Njordir

Njordir is very short, even for a dwarf. He is usually very tidy and unbraids, grooms and re-braids his prized beard as the first thing in the morning. Some dwarfs would say that a dwarf who cares too much for his beard, should not be the ones that protect your back. In Njordir's case this can very well be true. While he would never want anyone that would trust him to get hurt, he is by nature a coward in dire situations.

Adolescence
Njordir was born in the dwarven hold of Zhufbar, a heaven for dwarven engineers and the seat of their guild.

From early on he learned the engineering trade and proved to be quite the prodigy, but as he grew older he grew more curious. By dwarven standards he was careless in his pursuits and experiments, and was stigmatized so.

When he came of age, he left Zhufbar in search of an openminded haven where he could further his research, without old dwarfs holding him back. He found that the emperial city of Nuln was just what he was looking for, and settles down there for a few years (dwarven standards).

Traveling the Empire
While he learned a lot in Nuln, it still wasn't a place he could call home. Everyone was obsessed with furthering their own research and hindering their rivals, there was little place for aiding a dwarf seeking to unravel the secrets of metal and technology, unless there was something to gain from it. In the end he left Nuln to explore the old world and it's wonders.

In his travels he learned that there were fewer wonders to be found in the Empire, and that most of them were already garthered in Nuln, kept safe behind closed doors. There was no way he was going back to Nuln, and absolutely not going back to Zhufbar. Doing that would just mean that he had given up. So he continued his travels and ended up in Marienburg.

Marienburg
Marienburg was an interresting city, with all the ships comming in from sourthern lands like Estalia and Tilea, there were plenty of things to research. Even if most of the research he did was below the inginuety of Nuln and Zhufbar, it was research.

He soon met another dwarf in Marienburg, and she was even a craftsman. Jenna Axeheart was perhaps a bit too stubborn for Njordirs line of work, but that wouldn't hinder a perfectly good partnership. She was a smith and could provide Njordir with metals and all the less fine parts needed in engineering.

Njordir set up a buisness with Jenna and lived in Marienburg for quite some time. In time however it seemed they both started to grow tired of Marienburg, and they would soon get a chance to get out of there.