Name: Zag II “The Splicer” Zags Age: 52 Nationality / Region: Solitary Monster – Central Solis Plateau Role: Slave Trader / Power Broker Class: Ruler (Goblin Warlord Variant) -Ruthlessly Pragmatic: Everything is measured in cost, yield, and survival. Mercy is inefficient. -Authoritarian: Believes hierarchy is natural and weakness invites extinction. -Charismatic in a Cold Way: Speaks calmly and convincingly, even while discussing atrocities. -Contemptuous of Sentiment: Views empathy as a luxury the Solis Plateau cannot afford. Zag II earned the name “the Splicer” not for cruelty alone, but for logistics. Where other goblin bosses ran crude slave pits, Zag systematized the trade. He mapped canal routes, water rights, breeding lines, and labor yields across the Solis Plateau, selling not just bodies but futures. Castration, separation, and resale were not punishments in his eyes, merely inventory adjustments in a dying land. Under his leadership, several settlements survived drought years that would have wiped them out, and that success hardened his belief that morality was a lie told by the comfortable. Ruzgar was raised not as a son, but as an asset. Zag taught him numbers before letters, bargaining before speech, and value before empathy. When Ruzgar began questioning prices, refusing to appraise living beings by lifespan alone, Zag saw not conscience, but betrayal. To Zag, his son’s softness is an existential threat: proof that comfort breeds decay. Their relationship fractured when Ruzgar began trading independently with Marineers, abandoning the Plateau’s ruthless equilibrium for the illusion of respect. Zag has not disowned him publicly, but privately considers him already lost.