalworking abilities (see OCC Skills)

OCC Skills:
Underground Tunneling: 50% +5% per level
Underground Architecture: 40% +5% per level
Underground Sense of Direction: 50%/40% +5% per level
Metalworking: 50% +5% per level
Recognize Precious Metals and Stones: 45% +5% per level
Appraise Goods: 50% +5% per level
Mathermatics: Basic 75% +5% per level
Speak Dwarf 98%
Speak Northern 65% +5% per level
Speak Eastern 65% +5% per level
Literacy: Dwarf 55% +5% per level
Art (drafting) 75% +5% per level
Sew 45% +5% per level
General Repair 55% +5% per level
Carpentry 50% +5% per level
Sculpting/Whittling 55% +5% per level
Hand to Hand: Basic

OCC Related Skills:
Rope Works 50% +5% per level
Masonry 50% +5% per level
Lore: Religion (Northern Religion, Church of Light, Church of Dark, Church of Light and Dark, Pantheon of Rurga, Elementalism): 45% +5% per level
Lore: Geomancy and Ley Lines: 40% +5% per level
Locate Secret Compartments: 55% +5% per level
W.P. Blunt +2 strike and parry
Wrestling (3rd level)
Literacy: Elf 40% +5% per level (3rd level)

Secondary Skills:
Professional Quality on skills (Sculpting/Whittling, Art)
Speak Elf 40% +5% per level
Speak Gobbley 40% +5% per level

Combat Abilities
4 attacks per melee
+9 damage
+6 strike (+8 with blunt)
+8 parry (+10 with blunt)
+8 dodge
+3 roll with punch/fall/impact
+2 pull punch
+6% vs. coma/death
+3 vs magic
+2 vs poison
+2 vs. possession
+2 vs. horror factor

Equipment:
One set of traveling clothes (boots, gloves, soft leather breeches and tunic, with a heavy belt)
One set of work clothes (thick leather boots, gloves, tunic and breeches, with an apron/belt and several cloths to tie around his head, plus a visor)
One set of fine clothing (linen shirt and pants, with leather vest, boots, and belt, plus a wide-brimmed hat)
2 sets of tools (woodworking and stonemasonry; in a pinch can be combined into a set of metalworking tools for basic work)
Chisel, Mallet, small hammer, carving knives, pouch of 100 2" nails, chalk, drawing lead, sketch book
Small wooden cross, bedroll, backpack, large sack, small sack, water skin, tinder box

Weapons:
Dagger
Warhammer (dwarven quality; +1 to damage; was a special gift from a client when, through quick action, Od managed to save about 10,000 gold pieces worth of stock from being ruined by a sudden storm)

Armor:
Hard Leather (AR 11, SDC 30... purchased just for this trip)