Gordon Stonemaul

## Overview

Mad alchemist who made the Green Wedding possible.

## Biography

Gordon Stonemaul was an alchemist devoted to achieving power and immortality by fusing his mortal flesh with fae sorcery. While he was ultimately unsuccessful in this endeavor, he was a capable transmuter and discovered the secret of weaponizing creeper toxin, which was eventually used by the Dust to assassinate Nerath Reynaud and as a weapon of mass destruction during the Green Wedding.

While Gordon did not subscribe to the Dust's philosophy, he was more than willing to accept their patronage. However, Altair and Gordon were frequently at odds for a variety of reasons, and Kenton was at least mildly uncomfortable with Gordon's wanton disregard for sentient life.

Gordon was eventually tracked down and killed in Maladomini by the Outcaste.

## Gordon's Journal

**FIVE YEARS AGO**

EXPERIMENTS ON ANIMALS ARE NO LONGER SUFFICIENT. FULL SENTIENT TESTING IS THE ONLY WAY TO DETERMINE IF THE FORMULA WILL WORK. THIS WILL BE EASILY ACCOMPLISHED BY SIGNING UP FOR THIRD SHIFT AT THE NUTRIENT VATS AND ADDING THE NECESSARY REAGENTS WHEN NO ONE IS LOOKING.

…

TESTING WAS INTERRUPTED BY THE QUALITY CONTROL DEPARTMENT. IDIOTS. STILL, THE RESULTS WERE VERY CONCLUSIVE … AND NOT WHAT I HAD HOPED FOR. A SHAME THEY FED IT TO ORCS FIRST – I WOULD HAVE PREFERRED DATA ON FELLOW DWARVES.

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I KNOW THEY THINK I HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE TAINTED BATCH OF GRUEL. FORTUNATELY, THEY CAN PROVE NOTHING. HOWEVER, I AM SURE THEY ARE WATCHING ME.

I NEED TO MOVE ELSEWHERE IF MY RESEARCH IS TO CONTINUE.

**TWO YEARS AGO**

DIS HAS FALLEN. IS IT POSSIBLE THERE WAS ANOTHER INVESTIGATOR LIKE MYSELF, BUT WHO WAS LESS CAUTIOUS WITH HIS BYPRODUCTS THAN ME? THAT WOULD MEAN THE FALL WAS NOT SO MUCH A FAERIE ATTACK AS IT WAS THE MISSAPPLICATION OF ALCHEMY.

I WONDER.

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MY FUNDS ARE DWINDLING, BUT I AM CLOSE TO BECOMING A LORD. I CAN FEEL IT. I JUST NEED MORE TIME.

…

APPROACHED BY “K,” WHO CLAIMED TO BE A MEMBER OF SOME SORT OF REVOLUTIONARY GROUP. I NODDED AND PRETENDED TO CARE WHEN HE SPOKE OF HIS PRINCIPLES. ALL HE WANTS IS FOR ME TO PROVIDE A FEW RADICAL MUTAGENS NOW AND THEN.

EASILY DONE.

THE MONEY IS NOT MUCH, BUT IT WILL BE ENOUGH FOR MY RESEARCH TO CONTINUE. IT WILL JUST GO MORE SLOWLY THAN I WOULD LIKE.

**LAST YEAR**

HE HAS RECRUITS NOW, WHICH MEANS I HAVE ASSISTANTS. I THINK IF I AM CAREFUL AND INVENT GOOD EXCUSES, THEY WILL MAKE GOOD TEST SUBJECTS.

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AFTER THE THIRD “ACCIDENT,” K ACCUSED ME OF MURDER. I SHOWED HIM THE IMPROVED PATHOGENS I WAS ABLE TO MAKE AS A RESULT OF THEIR SACRIFICE.

NOT THAT IMPROVED PATHOGENS WERE THE POINT OF THE EXPERIMENTS, BUT HE DOESN’T NEED TO KNOW THAT.

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I AM IMMUNE TO POISON NOW. I WILL BE A LORD SOON.

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THERE IS MONEY, SUDDENLY. K WILL NOT SAY WHERE IT COMES FROM, AND I SUPPOSE I DO NOT ACTUALLY CARE. BUT IT IS HARD NOT TO THINK IT HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE MECHANIST WHO RECENTLY JOINED OUR RANKS.

**RECENTLY**

MY GOAL IS AT LAST WITHIN SIGHT. MY BODY IS ALMOST TOTALLY PERMEATED WITH THE ALCHEMICAL POWER OF THE FEY. WHEN THAT IS DONE, I WILL NEED ONLY TO PURGE MY MORTAL FLESH TO COMPLETE THE TRANSFORMATION AND BECOME A LORD.

THEY WILL TREMBLE BEFORE ME THEN, MEN AND FAE BOTH. I WILL BE PURER AND MORE POWERFUL THAN ANY OF THEM.

## Interactions with PCs

Gordon was tracked down to a warehouse in Maladomini and killed, but not before transforming himself into something monstrous. Paperwork in his lab was later used to locate Kenton.