Motorton

It’s come a long way in the two centuries since the location of its city center was the site of a plague pit for Fort Narrows.

Since those earliest days, Motorton has been the home of a magical being called the Red Dwarf in the earliest records. This entity is recorded as a harbinger of calamity. He once appeared as a redcap—a gnome-like being with a cap dyed by blood. Now, he’s more often seen as a dwarf dressed dapperly in a crimson suit. Rumor holds that those unlucky enough to have an audience with the dwarf are brought to a Room with Red Velvet Curtains (sometimes just “The Red Room''). Visitors—survivors—describe the room as located in the basement of a ritzy old hotel–but no one has been able to locate the building or provide directions to it later.

What comes from a meeting with the Dwarf can’t be predicted. Sometimes, he’ll tell his visitor’s future. Other times, he’ll ask him for a favor, or tell him how he can get his heart’s desire. However it starts, it always plays out badly. A meeting with the dwarf is an ill omen nevermind how sharply he’s dressed.

It’s worth noting that the infernal criminal organization known as the Hell Syndicate stays out of Motorton. It’s the dwarf’s city.

1. He can only be hurt by magical weapons.
2. The tea he sometimes offers visitors can bring strange visions and cause madness.
3. He carries a pocket watch whose hands only move when someone dies—or maybe when someone in particular dies.
4. Bones excavated from the old, mass plague graves can be used to ward against him.
5. He’s only dangerous because Motorton’s sick. If the city could be healed, the dwarf would be benevolent.
6. The dwarf is only a midget human sorcerer cashing in on an old legend. It’s all smoke and mirrors.
7. There’s a red leather journal of a young girl who died in an asylum that contains (in its ramblings) the Red Dwarf’s true name— and the ritual to bind him to service.
8. The dwarf is always accompanied by the same gang–a black-haired moll in a red dress with a silky voice, and twin bruisers with the same first name.
9. The Red Room is actually the lowest level of Hell. The dwarf is actually Morningstar in disguise.
10. The dwarf isn’t a real entity at all, just the physical representation of the death curse of a Native shaman on the Ealderdish invaders. Treating it like a real being only increases its power.

Source: Weird Adventures