Black Dwarf
The Black Dwarf, a Nocker Grump, is a Jewish toymaker in the Schwarzwald / Black Forest region of Germany.
Overview
This nocker endured the indignities suffered by all Jews as the Nazi noose tightened, culminating in 1938 with the burning of her shop on Kristallnacht: the night of broken glass. She escaped Poland in the hopes of leaving behind the persecution, only to be confined in Gross Rosen. She was briefly blinded during her escape from the concentration camp, though she managed to kill several Nazis with her devastating "White Star" traps. She was recaptured soon afterward and deported to the Buma work camp beside Auschwitz, where her skills were turned to production for the Nazi war machine.
Being so close a witness and victim to the atrocities committed by the Nazis might have Undone most fae but it only incensed her into taking a chance to escape when a guard's attention lapsed just long enough to work a cantrip. Once outside she joined a resistance movement where she met others equally determined to strike fast and hard at their oppressors. She became known as the "Black Dwarf" among those fae in the resistance, now putting her trap-making skills to work hounding the Nazis and assisting Jews to escape the ghettos and work camps. One legend ascribed to her is the misdirection of a rail car filled with prisoners headed for Teresin which was somehow switched with a load of chickens.
With the liberation of the camps and the end of the war, she returned to her quiet life in the Black Forest, rebuilding her shop, and going back to work. The shop, and its owner, can still be found there today.
References
- CTD. Kithbook: Nockers, p. 39.