Dhunli Kar'lagem - Character App

Nickname(s)/Alias(es): The Golemancer
Race: Dwarf
Gender: Male
Age: 87
Height: 111
Weight: 58kg
Hometown: Chūō-ku
Occupation: Master Tinkerer and Automatician
Organization: Previous OTA work, currently independent, but close mutually beneficial relationship to the Konbeami’s




Dhunli has a shorter, steadily graying brown beard.  His eyes are wide and narrow, which might look menacing if not for his classic dwarven smile.  He is kept athletic enough to be a highly active tinkerer but plump enough to be a full-time tinkerer.  The skin of his face and arms have hints of decay from stray sparks of heat from his projects.

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Personality: Dhunli is a dreamer.  Like many of this sort, he can be stubborn and tunnel-visioned.  Also of this sort, he can be immensely helpful and driven.  Dhunli has built-in dwarven curiosity about most things, particularly the concept of “intelligence.”  While his projects typically keep him isolated from others, he is an active listener in social situations, although much of his personality is overshadowed by the obsession with the subject at hand.

Features & Quirks: Dhunli can often be found talking himself through problems.  He is extremely fond of pets, completely oblivious to order or organization (his shop is a mess), and his favorite food is a nice kabab: messy enough to be delicious without getting your working-hands dirty.  

Theme Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvDvawzJ3s8





Dunli Kar’lagem was still but young when many of the controversial events of recent history occurred, but certainly grew up in their aftermath.  For better or worse, the Kar’lagem troop kept mostly to themselves, only associating with others by trade.  Their trade, tinkering, invention, and tinkering those in turn, became impossible to keep isolated as future slowly became present.  Dunli considers himself fortunate for his inherited interest in his family’s work and the almost purely symbiotic relationships it resulted in.  If someone needed their skills and knowledge, regardless of their origins, they were likely to play nice.  It became naturally to return the gesture.

When it became time for solo pursuits, Dunli first joined OTA.  His interest and expertise in cybernetic technology grew there, though his unease with such a large and morally ambiguous organization eventually waned on him.  A cornerstone project’s successful completion facilitated an amicable departure from OTA.  Dunli turned his attention to his more specific interests: a mesh of cybernetics, artificial intelligence, and constructs.  With some savings and a well-earned reputation, The Automaton Emporium was founded: a modest yet impossibly stocked tech-shop focusing on machines made for various purposes.

The Konbeami's have discovered Dunli’s talent for creating purpose-fulfilling machinations and seem to quite admire that they are manufactured with personality and intelligence in mind.  Dunli fulfills regular contracts for them, which serves to fund his passion projects: small companion droids with advanced, believable AI.