Marta Stonechisel - Sculptor of the Artisans' Ward
Meet Marta Stonechisel, the dwarf sculptor whose plaza statues and bronze commissions shape the Artisans' Ward's public face -- a patient, stubborn NPC for patronage, civic intrigue, and a secret project of her own.
"Stone doesn't lie. It just takes its time telling the truth — same as I do, if you'll let me finish before you start asking when it'll be done."
Somewhere in the Artisans' Ward, on any given week, a plaza wakes up to find something new standing in it — a hero recast in bronze, a founder's likeness in marble, a shape nobody commissioned but everyone stops to look at anyway. More often than the Ward likes to admit, the hands behind it belong to one very particular, very unhurried dwarf.
Profile
- Name: Marta Stonechisel
- Race: Dwarf (Mountain Dwarf)
- Gender: Female
- Alignment: Lawful Neutral
- Role/Class: Sculptor of the Artisans' Ward
- CR: 1
Appearance: Marta is broad and solidly built even by dwarven standards, with forearms roped from decades of hauling and shaping raw stone. Her dark hair is cropped short and practical, dusted permanently white with marble powder no matter how often she washes it out. She wears a heavy leather work apron scarred with chisel-nicks over simple, sturdy clothes, and her hands — thick-knuckled, precise, never quite clean — rarely stop moving even when she's not working, tracing shapes in the air as she talks. A battered set of calipers hangs from her belt alongside a small hammer she's owned since her apprenticeship.
