Phoph Crevain

An engineer turned pirate, Phoph Crevain has explored a large section of Anyaral with his crew on his custom steamboat, including the odd excursion into the Naralon Forests. During one trip into the forests he captured a couple of young trebarnii. which he has kept as pets, training them to serve as guards for his vessel*.

Phoph fights using a mechanical staff, which is kitted with a retractable hook and chain, allowing him to hit his opponents from a reasonably safe distance.

He is known to his crew as the mite whisperer: he’s versed in the capture of the tiny pests, which he releases against his opponents’ boats. His own boat is immune to the effect, as he’s created an anti-fouling paint that the mites abhor. A nice side effect of the paint is that his boat is faster for its size than one would expect.

Phoph is in for a rude awakening though. Unbeknownst to him, a small band of trebarnii have been hunting him for a while. Their leader is a diminutive water ranger, who knows the way of the river and can call its denizens to his aid. This includes the dreaded river akitiin…

• He doesn’t consider them to be slaves (which would be abhorrent to the fubarnii), but some of the more philosophical engineers of Larigal are starting to question the ethics of how the Trebarnii are currently treated in some parts of the Empire.