Location[]
The Player unknowingly meets Stennar Rock Cutter at the Crash Site, as the only other survivor of the Blimp Crash
Circumstances[]
- Though initially surviving, this person was still dying of his injuries sustained from the crash
- Before he succumbed from his wounds, he informed the player that he escaped from a great evil
- He also stated that said evil was soon coming to Arcanum and the world needed to be warned
- He then gave the player a signate ring and died
- The player deduces the person's identity as a Gnome named Preston Radcliff, based upon a passport found on his body
Quest[]
After being given The Ring, the player is tasked to 'Find the Boy" and to give him said ring, as he would know what to do
True Identity[]
- After the player discovers that "The Boy" is Gilbert Bates, and they Get Information from Gilbert Bates about the ring, they learn that the gnome was actually a Dwarf named Stennar Rock Cutter
- Stennar was a close friend to a young Bates
- He was a member of the Black Mountain Clan Dwarven community
- He introduced Bates to his clan and to its advanced Technology
- Stennar had Bates' signet ring as a gift of friendship
- Stennar and his entire clan went missing about 70 years ago
- Through a conspiracy, he and his clan were banished to The Void to perform forced labor
Subsequent Events[]
- Stennar managed to finally escape his imprisonment via the Ring of Brodgar
- He went to the nearby town of Roseborough, and then on to Caladon
- In Caladon he obtained a fake passport from the Black Market identifying him as a Gnome named Preston Radcliff
- With this passport he obtained passage onboard the IFS Zephyr
- This leads to the beginning of the game and the player's ill-fated meeting with "Radcliff"