Nakpik

Level 3 Kobold Merchant

*"Aw, hey, Mikimek!"*

*-Nakpik*

Nakpik is an NPC from Kingmaker. Tasked with the duty of guarding the entrance to Sootscale Hill by Chief Sootscale, Nakpik chose to allow The Kingmakers entry to the Kobold Settlement... only for this to land them in hot water with Tartuk moments later.

## Description

Nakpik is a Kobold, leaving her at about 3'2. She has dark scales, marking her as part of the Sootscale Clan, with a pair of draconic horns and snaggleteeth. Nakpik started out the adventure as male, but got bored of it and used her ancestry's sequential hermaphroditism to transition into female later on. The differences are difficult to see, but she's happy.

## Personality

Nakpik is relatively relaxed at all times; when the going gets tough, she just kind of endures it. She's rarely surprised or confused, perhaps because she's just too oblivious to understand her own impending peril and doom in certain situations. She gladly takes orders from anyone who gives them, be it Tartuk or Chief Sootscale, and rarely ever complains.

## Abilities

Nakpik is a decently strong combatant; while she would likely not be a threat to many stronger opponents, she's able to hold off weaker ones when she puts her back into it. Nakpik is also an impressively hard worker, doing a lot of the tasks Mikimek doesn't feel like taking care of himself, which is a lot of them.

## History

Nakpik was born in 4695 as part of the Sootscale Clan of Kobolds in the Greenbelt. In 4710, an outsider came to the Clan- a Kobold named Tartuk who brought with him a Religious Idol named Old Sharptooth, a
statuette of a dragon which he claimed was giving him instructions from beyond the beyond. Tartuk, actually a re-incarnated gnome who hated Kobolds with a burning passion, intended to destroy the clan from the
inside out by sending them to their dooms on the orders of Old Sharptooth. When he had the Sootscales engage in a war with the Mites of Old Sycamore (a fight they could not, in the long run, win), there was an incident whereupon the statuette was stolen by the Mites- and Mikimek, Nakpik's closest friend, was one of the Kobolds sent to retrieve it.

Mikimek later returned with The Kingmakers, who claimed they were going to help sort out the Tartuk problem. Though initially hesitant, Nakpik quickly relented and forewent her job as a border guard to allow them to enter. This angered Tartuk, who asked who had let them in, causing the entire clan to stare at Nakpik. Tartuk claimed that Old Sharptooth was demanding the Kobolds sacrifice Nakpik next, which caused her some moderate stress. Eventually, though, the Kingmakers helped fend off Tartuk, and Nakpik was saved.

In 4711, Nakpik was present when the Kingmakers visited Chief Sootscale and met with both him and the Troll King, Hargulka. Nakpik had taken part in the over-hunting of the area in preparation for the Troll's visit, and was there to witness the Kingmaker's deal with Chief Sootscale that would see him assigned a Viceroy of his own independent micro-state; one which the Kingmakers would aid in, but not interfere
with.

Over the next few years, as Sootscale Hill grew, Nakpik set up her own artisanal crafter's shop named Mikimek & Nakpik's Store, and transitioned genders into female. She sold the Kingmakers numerous goods, such as Ichor's Ring of the Ram and Alden's Greater Knapsack of Halflingkind. In 4715, when the Kingmakers left to enter the Thousandbreaths, Viceroy Sootscale delivered a set of "powerful rings" crafted by Mikimek and Nakpik to them. When asked what they could do, Sootscale clarified they were "not magic rings, just made
 of powerful metal." When Kaska inquired if this meant they'd used Skymetal (a type of Numerian metal that crashed to Golarion as part of the spaceships which landed in the nation millennia ago), Sootscale further clarified that no, they were in fact made of iron.

## Relationships

### Mikimek

Nakpik and Mikimek have been firm friends for life. The two
enthusiastically greeted one another when Mikimek returned from Old Sycamore, and stayed by each others' side since. The duo eventually set
up a business together, and when Nakpik decided to transition, Mikimek supported her fully.