Gerblin

Gerblin is a female goblin and engineer that hails from the Eastlands. The party first met her when they were on their journey out to retrieve the first stella clavis. She's bubbly, talkative, and friendly when she's not hyper-focused on a task. She also has some mild trauma as a goblinoid which manifests itself as some self-esteem issues. She has a pretty high opinion of the party after they saved her from jackalweres and ensured she safely made it out of the desert.

Physical Description

General Physical Condition

Gerblin is small but actually a slight bit taller than your average goblin and weighs about what a person her size should weigh. Her skin is olive green and she wears a pair of goldish glasses over her round red eyes and looks like she could stand to get a bit more sleep. She keeps her white hair tied back in a messy pony tail and while her ears are quite large, her nose like many of the goblins native to the Eastlands is neither elongated or overly large. She has a heart shaped face and posses a slight overbite though this is only visible when she smiles which she is self-conscious about. Gerblin's build leans more towards the thin side which is complimented by the fact that she herself would prefer not to take on laborious tasks or to be any place where her physicality is the means in which she has to place her survival.

Special abilities

Like many goblins she possesses many weird quirks such as the ability to tell the approximate age of an item by taste.

Apparel & Accessories

Gerblin dresses in lighter clothes as you would expect of someone who lives in a desert region. She prefers an orange blouse and red vest when she is dressing casually and carries with her a necklace of a strange sharp tooth and a pair of bronze earrings that looks like little twisting horns. More often though you'll see her wearing work overalls, oversized gloves, and a cloth apron all typically stained or smeared with oil or other fluids that one commonly comes into contact with while performing repairs.

Mental characteristics

Personal history

Gerblin has brought up in conversation to the party that she's from one of the native goblin tribes but not wanting to live a life of hostility and idiocy she left to seek a safer life. Gerblin found that she had an interest in magic and technology but being a goblin meant that she wasn't well liked or given the opportunity to learn that she had wanted. Disheartened but not defeated Gerblin still did her best to learn through the use of stealth and observation to eventually glean the information and skills she needed to achieve her dream. Gerblin tried to put her skills to work as she honed them but was meet with similar distain once again due to being a goblin. Eventually she would be given what she believed to be a legitimate chance as she was hired by Prakat Karan to work as the engineer for his ship "The Desert Kiss" but unfortunately even this would turn out to not be the case as this was just a front for the clever jackalwere to lure unsuspecting passengers out to the desert. Luck finally did seem to favor Gerblin as while working onboard this ship she would meet the party who would go on to save her life and introduce her to Atam Radag who would officially give her the one thing she had been denied for the longest, a chance.

Gender Identity

Gerblin shortly talked about how in goblin society being tall and being female are important factors but that was the full extent she ever talked about it.

Sexuality

While Gerblin has not made any declaration about her sexuality she doesn't or at least hasn't shown any strong interest or strong repulsion to any one person.

Education

Gerblin was never allowed in the workshops to receive instruction from engineers or mechanics, she wasn't allowed to go to a school to learn how to use magic, and she was never generally welcome pretty much anywhere, and none of the things she knows now were ever things she could have learned while in her goblin tribe. Gerblin is entirely self-taught and while that means she is certainly not as apt as somebody with an official license or as magically gifted as somebody who was admitted to a school of magic she is incredibly diligent and passionate about learning.
Currently Gerblin is going through the official schooling process thanks to the efforts of The Relic Runners.

Employment

Formerly: Engineer for the Desert Kiss under the employment of Prakat Karan
Currently: Future engineer for The Dawnchaser under the employment of the Atam Conglomerate.

Accomplishments & Achievements

Taught herself the basics of ship engineering and magic theory through observation only.
Kept a barely functioning F-Core running and from exploding for days beyond where it should have.
Earned the respect of the party and received recognition for her engineering skills

Failures & Embarrassments

Leaving the goblin tribes to better herself only to be rejected time and time again
Being unable to get people to see past the fact that she is a goblin to acknowledge her potential or give her a chance to prove herself
Being deceived and nearly killed by the jackalwere Prakat Karan

Mental Trauma

Gerblin seems to suffer low self-esteem due to the fact that being a goblin has held her back significantly for almost all her life. She has been heard making deprecating comments about goblins while also acknowledging that she herself is a goblin. The party hasn't talked to her in full about every bad experience that she's been through but a short list during a night at dinner was enough for the party to understand that she's been through a lot just to get to where she is and that perhaps there are moments where she just barely holds onto hope that things will get better.

Intellectual Characteristics

Gerblin when not singularly focused on a specific task can be a bit capricious. The lack of formal schooling also means she has her own unique methods and understandings of how things work and how she approaches problems. She isn't the type who can give you a detailed lecture about how an f-core works or how it keeps a sandboat aloft and powered but she could absolutely show you which wires you should not touch and what parts are easily replaceable when a spare part is not on hand.

Morality & Philosophy

While Gerblin doesn't quite subscribe to the morality of the feral goblins of the Eastlands there is evidence that she does not have a strong moral leaning towards the law and prefers to do what she might believe is right as opposed to what is actually good.

Personality Characteristics

Motivation

Gerblin has a strong desire to learn how to be a better engineer and to prove herself.

Virtues & Personality perks

Gerblin is incredibly earnest and honest perhaps a bit to a fault

Vices & Personality flaws

Gerblin is sometimes a victim to her intrinsic goblin impulses which can lead to spur of the moment decisions that she later goes on to regret

Social

Contacts & Relations

Friends: Kaseem, Calligraphy, Gaius, Pip, Shush
Employer: Atam Radag
Enemies: Unknown if any

Family Ties

If Gerblin had a family back in the goblin tribes she either has not or does not wish to talk about them.

Social Aptitude

While perhaps charming in her own way Gerblin is not somebody one would describe as socially apt. Some might attribute this to her being a goblin but Gerblin does in fact just struggle to find footing in social situations.

Speech

Gerblin's voice is raspy and higher pitch

Wealth & Financial state

As a sandboat engineer she should actually be paid very well and while that might be changing in the future that is certainly not the case right now.

Current Status

Currently in training to become a licensed Sandship Engineer

Age

Currently unknown

Birthplace

Born to one of the goblin tribes of the Jha'Mon desert

Sex

Female

Gender

Woman

Presentation

Feminine

Eyes

Round, red eyes, and round gold trimmed glasses

Hair

Long, white, pulled into a wavy pony tail

Skin Tone/Pigmentation

Olive green and often coated with smudges of oil or soot

Height

3'7"

Weight

47 lbs

Quotes & Catchphrases

"No offense to me but..."

Belief/Deity

If Gerblin is religious she has not revealed that to the party

Known Languages

Common, Goblin