Moonbeam the Swarmkeeper was a Water Genasi Ranger with a passion for gold. His mother was very superstitious, from a long line of fortune tellers, and believed Moonbeam would one day create something that would outlast the elements themselves. His father’s ancestors had made a moisture-pact with Psilofyr, Lord of the Myconids, which presented itself as an aura of protective fungus around all of their descendents. It was particularly strong with Moonbeam, solidifying his mother’s beliefs.
Moonbeam ventured out into the planes with his parent’s blessings and had great success as an adventurer. After wandering the realms long enough, exploring dungeons & battling dragons, the water Genasi had accumulated a hoard large enough to impress a young genie.
Moonbeam decided to get an education at a forest university run by Mark of Making Gnomes. Finding great kinship amongst these Gnomes, Moonbeam studied many topics for many years and learned much about simic science, druidic rituals, forbidden artificer schematics, and more, deepening his Genasi connection with nature and the element of life.
After the Gnomes has bled his fortune dry, he ventured to a nearby city to sell his new invention: the warforage wilderness companion, a magical construct able to forage & harvest ingredients and synthesize them into all manner of meals and alchemical concoctions useful for the everyday adventurer. Moonbeam was able to sell an heirloom necklace his mother had given him for good luck for far more than he thought it was worth, investing the platinum coins into his new business venture.
Once he had a storefront, Moonbeam used his innate genie magic & his gnew gnomish gnowledge, instilling part of his magic mushroom swarm into each warforage; giving them something close enough to real life. Soon, these constructs swarmed the lands with every adventuring party in the region.
This was a long time ago but descendents of the warforages built by the Swarmkeeper still walk these lands, each one carrying, somewhere deep inside of them, some mycelium that dates back to Moonbeam himself.
Meanwhile, today, somewhere nearby, deep in a forest long forgotten, a small construct automaton, buried under layers of soil and ash and plant roots for generations, finally pokes above the surface and climbs to its feet. Even if it had all its bits, this tiny Autognome looks like something built by a very young child. Seemingly gaining energy from the moonlight somehow, it transforms into a small wooden cube and a fey bat appears overhead, grabs the cube, and begins flying in the direction Nine Trees believes its creator to be in.
Nine Trees finds the Starry Shore mainstreet and wanders to the Temple-Forge of Innovation. Pledging its construct soul to Purphorus, the Autognome is granted a mighty staff and a place to stay and work while in the area.
Almost immediately, Nine Trees gets involved in a wild west shootout, winning a neat cowboy hat and their first gold coins. With this newfound confidence, they meet Orion, a Loxadon, who sends them on a quest to a cave with a Forge of Souls. During this adventure, Nine Trees’ wooden cube is destroyed by a gelatinous cube, but then they met a snake and some bugbears so that was pretty cool.
Nine Trees traveled to the Grove of Nylea after returning to the Starry Shores and had a few drinks with the druids while looking for a suitable chunk of wood to use for a new tiny cube. He eventually found one and returned to the Temple-Forge of Innovation and went to its woodcarving corner.
Still admiring the hunk of hollow wood it found in the Grove of Nylea, Nine Trees placed it on a workbench and began a ritual to Purphorus to craft a new genie vessel. Casting Druidcraft to fill the space with weather energy, and then using Prestidigitation to elicit ambient birdsong and the scent of chamomile as the symbol of Purphorus floats overhead, Nine Trees used their Woodcarving Tools, as well as the spells Magehand, Unseen Servant, & Elevated Sight, to perfectly sculpt a new cube, covered in intricate Sylvan runes, with a hollow center. Holding their new vessel in the air as the hour-long ritual comes to a close and the cantrips fade away, Nine Trees was rather happy with their updated model.
After some more adventures around the Starry Shores, Nine Trees ventured to the true shrine of Purphorus to reflect on the future, upgrading its connection to the elements, and solidifying its pact with its genie creator into something more tangible than ever before. Losing much of its already light personality, Nine Trees the Autognome grew stronger overnight under the blessing of Purphorus, becoming a much more formidable battle-bot.
Finding a comfortable spot in the Temple-Forge of Innovation, Nine Trees entered Sentry Mode and has been observing the artificers as they work for quite some time.
