Jebbedo Ode'bbej
Alias Grizzled Deathcrafter Species Rock Gnome Gender Male Affiliation Weastern Pirates Occupation Engineer, Shipwright
Jebbedo Ode’bbej, dubbed “Grizzled Deathcrafter” by the Commonwealth of Tormenta Navy, is a male Rock Gnome engineer, shipwright, and pirate — the most senior member of the Weastern Pirates by age, and arguably by accumulated craftsmanship. Hailing originally from the city of Emon on the plane of Tal’Dorei, Jebbedo’s path wound through decades of magical study, a beloved marriage, a constructed son, and eventually a portal in the Dividing Plains that brought him somewhere he had not expected and never quite left.
He served the Weastern Pirates as their chief engineer and shipwright, and was responsible for the creation of more magical items than most craftsmen produce in a lifetime — many of them given away to the crew he came to call family. He is the one who welded Khemmis’s broken horn back together with a golden band. He had a son named Pinoch.
What became of him after the Weastern Pirates’ legend passed into myth is a matter of some historical weight. A venerable gnome by the name of Ode’bbej is credited with the creation and establishment of the city of Astraloftum in Tamasora. Whether those two stories are one story has never been confirmed.
Overview
Aliases: Deathcrafter, Corporal Jon Bon Jovi, Jeb Bush Species: Rock Gnome Gender: Male Height: 2’10” Eye Color: Green Date of Birth: 9th of Capricorn (9th of Horisal, Tal’Dorei calendar) Place of Birth: Emon, Tal’Dorei Marital Status: Married to Amorette Ode’bbej Affiliation: Weastern Pirates, Gilmore’s Glorious Goods (formerly), Honorary Member of the Council of Tal’Dorei (formerly) Occupation: Engineer, Shipwright, Pirate
Background
Early Life
Jebbedo was born in the year 773 P.D. in the city of Emon on the plane of Tal’Dorei, to his halfling mother Anora Bramblehand and gnome father Orryn Ode’bbej. From early childhood he had a talent for memorization and an irresistible compulsion to take things apart and reassemble them — a habit his parents endured with varying degrees of patience.
At nineteen he enrolled at the Alabaster Lyceum in Emon, studying magical items with a specialization in constructs. He graduated at twenty-two and found, as many graduates do, that the city was not in urgent need of what he knew how to do.
796 P.D. — Gilmore’s Glorious Goods
When Jebbedo was twenty-three, his cousin Shaun Geddmore arrived in Tal’Dorei from Marquet and, upon surveying the state of Jebbedo’s room, was immediately struck with an idea. He proposed they open a shop: Jebbedo would make magical items, Shaun would sell them to the adventurers who were always passing through looking for exactly that. When Jebbedo questioned whether adventurers would really show up, Shaun assured him they always would.
Shaun also announced, at some point during this conversation, that his last name was now Gilmore because it sounded more extravagant. Jebbedo did not argue. He also declined to attach his own name to the shop, ceding full naming rights to his cousin. The store was called Gilmore’s Glorious Goods.
809–869 P.D. — Amorette
More than a decade passed without the flow of extraordinary magical items Jebbedo had been promised. At thirty-six, after several arguments about the obsession that had come to define him, Jebbedo gave full ownership of Gilmore’s Glorious Goods to Shaun and set off alone to find the magical artifacts he had always wanted — specifically the Vestiges of Divergence, legendary items forged before the closing of the Divine Gates in Exandria.
He searched for two years. He did not find them. What he found instead was Amorette — a gnome cleric he met while staying at a temple of Sarenrae — and lost himself immediately in her purple eyes. He convinced her to join the search. They traveled together for years, eventually settling in a small village in Issylra when the Vestiges continued to elude them. They tried to have children. They could not carry any to term.
870 P.D. — Gilmore’s Deathbed
Decades later, news reached Jebbedo that Shaun Gilmore was dying. He set aside the quarrels of years past and went to his cousin’s bedside with Amorette. Gilmore greeted him smiling.
In the days that followed, Gilmore told stories of an adventuring party called Vox Machina — a group whose visits had brought him more joy than almost anything else in his life. Some of them came to say goodbye: a half-elf with antlers, a half-elf with a feather in her hair and a bear cub, a very old human man with round glasses, a gnome cleric of Sarenrae who Amorette had apparently heard of, and a man who, to Jebbedo’s bafflement, made repeated reference to a jar of feces.
