Kitchen Stove

Taeral Tyrind, dwarf captain of the Vailian privateer carrack Furiato Vielo, learned well the deadly business of deck-to-deck combat over his long years of violent plunder. The blunderbuss, his boarding crew's favored weapon, was well suited to the task of sweeping an enemy deck of opponents - but reloading such a weapon was damnably slow in the heat of combat. Taeral, a capable gunsmith, set forth to improve his own weapon.

He needed a firearm that could be loaded quickly. It had to be able to, in his words, "fire anything, even the godsdamned kitchen stove." In that endeavor, he was successful. The gun he crafted could accommodate just about any type of ammunition so long as it fit down the trumpet-like barrel. Taeral was known to load nails, forks, and even coins into the gun. In a particularly grisly recollection, after suffering a near fatal gunshot wound to the face, he is said to have rammed a handful of his own broken teeth into the trusty weapon before shooting his attacker dead.

Taeral, aged, scarred, and battle-weary, eventually retired. Ill-suited to a life ashore, he fell on hard times and was forced to pawn the weapon that had saved his life many times over. Both he and the weapon faded into obscurity.