Vira Glittergem

Vira Glittergem is a gnome artificer and former secret agent of Arcadia.

## Appearance

Vira is a small gnome with light brown skin, amber eyes, and short silver hair. She wears a suit of worn scale mail.

## Personality

Vira has a hardened exterior and clear aspirations to be a great artificer. She is outwardly very sarcastic and insulting, preferring to distance herself from people she doesn't know well. She is also vengeful and doesn't tend to forget insults herself. She is also a heavy drinker, often carrying at least ten flasks of alcohol.

## Biography

Vira comes from a family of gnomes in Arcadia who used to be miners before her ancestor Warryn was knighted as a lord for discovering the bunk of Arcadia's crown jewels.

As a teenager, Vira learned artificer magic from Midmoor, but she went to the Art of Intelligence college after the standard five years of magic education. When Vira graduated, she worked in espionage as an agent for the agency that would eventually evolve into the Fleetwood Agency of Intelligence, Reconnaissance, Investigation & Execution.

Vira's agency was hired as an outsource for the Lycian Acid Snakes to try to track down Paulus Rosch, who Constance Keenore suspected was alive. Vira spent two years undercover searching for any traces of Rosch. Most of her investigation led to dead ends but she eventually tracked him down to Ironkeg Inn and Tavern, where she discovered that Rosch had faked his death and took on the name Garth Elderfellow and made a new life for himself. Garth noticed Vira eyeing him in the tavern during the day and told her to meet him in a field that night. When they met, Garth was prepared to fight her to retain his anonymity, but Vira decided not to turn him in, since in the time she took to find him, Keenore got less and less suspicious that he was truly alive.

A week after finding Garth, Vira retired from espionage and began honing her skills as an artificer. She started working for the Royal Artificer's Guild in the basement of the palace of Arcadia.

While foraging for old metal parts, Vira found the head of an old warforged who had lost his memories. Vira took him back to her workshop with the intent of building him a new body, one of her biggest projects. She named him Ben Whiskey after her favorite alcoholic drink and because Ben was the only name he could remember.

## Relationships

### Friends

* Spider: Spider is Vira's main construct and acts almost like a wizard's familiar. Spider helps her transport things and people, mainly her collection of flasks.
* Ben Whiskey: Ben is a warforged head that Vira foraged out of a pile of scrap metal and took him to her workshop with the intent of building him a new body. Vira and Ben like snarking at each other. Vira named him after her favorite alcoholic drink. When her workshop was set on fire, Vira focused on saving Ben first.

### Allies

* Akilius Quilla: Vira's wispling coworker in the basement of the palace.
* Dr. Astriva Loctavian: A smuggler and Vira's source for smokepowder, black powder, and other explosives.

### Enemies

* Pallasar Rosserton: Vira dislikes Pallasar, as he is the brother of the man who killed her brother. She finds it difficult to work with him.

## Abilities

* Artificer Magic: As an artificer, Vira uses inventions to channel her magic.
* Smithing: As a battle smith, Vira is skilled in making constructs that channel magic and help in battle.
* Sleight of hand: Vira is decent at trickery and sleight of hand.