Shmelo

Knowledge of how exactly the Magic City was built is a heavily guarded secret, kept encrypted in the Ancient Nimean by the Guilds of the Great Builder. The lore says that Muraius was built with a "single word," but often the scriptural pronouncements of the High People are to be questions for their exaggerations and hyperbole...

from Histories of the Antediluvan Period, by Fiona of Abernathy, First Scribe to the Library of Ambion

Shmelo is a hearty Nim engineer whose storied history goes all the way back to the Magic City: his forefathers were part of the ancient Guild of Builders who are set to have built the Bridge of Teyat and countless edifices in the land of the High People.

After the Fall, he got involved with the Returners, offering his expertise for clockwerk technology to a generation of human rebels who seek to overthrow the Emperor in Arcadia.

Adventure Hook

Shmelo is gruff, no-nonsense, and gregarious. He can be found in the Returners' headquarters, wherever it may be, building clockwerk weapons of war for the rebellion.