Our gaming group has amassed around 200-250 minis from all kinds of different places over 5 or 6 years. Leslie went through them and picked some that looked fun, and for some reason this ugly guy jumped out at her, who knows where he came from.
One thing Leslie really likes doing is working off reference work to get something to turn out precisely the way the person she's doing it for wants. She about kicked me when I remembered that there is a picture of Kerwyn in the PHB. AFTER she had finished the mini. Oops.
If any of you have kept a whole lot of minis with no place to store or transport them besides shoe boxes you know terrible things happen to those with long appendages or pieces that stick way out. Consider that a lesson learned here.
Heh. Real dwarf's dwarf here. Dunlop has risen all the way through the ranks and is now the reigning King of his own Dwarven Citadel. My best memory of him is him with his 8 dex trying to tumble away from a dragon with his -10 armor check penalty. Even though he fell flat on his face, the dragon got nothing but armor spikes. He came up spitting dirt telling us that was the way dwarves tumbled.