Joggor

Overview
Joggor "Juicy" Dimforge (c. 1108 - ) was a dwarf paladin/cleric who was a member of the Chaos Legion between 1393 and 1394, sworn to Amagi. Initially, he joined the Chaos Legion solely to take revenge on Muulthiim for the destruction of the dwarven race in the late 10th century. By the time Muulthiim had been defeated, however, Joggor remained with the party, largely because of Amagi's presence inside a magical lute owned by Anca Bree, another member of the Chaos Legion. Although he was petrified and destroyed by Zarthilx in 1394, he was resurrected by Amagi following that deity's restoration to power and made Joggor, the God of Stories. Although popularly known in Aduna as a god, Joggor is actually a demigod, subservient to Amagi.

Early Life
Joggor's great-grandfather was Ragngeir Dimforge, a dwarven noble and diplomat partially responsible for the Grozav-Fainarr treaty of 986. Although the treaty was eventually broken, in the short term it prevented a war between the two most powerful nations in Aduna. None of his other ancestors are known, although Ragngeir's Tale implied that he may have inherited his carefree nature from his father, as his older ancestors displayed little of his character drunkenness and general licentiousness.

Nothing is known about Joggor's life before he met Valadreth Rotweaver in approximately 1250, except for a handful of stories from Joggor himself and the fact that he grew up in the Underdark. As he is well known for his exaggerated tales, these stories may not be reliable. Supposedly the nickname "Juicy" came from the sweet taste of the sweat on his neck, which was said to taste like strawberries. Around this time, Joggor claims to have gotten into a barfight with a white dragonborn, forming the basis of his entirely fictional story of the White Cracker.

First Encounter with Valadreth
Circa 1240 Joggor was having a meal at the Iridescent Barrel in Grotmoria when a young Valadreth casually mentioned wanting a guide to the surface. Joggor offered his services, protecting Valadreth from a handful of Cloakers during the weeks-long trek to the surface of Aduna. Following their arrival, Joggor robbed Valadreth of his remaining funds and went south to Caldtown, where he spent all of the funds in a single night of partying. This may have contributed to Valadreth's later troubles with the Depasi family and others.

As a Member of the Chaos Legion
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Joggor first encountered the rest of the Chaos Legion in 1393 after their encounter with what was called the Bee City, fighting with them against some werewolves who had snuck up against them. Valadreth, recognizing Joggor as the man who had betrayed him over a century prior, and immediately robbing Joggor of the money Joggor was carrying with him at the time. Valadreth demanded more, but as Joggor managed to convince the rest of the party (all significantly younger than both he and Valadreth) that economic conditions had changed the value of the stolen goods over time, no further money was ever repaid. Following his greedy nature, Joggor even attempted to get the initial gold back from Triq Fenwyn following Valadreth's death after the battle with Muulthim, although this was never successful.

Joggor inadvertently acquired Valadreth's brain worm, which showed him fragments of Valadreth's memories and gave him the ability to speak and comprehend Deep Speech. This worm was eventually extracted and destroyed by Muunc, who accused Joggor of being a spy for the Simic Combine.

Following this, Joggor joined the group in their visit to the castle owned by Frederick Catia in which Bhelderak and Raemick became Dragonborn, helping to defend the castle from the attacks of Filch and others. He returned with the rest of the group to Pariah, where he acquired a flying broom and a magical "Butcher's Bib," relics he retained until his final battle with Zarthilx. Following Triq's insanity caused by the revelation that Anca had murdered her parents, Joggor joined the crowd in calling to execute Anca, believing that only with her death would he be able to be bound to Amagi's lute as she was. Some have interpreted this as foreshadowing the events of 1395 and the death of Selune.

While in Pariah, Joggor and Adaelius entered the mansion of the town's mayor, and Joggor stole a particularly intricate clock. This he later sold to the trader V'raj, claiming that it had been a gift from the King of Fainarr himself. Upon discovering Joggor's treachery, V'raj refused to buy anything from Joggor ever again.

Once the Legion was reunited after the disaster in Pariah, Joggor went with them to Masca, where he commissioned his signature firearm, the Dimforger. Also in Masca, Adaelius purchased the Depasi Estate, and tricked Joggor into an exploitative contract. He nearly died attempting to enter the building once it had been purchased by Adaelius, and rescued Triq after she became trapped in a cursed mirror.

Following the extermination of the ghosts in the Depasi mansion, Joggor and Anca conspired to steal the contract from Adaelius and destroy it, making the contract unenforceable. At Anca's suggestion, she served Adaelius a love potion, allowing her to seduce him and Joggor to steal the contract while Adaelius was otherwise occupied. This tryst unintentionally began the relationship between Adaelius and Anca that would culminate with their marriage in 1395.

