Mikimek

Level 3 Kobold Merchant

*"NO MORE STABS! PLEASE, I BEG OF YOU! NOOOOO!"*

*-Mikimek interacting with people clearly not about to stab him.*

 Mikimek is an NPC from Kingmaker. Sent by his clan to steal back a religious idol snatched away by the Mites of Old Sycamore, Mikimek found himself facing certain doom- until a group of explorers happened upon the cage he found himself trapped in.

## Description

Mikimek is a Kobold, leaving him at about 3'2. He has dark scales, marking him as part of the Sootscale Clan, with a pair of draconic horns and snaggleteeth. His voice is high and shrill, especially when he screams- which he does often. He is described as having a frill around his neck, which he flairs while experiencing intense anger or vindication.

## Personality

Mikimek is a coward, first and foremost. It was his cowardice that saved his life when he was captured by Mites, since his screams of terror amused them enough to cage him instead of kill him like the others. When in the presence of a stronger force, he immediately sidles up to them, attempting to curry their favour with strings of compliments, attaching titles to their names such as "Alden the Powerful" or "Kaska the Kind". Mikimek is also particularly good at manipulation, able to guilt the Kingmakers into aiding him on his quest to return the Statue of Old Sawtooth home rather than continue on their own quest with the Bandits. He is also prone to fits of hysteria, blurting out the first thing that should come to mind... even when he really shouldn't.

## Abilities

While not a particularly capable fighter, Mikimek is a shrewd businessman, able to con people who should know better into buying his goods. He's also a relatively skilled blacksmith, able to craft items like The Ring Of The Ram for Ichor Eteocles- although it may not have been of high quality, the blame lies at least partly with his business parter Nakpik.

## History

Mikimek 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 was one of the Kobolds sent to retrieve it.

Mikimek entered Old Sycamore with a squad of Kobolds, but was the only survivor. He was caged by his captors and prodded with spears by them until the Kingmakers happened upon the scene, slaying the Mites and rescuing Mikimek. The Kingmakers agreed to help him, and traveled deeper into Old Sycamore, eventually facing off against the leader of the Mites, Grabbles. Upon retrieving the idol, Mikimek loudly cheered and screeched out "Death to Tartuk!", prompting an investigation by the Kingmakers. He told them his people's story, and convinced them to return with him to the Clan. The Kingmakers aided in fending off Tartuk, and Mikimek pledged himself to be in debt to the Kingmakers.

In 4711, Mikimek was present when the Kingmakers visited Chief Sootscale and met with both him and the Troll King, Hargulka. Mikimek had taken part in the overhunting 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 microstate; one which the Kingmakers would aid in, but not interfere with.

Over the next few years, as Sootscale Hill grew, Mikimek set up his own artisanal crafter's shop named Mikimek & Nakpik's Store. He 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 millenia ago), Sootscale further clarified that no, they were in fact made of iron.

## Relationships

### Nakpik

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 to being female by using her races' sequential hermaphroditism, he supported her fully.