Ick

Ick is a unique Kobold who died at the ripe old age of 132 after knowing the Twilight Rose for a day.

Appearance
He's a 2'0 little kobold with scales the colour of an orange highlighter and wide expressive yellow eyes. He generally has big wide happy eyes of wonder. That puppy expression where everything is great and they're just happy to be included.

Equipment and Clothing
Like most bards, he has a selection of apparel to meet different needs.

While he is most comfortable wearing nothing, when out in public he is usually wearing a little tan loincloth that extends to about halfway down his legs. His loincloth is nicely made.

But the generally minimal clothing (or lack thereof) makes his braces of armour and gauntlet of ogre strength look bulkier than they might on other adventurers who might be wearing simple leather armour.

He has two swords at his side - one is Tim's sword of wounding, and the other is just a nice small shortsword. He has a small dart-pouch, and wears three bags of holding as a belt. On his wrists, he has little brass castanets that snap-closed together so they don't jangle when he walks, but are his primary go-to instrument when he wants to augment his voice.

He wears little sunglasses outside in the daytime.

Personality
He looks to others quite regularly, trying to figure out his role at any given time. A mark from his kobold nature, and a sign of healthy and involved parenting of him - he's made for a pack. He spends lots of time watching Twilight Rose and Octus with wide-eyed interest.

"It's no secret that gnomes don't lay eggs. And even if they did, they would certainly not lay eggs with kobolds inside."
Ick's near-to-hatching egg was found in a demolished kobold camp. The egg was removed not because the adventurers wanted a kobold, but because there were no kobolds left alive in the camp to care for the egg when it hatched.

A Good gnome delving couple (a forest gnome named "Sandy" and a rock gnome named "Gourd") had just wiped the camp as part of a contract to clear out an attacking kobold problem. But they could not in fine conscience leave an innocent baby creature to be born into abandonment and die in suffering.

So the couple decided to bring the egg home. They would do what they could to raise the kobold in a better environment than a burrow. If the hatchling turned out to be too vicious and murdery, they would put it down.

'Sandy and Gourd were expecting to be adopting a wild naturally-vicious wolf-dog they at best-hoped to make feral. They ended up getting a son.'

The Prophecy

Time alongside the Twilight Rose
'Flashbulb Memories'