Fnipper was raised your average Gnome, bestowed with the knack for engineering all Gnomes enjoy. His father, Ishmael Marley Zookenheimersteinbergbaum and Shirley Tinlan Zookenheimersteinbergbaum-Cogspinner were kind, simple folk, raising their only boy in the homeland of Gnomeregan. However, when Fnipper was but a wee Gnomeling, he could see and hear things. Demons, specifically. All the ones that surround us and permeate the world, invisible and between dimensions... Fnipper could see them. He hadn't slept very well for a long time.