Gruden Rockseeker

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### ***Early Life***

Gruden and his brothers **Tharden** & **Nundro** were born in a small mining settlement near **Neverwinter**. They're mother and father worked in the mines, and would expect their children do the same. But as the young dwarves came of age however they would find themselves not only drifting away from the small town, but each other.

Each brother would go off to spend their early years pursuing different passions. Gruden would lose contact with them shortly after, and would pursue a domestic life in a brewery as an apprentice. But after a year he would grow bored of the domestic life and would find himself drifting towards the life of adventure. This would lead Gruden to pursuing a position in the Adventurers Guild as a hand for hire...

### ***Meeting The Guy***

Many years after Gruden left home and became a hand for hire for the Adventurers Guild, he would find himself on the island Nation of Enora to explore some ruins for the Mages Guild. During this time Gruden would meet a young human assigned to the same job. The two shared an interest in music, which would spark a friendship between the two.

They would complete a few jobs together, and would strengthen their bond in their short time together. Gruden would eventually return to Faerun in search of more work, leaving Guy and Enora behind.

### ***Time with the Lord's Alliance***

Gruden would return to Neverwinter, and would take a short vacation exploring taverns like the famous "Come on Inn". During this time he would meet **Sildar Hallwinter**, a regular at the Tavern who lived upstairs. He was a human in his early 50s, and would become good friends with Gruden, offering him a position within the Lord's Alliance. Gruden would opt for more of a more Associate-Like title to avoid being tied down, and would begin working with Sildar under contract.

### ***Phandalin***

While working with Sildar, Gruden would be contacted by his brother Nundro for the first time in years in a letter. Nundro would be writing to Gruden and Tharden to reunite the band of brothers to locate and plunder the illusive, and possibly fictional cave of Wave Echo Cave. Sildar would catch wind of this, and by extension the Lord's Alliance would hear of this as well. The Lords Alliance would offer to give the initial funding for the operation, and would send Sildar to the nearby Phandalin, to check on Iarno Albrek whom they lost contact with a month prior.

Setting off to meet his brothers with initial supplies, he would pre-order an additional resupply, and wrote a letter to Guy in Enora to join him on the job. Along the way to Phandalin however, both Sildar and Gruden would be kidnapped by goblins, and Gruden would be taken to Cragmaw Castle, enduring weeks of torture.

### ***Death of the last Rockseeker***

Gruden would be tortured by goblins, bugbears, and shapeshifters for weeks, before finally giving up the suspected location of Wave Echo Cave, to the Black Spider, 2 or 3 days before The Drifters could save him. However before he could be rescued, his life-force was absorbed by one of the Black Spiders doppelgangers henchmen. He died, unknowing if any of his friends or family would live or die. And to make this a tragedy, Gruden died not knowing his brothers died just days before he did. Nundro to an attack by undead, and Tharden to the Black Spider...

He was buried outside Phandalin in a nice grave on a nearby hill, often visited by Sildar and Elmer Barthen, who share his favorite brand of whiskey and play cards. The soon to be constructed Phandalin Adventuring Guild, will be in part named after him as the official title is the "Rockseeker Adventuring Guild". On top of that he is to be mentioned in a book titled "The Black Spider's Web", that Sildar is working on in his retirement.