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Born in the midst of the great Gnomish Industrial
Revelation (267 A.C.), he was a pampered and protected
child who could have expected a Life Quest in keeping
with those of his family - a career as an optical illusion
inventor or a winch facilitator. Instead, as he said once in a
playful moment, he became a topical allusion vendor and a
wench facilitator - translated ungraciously by one human,10
who never understood his sensitive and generous poetic
soul, as "a gossip and a skirt-chaser."
As the youngest of three children, Armavir's life was
scarred by early tragedy, his father entangled and dragged
to death through a malfunctioning pulley system while
facilitating a winch (rumors abounding that he was tied to
the fatal rope by a jealous husband), an older brother
mistaking the reflection of an onyx ornamental pool for
actual water and, clad only in swimsuit and water wings,
plunging to his death from atop a fifty-foot stalagmite, an
older sister (who, alas, promised in her meager thirteen
years to be the genuine beauty of the family) catapulted to
her untimely end by an experimental steam-powered
seesaw. Needless to say, it was the lad's mother (the
charming and still active
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