Lugas Smith

Lugas was a skilled blacksmith who moved to Relford some years ago. An Iron League sympathizer, Lugas was recently contacted by an agent of the Iron League, who had discovered a small cache of mithral and adamantine. The League sought Lugas’ expertise to forge weapons from the cache. Barad Wolfram, Relford’s other blacksmith and a rival of Lugas was secretly in awe of Lugas’ talents. The two had turned their rivalry into a friendship of sorts; using a series of one-upmanship to stay in contact with one another. One evening, Lugas showed Barad an adamantine battleaxe he had crafted from the cache, Barad’s jealousy took over. Barad came back that night and set Lugas’ Smithy alight. Lugas ran to the smithy in an attempt to battle the inferno but was wholly consumed by the conflagration. The family’s adjoining house became filled with thick smoke, causing the suffocating deaths of Lugas’ wife and two children. The house suffered soot damage and the interior still reeks of smoke, but has been left untouched by superstitious Relford locals
Lugas’ spirit does not rest peacefully. If anyone enters the house and starts rifling through any belongings, ash swirls from the forge, panicking the rats if they have not already been disturbed. The forge ash gathers in the area of the house where the offending party is, coalescing into a humanoid form that reeks of smoke and charred flesh. Intense heat radiates from its form and a pall of ash shrouds it, blurring and obscuring the creature.