Durtik

Unlike other gremlins who are satisfied with causing discomfort or pain to a few individuals, durtiks think big. They enjoy overwrought plans and complicated devices that often cause chaos. Durtiks live on the outskirts of societies that possess great engineering prowess, gleaning technical knowledge and expertise. They use these gathered skills to build elaborate death traps. A durtik will happily spend years building a device that chips away at a mountain until it causes an avalanche that destroys a town. Fortunately for the civilizations they lurk near, durtik plans almost never reach fruition; the fey abhor simplicity and directness, insisting on complexity and grandiosity, making their plans easy to disrupt. Often, these plans overlook a crucial detail or avoid some basic truth that causes them to implode halfway through without anyone in the nearby town any wiser there was a plan at all. This penchant for self-sabotage, however, doesn't make durtiks less dangerous. Their desire for grand destruction makes them uniquely inspiring among other gremlins. It's common to find a durtik surrounded by other gremlins inspired by their vision, even if those followers don't fully understand it. The gremlins stick around until they lose interest or the plans implode. Until then, a durtik and their crew concentrate their chaos and spread plenty of misfortune as they enact their ill-fated scheme.

Smarter Than You

Because durtiks are often smarter than other gremlins around them, they think they are the smartest person in the room wherever they go. Canny adventurers who are aware of this can butter them up with grandiose compliments, distracting the durtik and making them more likely to accidentally share information.