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Jiggs, the Artificer of the Hollow.

A master of invention, Jiggs was born to a blacksmith and his wife in a sleepy woodland village known as the Hollow. Surrounded by tall pines on all sides, the villagers of the Hollow lived a simple, peaceful life in their small wooden cottages, and were known for their humorously elongated noses.

Growing up, Jiggs showed a great interest in the tools in his father's shop, and would amaze the Hollow villagers with his improvements and innovations on everyday things.

From a simple set of calipers and tongs to a working clockwork music box, Jiggs' boy genius knew no bounds, and he took great joy in making his fellow citizens lives a little bit easier and happier.

But this all changed with the arrival of the terrible and evil beast known as the Sasquatch.

Towering above a normal man, covered in thick dark fur and imbued with mighty strength, the Sasquatch was feared as a mythical creature of legend known only to the people of the Hollow as a monster from children's bedtime stories.

As the villagers were about to discover, this beast was all too real.

One fateful day, when Jiggs was out in the woods working on a new type of handsaw, the fel creature emerged from the woods surrounding the Hollow.

Slaying the townsfolk one by one, the Sasquatch at last came to Jiggs' family shop. Helpless against the foul beast, Jiggs' father was torn limb from limb, his wife murdered, and his shop raised to the ground.

Upon Jiggs' return, he found his home in ruins and his family and friends dead. The only indication of what had transpired were the unmistakeable footprints of the evil Sasquatch leading back into the dark forest.

That dark day, Jiggs' swore vengeance against the beast. He would do whatever it took to avenge the murder of his family, and would chase it to the ends of the Urth.

It was at this moment that a traveling magi of the Artificer's Guild, having heard the cries and sounds of violence rising above the woodlands around the Hollow, a place he had often visited in the past, deviated from his course to arrive at what remained of the small village.

There he found the young Jiggs, his face a contortion of rage and grief. Before he could ask the boy what had happened, the Artificer noticed the footprints of the Sasquatch, and dripped his head in shame. For it was he who had created the terrible beast - an alchemical monstrosity spawned from an experiment gone wrong one year prior.

The beast had once been Yolgnu, his faithful attendant. The magi had been attempting to create an elixir of strength, and had put one too many drops of wyrmsblood into it. When Yolgnu had imbibed the potion, it had transformed him into the horrible creature, and he had escaped from the Guild, never to be heard from again until today.

The magi knew what he had to do. Consoling the boy, he took him with him to the Artificer's Guild. It would be here that the boy would learn the arts of Magic, and become his new assistant. Together, they would hunt down the beast, and avenge the fate of Jiggs' parents.

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