EGGWARD NOUGHTINGHAM

Based on the canon narrative from your Drakharis documents, here’s a refined, fully integrated backstory for Eggward, your brother-in-law’s red kobold arsonist:

 Eggward “Cindersnout” Varkix Noughtingham

Race: Red Kobold

Class: Rogue (Arsonist;)

Background: Criminal – Specialty: Arsonist

Age: 62

Origin: Ashclaw District, Drakharis

Faction Ties: Freelance operative for the Black Sigil and Burned Chain cells of the Hollow Masks

Citizenship Tier: Tier IV (Writless)

Alias: “Cindersnout”

Distinctive Feature: A scorched 1800s-style flat cap he never removes

 Integrated Backstory (Canon-Compatible)

Born beneath the fumes of the Ashclaw District, Eggward emerged from a soot-streaked kobold warren built into the side of an abandoned crematorium known as the Pyre Pits. He was named ironically by his mother after a half-forgotten children’s book character—Eggward the Honest. There was nothing honest about the world he was born into.

His parents worked in refuse sorting and crematory fuel prep. When Eggward was twelve, an “accidental” igniting of volatile spell-oil during a night shift burned down his family hovel and three adjoining tenements. No one was punished. Eggward survived. He never denied starting it.

Soon after, he was scooped up by a fringe Black Sigil handler known as Krell Marn, who saw promise in the small, unblinking kobold and trained him in incendiary sabotage. By twenty, Eggward was a ghost in the ash-smoke, torching Pact ration convoys, surveillance towers, and once, an unguarded scry-node relay in Veilworks.

He became infamous among criminal circles for his work with:

• The Burned Chain: a Hollow Mask splinter cell that uses flame to destroy regime targets
  
  
• The Smuggler Ferrymen Guild: whom he pays in “clean ash” to ferry him through the Smuggler’s Canal
  
  
• Black Sigil psy-clerks: who buy his arson patterns to interpret emotional resistance symbols hidden in the scorch
  
  

Eggward’s flat cap—singed, oily, and centuries out of style—was taken off the corpse of a Gilded Heights scribe who tried to turn him in during a ferry job gone wrong. He wears it like a crown.

 Psychological Profile

• Belief: “The Iron Pact fears fire. Not the destruction—but the choice to start it.”
  
  
• Ideal: Destruction as revelation. Fire strips away lies.
  
  
• Flaw: Compulsively starts small fires in emotional distress—candles, matches, ash-patterns.
  
  
• Bond: Keeps a vial of scorched brick from his family home in a hollowed matchbox.
  
  

 Current Role in Drakharis

• Operates out of the Whispering Warrens, often near Bloodstone Market or The Dagger Path
  
  
• Contracts with Hollow Mask saboteurs to incinerate memory archives, loyalty schools, or propaganda printing presses
  
  
• Has survived Blackflow Duty after a job gone wrong near Sub-Crypt 3b—he left with new burns and less memory, but an unshakable compulsion to “let the flame choose”
  
  

Rumors

He’s whispered about by both rebels and wardens as “The Ember-Tongue’s Favorite Spark.”

 ALLIES & KNOWN ASSOCIATES

1. Krevik "The Inkcut" Marron

Faction: Black Sigil
Role: Forger, memory sigilist
District: Ashclaw → Whispering Warrens
Connection: Krevik is Eggward’s primary contact for acquiring forged writs, smuggled spell-inks, and identity shards. He once tattooed a fire glyph directly into Eggward’s forearm so he could spark flames silently in anti-magic zones.
Quirk: Speaks only in questions when working—“You sure this glyph won’t burn you inside out?”

2. Tala Whisperveil

Faction: Hollow Masks (Lantern Circle)
Role: Courier & Ferrypilot in the Smuggler Ferrymen Guild
District: Grand Markets Canals → Dagger Paths
Connection: Tala ferries Eggward through the canals during blackout operations. She insists on coded lullabies as passwords and keeps his presence secret even from other rebels. The two share a strange, silent affection—though never spoken aloud.
Quote: “If the stars fall, I’ll still find you in the smoke.”

3. Jarn Fexlight

Faction: Guttergleam Syndicate (Neutral contact)
Role: Alchemist and supplier of accelerants
District: Veilworks Underbridges
Connection: Jarn supplies Eggward with Silentfire Resin and smoke-variant hallucination bombs. They don’t trust each other—but Jarn admires Eggward’s chaos and knows a good firebomb test case when he sees one.
Tension: Jarn secretly sells Eggward’s fire patterns to rival saboteurs for profit.

 ENEMIES & RIVALS

1. Archivist Lerra Tharne

Faction: Office of Inner Rectitude
Role: Memory Inquisitor, specializing in fire-linked trauma
District: Obsidian Archive
Grudge: Eggward burned a minor Rectifier cell housing a scry-node in Veilworks, disrupting months of curated memory captures. Lerra is obsessed with finding him—not to kill, but to “harvest the deviant memory patterns he thinks are his own.”
Method: Sends subliminal recall glyphs through the canals to lure him toward false memories.

2. Raxa “The Blade” Valrune

Faction: Red Daggers
Role: Gang leader, extortionist
District: Ashclaw
Rivalry: Eggward refused to torch a tenement the Red Daggers wanted cleared for territory—he claimed it “had stories in its walls.” Raxa lost face and now considers Eggward a loose end.
Status: Has a standing bounty on Eggward’s location—alive, to make an example.

3. “Brother Flint”

Faction: Unknown—possible Hollow Mask dissident or Pact sleeper agent
Role: Unknown; poses as a preacher of Mavria
District: Wanders between Ashclaw and canal-edge shrines
Threat: Flint warns against “chaotic fire” and calls Eggward a “false martyr.” He’s gathering followers who want the rebellion to stay clean—no more burning, no more collateral.
Belief: Claims Eggward is unknowingly doing the regime’s work by making rebels look like terrorists.