House Scuttlepuff

Founder: Clause Klaws

Mascot: Crabglove

House Item: Gauntlet

House Colors: Orange and Pearl

Deep inside the bowels of the Dranofil mountains, in great halls carved within its roots, live the industrious people known as the Scuttlepuff. Those of the gauntlet are drawn to the specialty of transmutation because they are typically curious, sharp-minded, and deeply analytical. They are often fascinated by the exercise of putting things together and taking them apart again.

Transmuters are natural tinkerers, often more interested in objects than in the creatures who create and wield them. With minds attuned more to finding out how things work than to reasoning out why things are as they are, transmuters can be obsessive collectors, excellent scholars, and clear thinkers, but they aren’t especially prone to profound philosophical insights. The people of Scuttlepuff respect the traditions of their clan, and do not abandon them lightly. Part of those traditions is an unwavering devotion to the divine Blacksmith Above All, who uphold the principal ideals of industrious labor, skill in battle, devotion to the forge and the art of creation.

Because of their focus on change and the forces that drive it, Scuttlepuff tend to see moral matters in terms of that change. They believe that good and evil are relative concepts, dependent on existing conditions and seldom permanent, and so they make little distinction between them.

Most craftsmen and merchants, dwarven or otherwise, are drawn to this House. Soldiers and mercenaries find the most comfort in Scuttlepuff because to the clear majority of the other wizardly Houses, they are little more than well-armed Muggles. The wizards that dwell within this House are few and far between. Scuttlepuff is the house of misfits. If you don’t belong anywhere else, you’ll most likely end up here.

The Scuttlepuff “Muck-Workers” harvest the excrement of the Crabglove creature. It's slimy muck-like feces is a powerful spell component and a magical conductive agent used in many enchanted items, weapons, staffs, and wands. Without the Scuttlepuff’s talented and delicate use of the Crabglove muck, most items don't work very well. As a rule, these enchanters don’t have magic of their own. They rely on using enchanted weapons and magic items instead of natural abilities. Scuttlepuff enchanted items are the best for this reason and how they separate themselves from the other Houses.