Ambrose Pierce

Ambrose Pierce was a human from the plane of Eberron who founded the unbound city of Hearth.

Life
Ambrose was born into a bardic family tradition in a city on the plane of Eberron but despite his talents grew tired of this lifestyle and found purpose on the road, swindling.

He amassed a small fortune in this time (along with a burgeoning ego and following) and eventually set up a fund to secure his twisted idea of a legacy. Using this fund he supplied explorers to venture outside of the plane to settle a new place for him to found. Ambrose claimed this was due to an impending end times.

Eventually, after many years the ruins of a city sized forge was found wandering the Astral Sea, somehow habitable. Ambrose and his followers (now known as the Order of the Unblinking Eye) settled this plane and named it Hearth. Here they set about building homes from the winding pipes and machinery of the long abandoned forge and eventually began using it to produce all sort of magically imbued items for trade to the other planes, funding their lifestyles.

At this point Ambrose himself was old and dying and had his order working night and day to find a way to extend his life. They settled on a plan but not without cost. Ambrose was tinkered with and blessed and cursed with both technology and necromantic magic.