Roggirth, God of Invention

Roggirth is the God of Invention, and is responsible for the creation of the Gnomes. He is the sixth child of Syvl and Kevolah, and is the twin brother of Fortas.

## Origins and Creations

Mogus was born to Syvl and Kevolah during the First Era. During this time, he created the gnomes of Somara.

Roggirth did not spend much time governing or guiding his people but he did grant them all sparks of imagination that gives the gnomes their creativity and ingenuity.

## Appearance

When Roggirth appears to mortals in Somara, he always takes the form of a gnome of average height and build. He has wiry, dark brown hair, and has a pair of spectacles on his sharp, hawkish nose.

He wears an oversized coat with hundreds of pockets, and it is said that he can pull out anything he needs from any of the pockets, no matter the size or rarity. On his waist, he wears a tool belt with all sorts of tools, some of which he invented himself.

When he prepares for battle, he dons a suit of powered armor that contains dozens of weapons and features, including flight, lasers, and heat and cold-proof insulation. If he needs a weapon, and is not in his armor, he will often pull out a slingshot and fire bits of screws, nails, and other metal bits at his foes. Rarely, he will also use a prototype dwarven hand-cannon capable of firing hot metal ammunition at high speeds.

## Personality

Roggirth is endlessly curious and can ask anyone questions for hours, in order to learn all there is to know about them. He also is constantly constructing different machines and inventions, always plotting some new blueprint in his head.

Roggirth is full of boundless energy, he can rarely sit still and is always tinkering with some device or doing something with his hands. In practice, this makes him difficult to deal with, as his short attention span can wildly derail conversations to topics he finds more interesting.

Roggirth will often appear to great inventors of any race who have created something something extraordinary, to study and digest it for his own experimentation later on. He only appears to gnomes who ask for advice if it pertains to some sort of creation or invention, which he happily and freely gives.

Roggirth is often content to live in his own world, rarely interfering in mortal affairs. However, if something threatens him or his people's livelihoods, he can be motivated into action, employing dozens of wondrous and bizarre inventions to deter and harm his enemies.

His favorite gift to grant is that of divine inspiration, planting ideas and blueprints in the heads of his followers, so that they may create wondrous things to share with all of gnome-kind.

## Worship

Worship of Roggirth is in an odd place in Somara. Temples devoted to him are almost nonexistent, and some joke that workshops and laboratories of inventors are the "real" Temples of Roggirth.

He only grants clerical powers to his followers (most of which are gnomes, but gifted inventors and creators of any race can earn his favor) to allow them to augment and advance inventive projects. As a result, they typically fall under either the Arcana or Knowledge Domains.

The Arcane Technicians is an offshoot of the Circle of Worun based in the Culean Triumvirate that reveres Roggirth. They are a selective group of Artificers, Scholars, and Wizards that extensively study the integration of technology and magic. Prospective members must have invented something wondrous, and must be invited into the group.