Joggor remained with his comrades when they attempted to take the Divine Spark of Madam Letrie, and was cast into the Far Realm with the rest of the Chaos Legion. He was absent during the Legion's trek through initial "layer" of the Far Realm, reappearing once the others reached the "gore layer". As the disturbed nature of the Far Realm began to erode Joggor's sanity, he began to believe that Adaelius was his biological son, despite the noble's complete lack of non-human features. He also began to use the word brekekka, which he claimed was derived from Deep Speech. Upon the Chaos Legion's arrival at the end of the "water layer," the aboleth Morda tempted Joggor into his pool, showing him mirages of the "wife" and "children" that Joggor had claimed to have once had in different versions of the story of the White Cracker. Morda eventually agreed to let the party through to the next layer of the Far Realm once Joggor and Anca had agreed to tell a particularly exaggerated story of Morda's demise.

Upon their return from the Far Realm, Joggor and the others encountered a devastated Masca, where Joggor helped to defeat both Rayfield Schmidt and Sullivan. Following the defeat of Rayfield, Joggor elected to depart from the Chaos Legion with Bolkos and Yeslee, who had come to take revenge on Rayfield, and was given the tattoo of the Legion to thank for his service to them. This was supposedly to find any of the innumerable bastards that Joggor had fathered over the years, and perhaps make up for lost time. Joggor, however, returned to the Legion a few days later, realizing that at his age, the Legion was likely the closest thing to family he would ever get.

At Castle von Inalt, Joggor, as a paladin, was particularly helpful in battle against the numerous undead hordes. Marius, on the night he dined with Chaos Legion, took a special interest in Joggor as one of the last living dwarves. He opposed Adaelius' vampiric transformation, and would have cast Remove Curse on Adaelius himself had he known that would cure his vampirism. He was nearly killed by Pasaji, the undead dragon guardian of Marius von Inalt's spark, but managed to kill her only a few seconds before her necrotic breath would have turned his body to ash. At Amagi's encouragement, Joggor attempted to take Marius' divine spark, but was stopped by Adaelius. Later, it was revealed that this would have killed Joggor and destroyed the divine spark, as he was too weak to take them at the time.

Although he did not intend to wield a sword and spear he had taken from the suits of armor known as Gotz and Tannheuser, the sword was cursed, and as a result Joggor was compelled to wield one in each hand until Triq broke each of the curse of the spear. As a result, he fought and killed (not permanently, that was left to Damaris) Marius' beastly form with the sword of one of Marius' most trusted lieutenants. Later, the sword's curse was broken by Bhelderak and Joggor returned to his trademark battleaxe.

In the trek between Castle von Inalt and Zarthilx's temple, Joggor, along with Bhelderak and Adaelius, used Muunc's flying bicycle invention to significantly reduce the travel time between Masca and the opening of the Underdark. In Niigata, the same town where he had begun his adventuring career over a century and a half prior, Joggor engaged in drunken sex with an intoxicated Goliath woman, Onerra Thunderstep, who became pregnant with the final bastard Joggor sired before his ascension, Medrekk Thunderstep.

Upon arriving in Grotmoria, Joggor and the rest of the Chaos Legion managed to get to the Temple of Zarthilx without obstruction thanks to the sacrifice of the ship and crew on which they had arrived. After fighting their way through the "army" in front of the temple itself, they entered the Temple only to find Anca's parents restrained. Zarthilx offered the release of Anca's parents in exchange for Triq's divine sparks. Adaelius, however, attempted to rescue his fiancée's parents, managing to kill both guards restraining them. Zarthilx, however, vaporized Anca's father, at which point the rest of the Chaos Legion rushed forward to attack. Joggor used Dimension Door to get close to Zarthilx as quickly as possible, which allowed to attack much earlier, but also left him far away from the rest of the party. As a result, Zarthilx eventually singled him out, using his eye beam to turn Joggor into a stone statue. As Triq rushed towards him to reverse the curse, Zarthilx summoned a mystical hand to topple the unbalanced statue of Joggor, turning him into rubble.

Following his death, Joggor awoke to find himself in the realm of Amagi, full of sensual pleasures and delightful food. He also found himself in a much younger and fitter body. While the rest of the battle raged on the Material Plane, it seemed to Joggor's spirit that centuries had passed blissfully in the company of nearly anyone he could imagine to please him, as well as other spirits of those devoted to the worship of Amagi. Once Gibbler killed Zarthilx using the broom retrieved from Joggor's body, the Chaos Legion, along with Anca's mother and the members of Capat de Ochi who had joined them, teleported away from the collapsing temple, leaving behind Charlie, as well as the bodies of Joggor and Adaelius, who had been killed for the fourth time during the battle.

