Keygan Ghelve

MALE GNOME WIZARD 4
*Real name: Keygan Ghelve
*Occupation: master locksmith
*Identity: publicly known
*Legal status: citizen of Cauldron with no criminal record
*Place of birth: Jzadirune, beneath Cauldron (age 111)
*Marital status: married
*Known relatives: Katia (wife); sister (unnamed); Jasper Drundlesput (nephew)
*Group affiliation: independent
*Base of operations: Ghelve's Locks, Cauldron
*Eyes: black
*Hair: salt and pepper
*Skin: tan
*First Appearance: Ghelve's Locks, Cauldron / 5 Rova 4703
==History and Personality==
Keygan Ghelve is a 111-year-old, gnomish locksmith, with salt and pepper hair and a neatly trimmed mustache and goatee. His bushy eyebrows, creased face, and graven frown make him look frumpy and dour, but he posses a sly wit, an agile intellect, and a close and familiar manner. He is the owner of Ghelve's Locks, in Cauldron, the most reputable in the region, and he has created most of the city's locks. When not spending hours honing his arts with doors and locks, Keygan has another guilty pleasure: cooking. Keygan is an exceptional cook, and greatly enjoys a good meat and potato stew.
The back room of Ghelve's Locks connects through a trapdoor to one of the only known entrances to the abandoned city of Jzadirune. This would force his involvement him in a recent wave of disappearances in the city of Cauldron.
===Keygan's Involvement in the Kidnappings===
Three months before the kidnappings became public, Tiervan Wispwort, Aeryk Gylbar (a local barrister) and Keygan Ghelve were sitting in the locksmith's front room, as they often did, smoking pipe tobacco and exchanging gossip. Ghelve confessed that, for weeks, he had been having the feeling of being watched, but couldn't put his finger on why.
Almost as if in answer, a group of skulks appeared from behind his curtain. The shaky dialogue that began convinced the gnomes that the creatures had come up from Jzadirune. The gnomes were amazed. The three of them had spent time in Jzadirune, in their youth, before the Vanishing. Their memories of that time were fond, but distant, and they began to dream of going back to visit. The skulks promised that gnomish artifacts still remained and that they would be willing to take the gnomes back down to visit.
Tiervan's alchemy business wasn't exactly thriving and he lept at the opportunity to return to Jzadirune to see if he could recover some of the potions that had once made it famous. Aeryk's law practice was more successful, and the barrister didn't report feeling the need to return immediately but, the next day, sent his law clerk, Jorl Seerkin, to look for historical records that may be useful. Keygan was tempted to explore Jzadirune, but remembered his father's warnings about the Vanishing and how terrible it was.
In exchange, the skulks wanted a set of skeleton keys which they said would better help them explore Jzadirune. Tiervan urged Keygan to make them the keys and, against his better judgement, Keygan agreed.
After Tiervan and Jorl had been missing for a couple of months, Keygan confronted the skulks over the whereabouts of his friends. The creatures refused to answer his questions. When Keygan threatened to go to the guards, the skulks responded by kidnapping Jasper Drundlesput, Keygan's youngest sister's youngest son. The message was clear: keep quiet.
When the Keepers of the Cauldron arrived, Keygan seized the opportunity enlist their aid in finding his missing nephew and friends.
===Adventures Involving Keygan===
* Ghelve's Locks
* Vanishing in Jzadirune
* The Malachite Fortress
Category:Keepers of the Cauldron
Category:Wizards
Category:NPCs