A week before he died, Gilmore left Jebbedo the shop — so that he might one day meet a group of adventurers who would bring him the same joy that Vox Machina had brought Gilmore. He did, eventually, meet such a group. That is a tale for another day.
870–972 P.D. / 1487 T.N. — Pinoch and the Portal
In the years that followed, Jebbedo built a son.
He named the construct Pinoch, for the child he and Amorette had never been able to have. They did not think of Pinoch as a construct. They thought of him as their son, and raised him accordingly.
As Jebbedo aged he grew restless again — the old hunger for extraordinary items unsatisfied. With Amorette’s blessing and her stewardship of Gilmore’s Glorious Goods, he set off toward a portal that had opened in the Dividing Plains, where rumors spoke of great riches and possibly powerful artifacts.
He stepped through.
He found considerably more than that. Somewhere on the other side of that portal was Aigora, and on Aigora — eventually, inevitably — was the Weastern Pirates.
Notable Items
Current Items
- All-Purpose Tool +1 — Created by Jebbedo
- Bell of Antuve — Given to him by Black Goldmagus
- Hound — A shield bearing the visage of Pinoch
- Long Clan’s Adamantine Dagger — Stolen from Huang Long at Blannishold
- Pinoch’s Embrace — Crafted by Jebbedo from Clink’s armor after Pinoch’s death
- Ring of Swimming — Created by Jebbedo
- Spee’dough — Found in Crondusa’s Lair
Former Items
- Alchemy Jug
- Baal’s Sanctuary — Created by Jebbedo; given to Shrim
- Bag of Holding — Infused by Jebbedo; currently in possession of Cere
- Broom of Flying — Created by Jebbedo; given to Cere
- Cloak of the Manta Ray — Found on a corpse; given to Khemmis
- Critnull Armor — Enchantment transferred to Tohnkh’s armor
- Darkwood Belt — Currently in the Bag of Holding
- Decanter of Endless Water — Created by Jebbedo; given to Neko
- Deck of Dangerous Things — Given by Linton; currently in possession of Cere
- Eyes of the Demon Owl — Created by Jebbedo; given to Savina
- Finger Buddy — Bought from Plazma; currently in the Bag of Holding
- Golem Crystal — Found within the giant Golem beneath the Temple of Asmodeus
- Horn of Silent Alarm — Created by Jebbedo; given to Savina
- Magic Mirror — Found in the Sand Witch’s tower; currently in possession of Cere
- Mist of Eetion — Given by the First Emperor of Sang-Lothor; currently in possession of Cere
- Moon Sickle +1 — Created by Jebbedo; given to Tohnkh
- Quarterstaff of Certain Death — Given to Tohnkh
- Quiver of Ehlonna — Created by Jebbedo; given to Savina
- Rod of the Pactkeeper +1 — Created by Jebbedo; given to Khallis
- Rope of Climbing — Found on the Coin’s Shield; given to Khemmis
- Star — Given by the First Emperor of Sang-Lothor; currently in the Bag of Holding
Relationships
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Amorette Ode’bbej (wife)
- The woman he found when he was looking for something else entirely. She gave him a home and a son and her blessing when he needed to go. Jebbedo has carried her with him ever since, in the shield on his arm and the name on his work.
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Pinoch (construct son, deceased)
- Built because he and Amorette could not have a child any other way. Not a construct — a son. The shield called Hound carries his face. Pinoch’s Embrace, crafted from Clink’s armor after Pinoch’s death, is Jebbedo’s ongoing refusal to let that go.
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- His captain. Jebbedo crafted a Moon Sickle for him and transferred the enchantment of the Critnull Armor to his gear. That the crew’s oldest member served under its youngest captain without apparent friction says something about both of them.
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- Jebbedo welded Khemmis’s broken horn back together with a golden band. Given everything that happened to that horn, it seems as fitting a piece of craftsmanship as any he ever produced.
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- Jebbedo crafted a Rod of the Pactkeeper for Khallis. Whether he understood the full nature of what Khallis was moving toward when he gave it is unclear.
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- Three separate items crafted for her: the Eyes of the Demon Owl, a Horn of Silent Alarm, and a Quiver of Ehlonna. Jebbedo equipped Savina more thoroughly than almost anyone else on the crew.
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- He made her a Decanter of Endless Water. For a Water Genasi crewmate, this reads as both practical and quietly thoughtful.
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Shaun Gilmore (cousin, deceased)
- The man who gave Jebbedo his first real purpose, who died surrounded by the kind of joy Jebbedo was still searching for, and who handed him back the shop on his way out with instructions to find it. Jebbedo eventually did.