Marish Muscoria

Marish Muscoria is a rock gnome inventor and alchemist from the Greycloak Hills. Though certainly not a household name, Marish is well known among the maker communities of the Sword Coast for a wide variety of clever magical and non-magical inventions. Marish is larger than most gnomes, both in height and girth, leading to rumors by some (mainly jealous rivals) that he has dwarven ancestry. One of his trademarks are his meticulously oiled moustaches (which he styles straight to the sides with a curl at the ends) and beard (which projects in seven points around his face).

Though he is a talented magic user himself, Marish is outspoken about the exclusivity of magic in the Sword Coast, especially criticizing the cost and lack of access of magical services to the average citizen. As such, he specializes in creating devices that use mechanical and alchemical means to mimic magical effects in repeatable and mass producible ways. He owns workshops in several cities including Waterdeep, Baldur’s Gate, and others, where his devices are manufactured and sold. As such, most sources report him to be quite wealthy, though he is also known to be dismissive of money and has a reputation for donating the bulk of his wealth to various charities and other concerns.

Among these are many scholarly and archaeological pursuits, which, by all accounts, Marish funds almost compulsively. He is well-known for his deep love of ancients worlds and civilizations and has spent much of his life searching for an sharing the wisdom of the ancients with the modern world. He had commissioned or written many books one various ancient cultures, magicks, and technologies.

Marish has recently gained some notoriety for being one of the only non-dwarves to be allowed into the mines below Citadel Abdar. While neither Marish nor the Abdarran dwarves are forthcoming about the purpose for this historic exception, many of Marish’s rivals speculate that it had to do with one or both of Marish’s rumored current projects:
 *  · ·Though little is known of either of these projects, sources close to Marish suggest that he has invested considerable resources into both projects, which support his ever growing interest in ancient worlds. Marish is currently in possession of: 1 brass cube, part of the Zenythri Triplicate (he had 2 but one was stolen) 3 journals kept by Icanus Deepmelder in the strange language which is tattooed on his face. These journals detail Icanus' torture and efforts to deconstruct Nife in efforts to discover some secret hidden in the architecture of Nife's body. Though he never outright says what he's looking for, it's clear he thinks there's a puzzle hidden in Nife that he wants a solution to and he tried both investigation and torture to find it.  