Professor Elsin Vey
Gnome • Commoner • Chaotic Good
Age: 83
Gender: Female
Languages: Common, Gnomish, Draconic, Primordial
Occupation: Meteorologist
Location: weather stations • mountain observatories • open-air laboratories
Adventure Hooks: seeks assistance repairing weather instruments • hires escorts to observe a dangerous storm • asks adventurers to retrieve unusual samples after a storm
Appearance.
Elsin is a short, wiry gnome with unruly copper hair, round spectacles, and permanently wind-reddened cheeks. Her layered clothing is covered in pockets containing thermometers, barometers, scraps of parchment, bits of charcoal, and assorted instruments of her own design.
Personality.
Elsin is intensely curious, excitable, and almost incapable of encountering unusual weather without immediately becoming fascinated. She frequently interrupts conversations to point out cloud formations, changes in air pressure, or interesting wind patterns. Her enthusiasm is infectious, though her tendency to explain increasingly complicated meteorological theories to unwilling audiences can become exhausting.
Backstory.
Elsin became fascinated by weather after discovering that the supposedly predictable weather patterns. She spent years traveling between different climates, building increasingly elaborate instruments and recording every observation she could make. Her work has earned her a modest reputation among scholars, although she is far more interested in collecting new data than receiving recognition.
Motivations.
Elsin wants to develop a reliable method of predicting severe weather several days before it arrives without the need for magic. She also dreams of witnessing a truly extraordinary atmospheric phenomenon that no scholar has ever documented.
Flaws.
She has almost no sense of appropriate timing when an interesting phenomenon appears and may abandon a conversation, meal, or important appointment to investigate it. Elsin is also terrible at accepting praise, getting shy and deflecting it as normal or coincidence.
Secrets.
Elsin secretly hates mushrooms and will invent increasingly elaborate excuses to avoid eating them, despite insisting she has an adventurous palate. She is terrible at remembering names and will subtly steer conversations until they mention the names of themselves or their acquaintances again.