Quietly observant Gravgaic Quartzmane (LG male dwarf healer) is barely into his 40th year but has seen and experienced more than most Donguni. Gravgaic struggles to integrate his foreign knowledge of medical science with his traditional upbringing; he hails from the Quartzmanes, a clan of healer-priests famed during the Geb-Nex wars for their Torag-granted restorative skills. The Quartzmanes’ glory has faded today, as their healing prayers are stymied by the Sky Citadel’s magic-dead environs. Gravgaic, wishing to rehabilitate his clan’s honor, answered High King Arunak’s call for healers to study non-magical healing arts from Kassi Aziril (NG female human alchemist; Legends 70) in distant Rahadoum.
Despite royal scholarships, few wished to visit atheist Rahadoum, notorious for its militant godlessness. Gravgaic is the only Donguni student thus far who accepted, persevered, and graduated from these studies. Taking his university fellows’ disdain of his religious background in stride, he learned what he could from the Mother of Medicine’s revolutionary methods of vaccine production, polytrauma mitigation, and medical research. The pious Gravgaic has recently returned to Dongun Hold, faith tempered from this pilgrimage, and seeks to teach what he knows. Aware of life’s cruel ironies, patient Gravgaic steels himself for his society’s accusations of heresy while he struggles to serve his nation with every ounce of his being.
