Malach

Malachite Stoutfist is a mountain dwarf from a prestigious noble clan of the Dwarven city of Rumadir. He worked as a librarian, cataloging and chronicling stonelore and dwarven history. When he was a young adult, about 70 years of age, he stumbled on some troubling information, indicating that members of the most prestigious clans had over the years razed settlements of a number of different other races in order to gain access to some type of mineral he had never heard of before. One of these instances had happened just a year ago, at a halfling settlement only a days travel from Rumadir.

When he brought up his suspicions of these atrocities to the his uncle Yulfren Stoutfist, who worked for the Council of Information, his uncle told him to stop meddling in this business and to keep quiet about it. Malach did not. When he continued to investigate he found himself accused by Urgrim Ironback, a high ranking official of the Council of Information, of leaking dwarven secrets. Somehow, there was very damning physical evidence of this treasonous behavior. Malach was exiled from his community and has been wandering the Hollow for the last 20 or so years doing this and that. At first he sought evidence to try to clear his name, but hasn't been able to access any dwarven information stores. Over the years he entered into a grudging acceptance of his fate as an exiled dwarf.

Malach has a brooding demeanor, with a deep anger that does not easily reach the surface, but once ignited is difficult to quell. He has a very defined sense of right and wrong and little tolerance for what he perceives to be unjust. He does not make friends or form bonds easily, but if he respects someone or does indeed form a bond with them, he will do a great deal for them.

He has a great love for history, particularly natural history and architecture.