Aristom Eldeth

Aristom "Ivory Hands" Eldeth was an elvish exile-turned-famed-desperado of the Telranian wastes. After being maimed by the Red Woman and disappearing from public view for several years, Aristom undertook a blood-soaked quest for vengeance: when the gunsmoke cleared, a Kobold revolution had been effectuated, the McKeough mining clan wiped out, Auric Vintel's secret Telrion project ruined (and Vintel killed) and Aristom found himself the very unlikely governor of Telrion.
== Exile and Early Career ==
Aristom's career as a gunslinger on Telrion began with train robberies and a number of showdowns with famed duelists. He became renowned as an astonishingly quick draw and a spectacular shot, so fast that he eschewed armor because it "slowed him down." At the height of his early career, it was said that Aristom could kill five men in as many seconds. More often, he would prefer to shoot four and let the fifth live to tell the tale. While certainly the fastest gun on Telrion, Aristom was far from the most perceptive, and he acquired his signature mechanical hands as a result of a brutal ambush by the legendary Red Woman.
While drinking alone in a dusty frontier bar one night, Aristom (who in those days refused all company) was surprised by a brilliant blade slicing from above him and severing both his hands before he could even begin to draw. Maimed, in shock and bleeding horrendously, the elvish gunslinger managed to throw himself from the bar and out a nearby window, escaping into a terrible dust storm, disappearing both from the Red Woman and, for a time, from public knowledge.
== The Red Woman ==
Having lost both hands to the Red Woman before he could draw, Aristom would gain his mechanical substitutes through the occult cybernetic craft of one Shakar, giving up his family's heirloom ivory sword for materials and swearing to repay Shakar with some favor in the future.
In his quest for vengeance against the Red Woman, Aristom would explore many strange and desolate locales, including an ancient tomb whose cursed air left the elf with a wasting consumption. Unable to find any trace of the woman (or creature) that had maimed him and with tuberculosis eating at his lungs, Aristom slipped into obscurity for some years, drifting from town to town gambling and brazenly cheating in hopes that someone would be foolish enough to draw down on him and, maybe, fast enough to end his life.
== Revenge ==
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