Once the Legion had returned to Masca using Triq's teleportation device, Triq agreed to free Amagi from his lute prison using the divine sparks she had taken from Zarthilx, under the impression that he would return the favor by helping to resurrect the deceased members of the party. Amagi made good on his promise, immediately retrieving Joggor from his realm and granting him a powerful divine spark of his own, officially making him Joggor, the God of Stories.

As Joggor, God of Stories
Following his ascension, Joggor gained the mastery of several other spells he was unable to learn as a simple paladin or cleric, and became incredibly famous following frequent appearances at taverns, telling the stories for which he was known. He once again looted the vault of Castle von Inalt for funds, as his original bounty had been destroyed with his body in Grotmoria. He eventually returned to Grotmoria to retrieve the magic items he had lost in death. He also uncovered a piece of his head, his likeness perfectly frozen in stone. He also once again visited the tavern in Niigata where he had met Onerra, seeing her realizing she was pregnant, yet refusing to do anything for her, although they did again engage in drunken sex.

Between Amagi's return to godhood and Adaelius and Anca's wedding, Amagi enlisted Joggor, his most loyal lieutenant, on a campaign to undermine the power of Judecata, the chief rival and sister of Amagi's lover Erindre, the Goddess of Death. This primarily involved assassinating Judecata's priestesses, the death of whom caused stars to go dark in the sky. By the time of Adaelius and Anca's wedding, all of the priestesses of Judecata had been killed, and Judecata was at the weakest she had ever been.

Joggor was originally intended to officiate the wedding ceremony of Adaelius and Anca in 1395, however, this was scrapped at the last minute due to Joggor's bizarre "bachelor party" that involved casting Weird on all of the guests. Despite this, he remained one of Adaelius' groomsmen and a major part of the wedding party. Following the wedding, however, Amagi, who remained friends with Anca and was in attendance, beckoned Joggor to go with Erindre and finally kill Judecata. Anca, upon hearing this, implored Joggor to remain, but her pleas fell on deaf ears. When Joggor left with Erindre, Anca argued vehemently with Amagi, comparing him to Judecata. Enraged, Amagi summoned a lute and imprisoned Anca within it, just as he had been imprisoned by Judecata centuries prior.

Joggor killed Judecata in her domain, but allowed Erindre to collect Judecata's divine spark, as he had agreed with Amagi. Erindre, however, betrayed Amagi, revealing upon their return to the Material Plane that she had never loved Amagi, and was merely using him as a tool to undermine her sister. Erindre appeared as a giant before the remaining wedding guests, compelling them to kneel, as the remaining members of the Chaos Legion (except Joggor) were whisked away to the castle of Frederick Catia. Erindre then began the Age of the Withering, plunging Aduna into perpetual darkness and winter for at least the next nineteen years.

Joggor's last personal canon appearance was standing in the castle battlements above the wedding scene, dismayed at Erindre's betrayal of his lord Amagi.

The White Cracker
Main Article: The White Cracker

At some point during his stay in Masca, Joggor had a particularly vivid dream in which he was acting out the fictional story of the White Cracker. It began with "Valadreth", who had been dead for months by this time, asking Joggor to retell the story of the White Cracker, following which the various elements of the story occurred within the world of the dream itself, including elements that had not been present in early versions of the story, such as Joggor having only one eye or the presence of hundreds of white-robed cultists surrounding the White Cracker. In this he was aided by "Adaelius", "Triq", "Bolkos", "Yeslee", and "Bhelderak," none of whom were actually present, although, like most dreams, Joggor did not know what was surrounding him was imaginary. Eventually Joggor defeated the White Cracker, a disgusting white dragon, in exactly the same way he had described in the story, after which the voice of the White Cracker implored him to take care when telling this story, and implied that it was gaining in power due to the popularity of Joggor's tale. Upon waking, Joggor dismissed the event as a nightmare until he stepped on a painting of his "family" that had appeared in the dream.

From this point onward loud noises and a terrible smell would appear whenever Joggor or anyone else mentioned the name of the White Cracker, with the effects getting worse the more the name was invoked. As a result, Joggor quit telling the story and attempted to keep others from talking about it.

While Joggor was staying in the Rothouse prior to his departure for Castle von Inalt, he had a similar, though much shorter dream in which the White Cracker was nearly killing him. Joggor asked what the dragon wanted from him, and V'raj, who was also at the Rothouse, appeared in the dream, demanding that Joggor swear to tell no more lies when selling items. Terrified and with little choice, Joggor acquiesced, his vow being shown to every other member of the Chaos Legion in their dreams as well. Upon waking the next day, V'raj revealed that the entire dream as well as the various effects at the name of the White Cracker were his doing, to get revenge on Joggor for selling him the stolen clock. Although Joggor was furious at this, he understood V'raj was incredibly powerful, and has not broken the vow he made since.