Rumfish.net:Featured article/June 2007

Rommal Strithen

... Deep within the bowels Mt. Aluminum, dozens of gnomes were altered on a genetic level. ... Upon leaving Mt. Aluminum and its magic suppression field, these gnomes, dubbed whisper gnomes due to their somewhat reclusive nature, found they had the direction of their gnomish talents shifting from tinkering to stealth. ...

... Rommal went through his assignment like a golem, completing it with efficiency and without mercy. Rommal thought previously that he’d functioned on such a level, but never like this. The looming prospect of losing his soul in his work again frightened him. It frightened him enough that he took an indefinite leave of absence from the church of Barognis. ...

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