Gradak Spiritforged, Alchemist Forged in Fire.

[Dredi]

Unfortunately, Gradak died today trying to do the first scripted quest for over a week after being instapopped by a bugged alchemy fail.

Gradak was my run at an alchemist, one I nearly gave up on at many points. He was horrifically unlucky on multiple occasions and had more deaths to single bugged Alchemy fail than anything else in the game but he was also staunchly stubborn and determined.

From his character notes, some insight:

Character
Gradak is fair and honourable without being zealous or overbearing. He is willing to make both changes and friends on all sides where it suits him and is typically willing to give someone a chance before cutting them off.

Gradak is willing (And has, on multiple occasions) to conjure demons, devils and other evil creatures where it is required and especially when his back is pushed up to the wall or he feels he has something to proove.

Gradak places alot of value in his word and happily repays the aid of those who would help him in kind, if in slightly different ways.

Gradak is notoriously clumsy, a quality magnified many times by his heavy investment of time and resources into alchemy and a quality also seeming to attract more than his due attention when out and about having lead very closely to his death on many occasions.



Pursuits and Long Term Goals
Gradak as a character was produced to study and test out the alchemy system in more depth and really have some fun with it and is very heavily devoted to this often trying to find a solution to any given situation with his alchemical prowess.

Gradak is currently aiding Calab and Rago with the investigation and, hopefully freedom of Castle Avgardii. He was quick to offer Caleb his oath to complete the task - an oath he now regrets having seen the hell portal and what lies ahead, but one he intends to keep none the less.

Should he be successful in doing so and live to tell the tale, Gradak will attempt to run for Prefect of the House of Knowledge with Miriam's recent removal from office in an effort to pursue the rather far-fetched agenda of reversing the 7 steps.

Finally, Gradak would like to be attributed to atleast one major scholarly, alchemical or magical discovery, while the Castle Avgardii would most certainly come close, he is unlikly to be satisfied unless it is something he himself has pursued from the off-set.



Breif history
Gradak originates from a Dwarfhold deep beneath the earth and hidden away among the dragonspine mountains. Closed to outsiders and home of a reclusive cadre of dwarven sorcerors - the "Spiritforged" clan. It is here that Gradak was born, here that he was raised and taught, here that the hold remains even to this day among the hills.

It would be an enviable life for most, to live in a functioning dwartfhold after the darkening while remaining cloistered away from the end of the world but as time went on and things became more and more desperate it was clear to some in the clan that they could not remain cut off forever unless they were to resort to the darker arts.

It is as well known fact between scholars, alchemists and Mages alike that great power is available in the darkness , in the shadows - and fundamentally - in evil and that it is much more easily accessed than those of more goodly stints and so this was the path chosen by the elders of the clan, quietly at first but when the corruption begin to spread it became obvious, acceptable.

Eventually disagreements, infighting and other fel results of the corruption would begin to become apparent and this would cause Gradak to leave for good before finding his way to sanctuary.

Gradak's story is fundamentally one of a person who wants to do the right thing, but that was willing to use - or was constantly tempted by - the forces of evil in order to acheive this.



Gradak never got any loot and I am as a player pretty damn awful at taking screenshots but if anyone has anything of him, please free to post them up.

[Golgo13]

.... damn it!

Your teachings of alchemy will live on in my elf. And perhaps even die the same way as you have..

[I love cats]

I greatly enjoyed the interactions I had with Gradak on Sperling. Especially given that it was a sort of master/apprentince one.

[Random_White_Guy]

[zDark Shadowz]

You will be missed, it was good to see someone else publicly take on the mantle of Sanctuary's finest Alchemist after Shard went down.

[Skovox Blitzer]

Good times with Brjax and the ever-changing crew.  I think you'd be happy to know that yer alchemy helped me on a few occasions.  Hope to see a new char soon.

[The Old Hack]

Gradak was a great character and Dracca will miss him. Her oldest surviving friend.