Rise of Maltraxis · Active · Returned to Sunspire
If the mechanism resists explanation, shoot the mechanism.
The person behind the legend
Hamdik is a dwarf cleric, gunsmith, and weapons-builder with a fondness for black powder and sweets. He is hard of hearing, harder to socialize, and happiest when dismantling a pistol into enough pieces to alarm everyone sharing the room.
Signature methods
Magic & stranger talents
What people remember
Heroism, poor judgment, private grief, public embarrassment—usually in combinations nobody planned.
Spilled gunpowder across the Kingsguard quarters while servicing his pistols.
Was carried through the Gauntlet by Fly, spun like an unbalanced barrel, and vomited on Pillar Four.
Built tunnels and commanded artillery during the fall of Eastmarch.
Was polymorphed into a giraffe, shit on the royal quarters, transformed back, and slipped in it while Svetlana watched.
From the road
Reconstructed from the surviving campaign record—not verbatim transcripts, but faithful to the person revealed at the table.
Pillar Four“Flying is unnatural. Spinning while flying is worse. We will speak no further of the pillar.”
Engineering“Every mechanism has a weak point. Occasionally the weak point is the part struck by the bullet.”
Lucien’s donation“It was not a donation. Then he shared the tobacco. The ethical question became less urgent.”
People in their orbit
Friendly rival in ranged contests; Alaryn later cleaned the pillar incident with magic.
Hamdik openly criticized Lucien’s manipulation of a merchant, then accepted the shared goods when the exchange softened.
Maintained with greater tenderness than most social relationships.
Where the record stands
Alive in Sunspire. Officially a conquering Kingsguard engineer; unofficially the reason the royal quarters may now have a giraffe contingency plan.
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