> [!Tip] Profile > ![[Tresca.jpg]] > **Tresca Teesbeak** > --- > **Species:** Rock Gnome > **Role:** Artificer > **Affiliation:** Independent (formerly Drummond Independents) ## Profile Tresca Teesbeak is a gnome artificer who specializes in working with planar metals, particularly Fernia-infused orichalcum. She served as the lead artificer at Drummond Independents in Ashblack, the Cogs, until the party extracted the forge's Fernia planar focus — killing the forge permanently. Small even for a gnome, Tresca dresses in a buttoned blouse layered under a heavy artificer's tool belt that looks like it weighs more than she does. She carries a **snow globe** — an arcane focus she whispers words of power to, producing a localized shower of ice that shields her from forge heat. She is constantly scribbling notes in a tiny leather-bound book. ## Reputation Tresca is known in the Cogs as a genuinely skilled artificer who chose to work at an independent forge rather than crawl to House Cannith. She sided with [[Stoke]] and the warforged during the labor strike at Drummond's, refusing to work until the workers' demands were addressed. She commands quiet respect from the warforged crews who recognize competence and loyalty over station. ## Relationship to the Party Tresca is [[Lhara]]'s old friend, though the relationship carries some wariness — she's uncertain about what Lhara's guild work has become. She helped the party extract the Burning Idol from the Drummond forge, knowing it would destroy the foundry and the livelihoods of the warforged she'd just stood beside during the strike. She holds no ill will toward the party for the forge's death. She's pragmatic enough to understand the extraction was necessary and that someone would have come for it eventually. But the weight of what it cost isn't lost on her. ## Known Traits - Practical and direct — doesn't waste words - Slightly cranky, especially under pressure - Loyal to people, not institutions - Genuinely skilled with planar metals and manifest zone work - Protective of her notes and her process %% ## DM Only - Tresca is [[Cheeto]]'s primary connection to the arcane blaster quest — she can forge the weapon's frame/housing using Fernia-infused orichalcum, but the weapon requires additional planar components from future adventures - She is the smith [[Flamewind]] referenced: "There is a smith in the Fernia manifest zone beneath this city who works with planar metals" - She indicated she'll relocate to Tradefair district in the Bazaar after the forge's death — "ask for the gnome with the snow globe" %%