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Do not mourn me. My purpose has always been to serve a greater whole.
—Lady Elspeth, to T’Kahn as she lay dying
What was the Artificer trying to accomplish in creating the Clockwerk race? The legacy of the Artificer is a complicated one, and his goals, left to interpretation by those who inherited his work, have always been inscrutable.
Such is the case of Lady Elspeth, a half-human, half-Clockwerk android crafted by the Artificer to serve as "the key" to controlling the Enders beneath Irongrey Castle. In his investigations in Mordaine, the Clockwerk scholar T'kahn was drawn to her through mysterious visions, while Rhansmarc the Cruel and his coalition of Dread Lords sought her out in an effort to use her in order to seize control of the Enders for themselves. Elspeth's creation fuses the organic and mechanical, the next step in the Artificer's unknowable plan to evolve created life.
Elspeth, as a person, approaches her role as "the key" with quiet resolve, keenly aware of the limits of her autonomy. She lived in Merovia for many years among the Mora people, as an adopted daughter to a local family, until the memories of her past resurfaced. To know one's purpose, however, is a comfort, and for Elspeth she seeks out the party's aid to prevent that purpose from being perverted by the aims of evil men.
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