Fetch (ca.? AC - 420 AC) was a male kobold thief who was one of the travelling companions of Dhamon Grimwulf following his departure from the Heroes of the Heart. He was often mistaken for a kender, being of the same height and also since he commonly wielded a hoopak. The hoopak had been acquired from a kender who the young kobold had befriended in his youth, but later killed during an argument over some treasure. Fetch was normally always covered in a hooded cloak to hide his racial features.
The kobold met the thief Maldred in the wilderness, and Maldred detected the spark of magic in Fetch. Maldred took interest in Fetch and began to teach him some basic magic, and the pair become good companions and quite literally as "thick as thieves". The two thieves travelled together for a number of years, and frequently journeyed to Bloten, where Fetch was known to many of the ogres there. The kobold's true name was Ilbreth, however he earned the nickname "Fetch", as he would often fetch things for others.
In 420 AC, Fetch travelled with Maldred, and two newer recruits to Mal's group, Dhamon and Rikali. The quartet travelled through the town of Ironspike and the south of Thoradin, and eventually into Bloten. From the ogre city, he and his companions made their way to the village of Knollsbank, and found a nearby a cave that was infested with trolls. Fetch had a strong love of fire, and the pyromaniac set the cave entrance on fire and caused its collapse, trapping himself and his companions in the caverns set further into the ground. Deep in the caverns, Fetch and his comrades found a dais with a small pool, which the kobold discerned as being a device of Nuitari, used by black-robed wizards to divine answers. Fetch used the device to answer the questions that his companions had, however the pool exacted a horrible price on him, by stealing his life and aging him beyond his years.
The diminutive kobold died of old age in the caverns, as his companions escaped through the route he had shown them.
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- Downfall, p.18-284