Combosode that may confuse you. Yes it is a tavern talk and yes it is an companion episode for the Lightlessness campaign. Probably a bad idea to mix categories. But did you really want a 20 minute and then a 15 minute episode? Maybe you did…see below for Notch’s background semi discussed in episode.

* Notch is a Tiefling Warlock with a love of all things knowledge.

* Notch grew up in the city life of Piazza, where he lived in a shared dwelling with separate living spaces called a Seperatment.   He was always different from birth being one of the few pure tieflings that had come from a time his parents referred to as A-ru-drah (spoken like three barks) which was abyssal for the breaking of chains. He later grew up to learn from his parents what it really meant

* The human Murdok Stromal came to the land with ten thousand men of many races, majority elven and human. They were all slaves until Murdok led a rebellion and they fled from their land across the Tiber (Tib-er) ocean.  They worked within a plant creating clockworks for a man known as the Emerald King in the land of Samara, and had stolen parts over time to build a large raft like hovercraft which Murdok had designed. When it was completed Murdok convinced all the plant workers across a large whole of the land’s assemblies to destroy their work places and those clockworks that were in charge of reporting back to the King or winding his soldiers. They made it to the Land now known as Felicia and vowed to gain support through alliances and use their tools and knowledge to build up a force to protect if the Emerald King sent minions across the Ocean. Felicia was mainly inhabited by spaced out families of Elves, some druidic in nature, sects of dwarves which kept separate from the elves, and a united society of Dragonborns with provinces throughout the land.  The elves welcomed their brothers in the race among their people and supported their brother’s friends.  The dwarfs were promised technology from Samara if they were to share their land and help.  But the Dragonborns threatened to send the slaves back to their master as this was their way and beliefs.  Because of this the elves out of a desire to protect their kin, the dwarves interested in the technology, and Murdok with his army of ten thousand went to each province and asked for amnesty, if this was not granted they were forced to destroy that province.  Ultimately to this day no one has ever come from Samara to regain their slaves.

* Piazza is a shoreline town that is very expensive to live in.  Most of the people who live there are in charge of making and designing machines known as Forge.  Some big, some small, they all are based off exact engineering to run off fire, water, air, or wound gears.  There are those who sell smaller machines with less purpose to tourists, such as toys, or small noise makers known as alarms that hit a bell after a certain hour cycle when set.

* Notch was more or less accepted for his abyssal bloodline and qualities throughout his life, his parents had come from parents who knew the great evil of having freedom taken away and making machines of destruction.  Though the mature in his society never treated them negatively he was set apart in being the only pureblood Tiefling in all his learnings by the Half-Evlen Scholar Silvio. 

* Silvio always treated notch as a certain favorite due to more than their shared interest in books.  He had noticed from a young age that Notch had a spiritual understanding beyond his own and some link to that world.  Small things would happen when Notch engaged deeply in discussion about these beliefs in an Old One, which no one had ever taught him about. After assisting in the raising of Notch he saw that Notch was destined for more than being a Forge-head as he would refer too many of the kid’s parents on some occasions.