PEGLEG NO MORE: OF OTT STEELTOES AND GONDAN PROSTHETICS

PEGLEG NO MORE
Of Ott Steeltoes and Gondan Prosthetics

Ott Steeltoes is an aging, slow-moving dwarf who continues to serve the Xanathar, for the last two decades as a seller and trader (swapper) of stolen goods—and as a watchdog over younger and more energetic smugglers working in the Xanathar’s guild. So he’s often “on the road” between Waterdeep and Scornubel, Triel, Beregost, and Baldur’s Gate, or holed up in those settlements having shady meetings in back rooms (the Xanathar uses resident agents in Neverwinter and Elturel).

Ott is a gruff, testy miser, but uses his “old, crotchety and simple-minded dwarf” act to conceal shrewd judgement of strangers, a lot of patience, and a mind that swiftly sees costs, profit margins, consequences, and possible hurdles. 

Ott’s real name is Ottullar Ironmaster, though he was expelled from his clan (as of the 1490s DR, his few close relatives are scattered in mountain-cavern holds around Durpar and Semphar) long ago, after he could find no tenable way to lie his way out of responsibility for his sixth murder of a fellow clan member.

First infamous as a pirate along the Sword Coast, and after his retirement to onshore smuggling, notorious in Waterdeep for years due to his pegleg (which made him readily identifiable by witnesses to a crime), Ott now has a “full leg” prosthesis custom-made by clergy of Gond, for which he paid 25,000 gold pieces (he also owns two earlier, cruder backup legs, the first of which cost 27,000 gp, and the second, 20,000 gp).

Ott’s old pegleg (now stored in hiding within one end of the hollow gigantic headboard of the massive four-poster bed upon which he’s known to sport with various ladies of negotiable affections) bore enchantments that quelled all pain in his stump and bonded it securely to it, so he had little need for straps and a harness.

However, the prosthetics offered by temples of Gond have improved markedly throughout the 1330s and 1400s DR, until even a miser like Ott was unable to resist an upgrade.

Gondan Prosthetics
A typical arm or leg prosthesis offered by Gondite clergy looks like...

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