![]() ![]() He disappeared shortly after the evacuation of the irradiated city. ( MG 168)Īfter the irradiation of the majority of the gnomish race, Sicco was branded a traitor and was sentenced to death. ![]() He controls his land with a tyrannical fist, destroying outsiders as rapidly as any other enemy. To this day he rules over the leper gnomes and continues fighting the troggs. However, in the ensuing chaos, Thermaplugg had begun calling himself a king. The radiation killed more gnomes than troggs, and many other gnomes in Gnomeregan's walls also suffered from radiation and became leper gnomes. Despite this, he lived and mutated into a leper gnome. Some speak that it was his ambition that saved him, while others say he hid and suffered the least of the poison. Despite his age and frailty, he did not die. However, due to reasons even Thermaplugg can't remember, he found himself locked inside Gnomeregan when the bomb release began. Mekigneer Thermaplug rules the fallen city of Gnomeregan from the Tinkers' Court ( WoWMan 175) It's currently only speculation, but many believe that Thermaplugg was the mastermind behind the entire trogg invasion. Though those reports were never verified, Mekkatorque believes they could be true. It is rumored that Thermaplugg actually knew of the trogg invasion before it began, and that he ushered in the events that befell the Gnomish race. ( MG 168) This treason against his people was only worsened when he used trickery and guile to convince the High Tinker to open the flood vents and release the bomb's radiation upon the grand city knowing well the result. If a few gnomes died in the process, he stated, it would be a worthy sacrifice for saving the entire race. After weeks of debate, he convinced Mekkatorque to flood the halls of Gnomeregan with radiation via a bomb, thus killing the troggs. Thermaplugg claimed that the world outside didn't need to be bothered by gnomish problems, for he had an idea that would both destroy the image of Mekkatorque and win him the throne. ( WoWMan 175) It was his idea that, during the trogg invasion, the gnomes shut themselves from the world. A brooding but imaginative engineer, he served as Mekkatorque's chief advisor for many years, continuing to covet the role of High Tinker. Through working the system and gaining favor among the intellectual elite, Thermaplugg eventually won the seat of advisor to the High Tinker. Thermaplugg's sanity broke that day, and he planned on gaining revenge over his friend. Nothing would stop him! However, his closest friend, Gelbin Mekkatorque, ruined all of his goals when the council of tinkers decided that Thermaplugg was too ambitious and chose Mekkatorque instead. He envisioned a great kingdom out of Gnomeregan, carved out of the entire western half of Dun Morogh, even if it meant relocating the nearby dwarven communities in the name of progress. He worked unceasingly toward his goal, for Thermaplugg planned not only making High Tinker, but also becoming the gnome's first true king in over four hundred years. He cunningly laid the way to the seat, charming people to his side and cranking out one great invention after the next. Mekgineer Sicco Thermaplugg was once a brilliant and wise tinker, who despite being incredibly frail even at a young age, was destined to be High Tinker. ![]()
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