Executive Chairman

Osborn wants to ensure his mining company, Osborn Enterprises, becomes the largest and wealthiest company in the world. 

 All that remains of Obsorn’s original body is his head, which is suspended in a jar of magical preserving liquid. He relies on a specially-constructed, one-of-a-kind magitech suit that allows him to walk, talk, and experience the world around him. 

 Osborn is singularly focused on making as much money for himself as possible at the cost of all other pursuits. If it doesn’t make him money quickly, Osborn isn’t interested. 

Enguerrand Osborn’s story begins three decades ago when he was a young man in Arkgow, the city of industry and possibility. Osborn and his good friend Hewlow were business partners and augmenters — builders and inventors who could infuse magic into mundane materials to create spectacular new inventions. Osborn was smart, but Hewlow was brilliant. Hewlow had been intensely interested in augments that enhanced a person’s natural capability, such as gloves that increased grip strength or goggles that provided night vision. Hewlow discovered that the inherent magic of the elemental creatures known as 

 could be used to power his augmentations much more effectively than regular steam. By gradually consuming the steam mephits for power, the potential of the augmentations and what they would be capable of would skyrocket. Drawing from the fortune inherited from their fathers, Osborn and Hewlow founded a mining operation that would serve two purposes. The first would be to gather coal, which was valuable in its own right. The second, however, was more important. A mining operation would allow the company to dig deep into the earth to find elemental rifts from which steam mephits could be gathered to power their augmentations. 

One day, while Osborn and Hewlow were taking a tour of a new mine, Osborn was caught in a freak collapse and just barely rescued; on the brink of death with his body broken from the rubble. Though Osborn was stabilized, it became clear his injuries would give him only a few weeks to live. Hewlow dove into his research and worked tirelessly for several days to construct for Osborn an entirely new body facilitated by the steam mephit augmentations, his magnum opus. Though what remained of Osborn’s original body was now only his head suspended in a magical preserving liquid, he had otherwise been granted a new lease on life. He could walk, talk, and even retain most of his sensory experiences. It was a major breakthrough and an augmentation miracle. Hewlow wanted to license out the steam mephit magitech, believing that if their research was shared, they could better society while still collecting a tidy profit. Osbon disagreed, wanting to keep the breakthrough proprietary to give their company an unprecedented competitive advantage to make the pair of them obscenely rich men. The disagreement would not be resolved peacefully. Osborn, seeing a path to ultimate power and wealth in his grasp and long envious of Hewlow’s brilliance, murdered his business partner, took his research for himself, and stripped his former friend from the company name. In the years that have followed, Osborn Enterprises has generated incalculable wealth using the steam mephit magitech. The company controls several coal mines and has expanded into many adjacent ventures to generate exorbitant profits. Osborn runs the now-massive company like a tyrant — working conditions are poor, employees are paid little, and many of Osborn’s workers are indentured servants who work for free for the company as punishment for breaking local laws. This brings Osborn joy, for every additional gold piece that lines his pockets brings him one step closer to total corporate supremacy.

Osborn is ruthless with his implementation of the 

, posting them at every possible location in his factories and mines and ensuring that they treat the workers as harshly as possible to ensure compliance. Osborn has also augmented particular strikebreakers to add additional functionality so that he can use them to serve as enhanced guards for his many properties. His most prized strikebreaker, named Ol’ Daisy, guards his personal villa and is equipped with a mephit-powered lightning discharge cannon that can kill a healthy man with a single blast, if necessary.  

Osborn is far too paranoid to leave his most precious belongings in any regular safe. He keeps the secret blueprints to his suit, the desiccated heart of his former flesh-and-blood body, and a stock of the most expensive cigars in the world within an 

 that he usually keeps by his side at all times. Osborn can’t actually smoke the cigars, but he enjoys lighting them to experience their smell through his intake openings. Osborn has memorized the safe’s complex combination and shares the password with nobody. 

 named Cogs. Because of his unique condition, Osborn knows that the survival of his brain relies on the seamless functioning of his magitech components, which may malfunction if he is not careful. He has augmented Cogs so that the mechanical bird is able to detect a sudden or potentially dangerous change in his anatomy, such as when the magic of a specific component begins to fade or when his suit is running low and must be replenished with fresh steam memphits. Cogs’ ability is one-of-a-kind and would take Osborn many months to recreate, making him feel very vulnerable if anything were to happen to the bird. 

To support the strikebreakers, dozens of 

 patrol all of Osborn’s businesses and properties to help keep operations running smoothly. Not only do the supervisors alert Osborn of any incidents that might require his personal attention, the supervisors also transmit information to the strikebreakers as necessary so that the enforcing constructs can correct any wrongdoing witnessed by the supervisors. 

were one of the few inventions of Hewlow’s that Osborn was able to improve upon by increasing their drill strength and lengthening the amount of time they could function before overheating. The tunnel borers are critical to Osborn Enterprises, as they allow the company to dig deep enough into the earth to find rifts to the elemental planes from which steam mephits can be gathered. Osborn has also purchased the blind eye of local government by selling them modified tunnel borers that are well-suited to siege combat purposes at a steep discount. 

 are the foundation of Osborn Enterprises, which has accumulated the bulk of its profits on mephit-powered magitech. After the tunnel borers have dug the tunnels and the workers have located a suitable elemental rift, the mephit materializers are sent in to reach through the rift and capture any steam mephits lingering on the other side. The materializers then return to a specialized storage facility to deposit the mephits so that they can be later used as fuel for augments.

If Enguerrand has to resort to direct physical confrontation with the party, he will do everything in his power to prepare accordingly and fight on his own terms, using his vast resources to learn the party’s strengths and weaknesses if possible and ensuring that he does not fight without all the help he can get. 

If possible, before combat begins, Enguerrand uses his Subservient Spellcasting ability to cast the 

spell on himself. Enguerrand uses his Scalding Steam ability as often as he can, positioning himself to hit the highest number of targets possible. He will also use his legendary actions throughout his turn to grapple and then shove a target closer to another target to enable more damage from his Scalding Steam ability. Enguerrand will prioritize lower-health targets that he can reach to focus his belly thrust and unarmed strikes on, using legendary actions to move and give himself better positioning to avoid tankier party members if possible. 

This ruthless entrepreneur murdered his own business partner so that he could be the sole profiteer of their combined works. His workers suffer under inhumane conditions for his sole benefit. 