the gnome, the myth, the legend. The paymaster of this entire venture, Theo is the gnome who likes to know the most and is currently sponsering the 'great archelogical dig' of the gauntlight to try and figure out its mysteries (And launder a shit tonne of money with illicit artifact selling!).
Theo is a gnome from, what he claims, Pitax where he attended the university and was a professor of archeology. He then claims to have either been kicked out or left (depending on when you ask him) and set off across the world to do archeology. He has shown up in otari to hire a bunch of idiots to dig out the gauntlight and get some relics for his new archaeology guild, in which he is the guildmaster.
Theo is a gnome alchemist who likes nailbombs and warcrimes, he really puts teddy boy to shame.