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'''Yrre the Sparkstruck''' was a [[Gnome|Gnomish]] inventor and tinkerer. They enjoyed puns, spikes, and most of all electricity, inventing many objects that created or benefited from {{DamageType|Lightning}}.
'''Yrre the Sparkstruck''' was a [[Gnome|gnomish]] inventor and tinkerer. They{{ref|While Yrre's gender is unknown, all sources in the game refer to them using gender neutral pronouns (they/them), similarly to characters created with non-binary identities.|note}} enjoyed puns, spikes, and most of all electricity, inventing many objects that created or benefited from {{DamageType|Lightning}}.
 
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Yrre became obsessed with lightning when they first left the Underdark and encountered a powerful storm<ref>[[The Watersparkers]]: "An enormous storm was raging the first time Yrre the Sparkstruck left the Underdark. The deep gnome's interest in lightning at once became an all-consuming obsession, and they would spend the rest of their years trying to recreate that storm's power themselves."</ref>. They were in a relationship with [[Lenore De Hurst]], the owner of the [[Arcane Tower]]. After a falling-out<ref>[[Letter to Yrre]]: "I don't know if you're coming back ... Despite everything, I still love you."</ref>, Yrre left the Tower. They eventually returned, but Lenore was long gone<ref>[[The Spellsparkler]]: "Yrre the Sparkstruck intended to give the Spellsparkler to Lenore a cleric of Mystra and old lover. But when the gnome returned to the cleric's tower, they found it empty - inhabited only by dust and abandoned experiments."</ref>. It is unknown what happened to Yrre after this, but many of their inventions are found scattered across the [[Underdark]] and [[Grymforge]].
== History ==
 
Yrre became obsessed with lightning when they first left the Underdark and encountered a powerful storm{{ref|[[The Watersparkers]]: "An enormous storm was raging the first time Yrre the Sparkstruck left the Underdark. The deep gnome's interest in lightning at once became an all-consuming obsession, and they would spend the rest of their years trying to recreate that storm's power themselves."|act1}}. They were in a relationship with [[Lenore De Hurst]], the owner of the [[Arcane Tower]]. After a falling-out{{ref|[[Letter to Yrre]]: "I don't know if you're coming back ... Despite everything, I still love you."|act1}}, Yrre left the Tower. They eventually returned, but Lenore was long gone{{ref|[[The Spellsparkler]]: "Yrre the Sparkstruck intended to give the Spellsparkler to Lenore a cleric of Mystra and old lover. But when the gnome returned to the cleric's tower, they found it empty - inhabited only by dust and abandoned experiments."|act3}}. It is unknown what happened to Yrre after this, but many of their inventions are found scattered across the [[Underdark]] and [[Grymforge]].
All sources in the game refer to Yrre only as "them", suggesting that they may have been non-binary.  


== Inventions ==
== Inventions ==
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