People: Jamison Blackberry

"Memory is a powerful thing... but the past can sometimes overwhelm."

Jamison Blackberry (RIY 108 Nov 12 – ... / CR -5 Var 17 – 412 Kot 2) was a gnome artificer, who - along with the Crew of the Phoenix - helped defeat Kotrit Wayveri in CR 398. A renowned craftsman, Jamison crafted many relics in his time, and it is said that he was even capable of making magitech, items of incredibly dangerous power that combined Magic and Technology into a not-quite-seamless whole.

History

Born only a few days before the beginning of the end of the Ronkan Empire in Arcadia Magic City, the world Jamison came into was full of chaos and confusion and no small amount of danger. The energies he was subjected to from the destruction of Arcadia left him attuned to the Forces of Magic and Technology in unusual ways, and he would later make use of that to construct items of immense and strange power that are difficult, if not impossible, to replicate.

The Iron Twilight

Jamison Blackberry was born two days before the unveiling of the Thalassian in Arcadia, an event during which the magitech 'walker exploded disastrously, killing the then Emperor as well as many nobles, and would lead directly to the Wayveri family attempting a coup as the Empire fell to shambles, with many of its occupants fleeing the destruction wrought by the events in Arcadia, anarchy as the government failed to sensibly respond, and civil war as the Wayveri marched their armies across the continent, using unearthed Arkeyan shield stones to maintain their holdings.

Jamison's family fled Arcadia and returned to the Blue Hills, where they joined many of their gnome brethren in constructing the flying city of Urilaulri to escape the chaos of the fall of the Ronkan Empire and the encroaching Wayveri army. Far too young to take part, Jamison was tended to by his mother, who noted that the infant would sometimes spark red and silver when near technological gadgets, a phenomenon that was noted by his father during construction of the Thalassian. Not being aware of what it meant at the time, she simply made note of it as a research topic for later - for the time being, work on Urilaulri was vastly more important.

By RIY 213, the Ronkan Empire was in complete disarray, but the city of Urilaulri was fortunately finished by winter of that year. Boarding their people onto the vessel - along with a number of dwarves, halflings, moogles, clavats, gremlins, and even a few orcs - the city lifted itself out of the Blue Hills and into history, heading initially towards Goug Machine City to lend what aid they could before abandoning the continent to the Wayveri family, heading for Chaliraz but with the intention of letting the city drift on the winds where it would. High in the clouds, most expected that they would be effectively untouchable...

The Draconic Armageddon

...and they were, for the most part, until CR 17, when the dragons of the world burst forth from their lairs to do battle with one another in the skies of Adnez.