Mirach

A kobold that works as a guide for people traveling, like "oh you need to get to this place? I know the way follow me along these mountains". His job is to get a customer from point A to point B efficiently and safely. He’s from the Western Continent and he remains there for the whole of his life, currently anyways. He’s one of those kobolds who come from a region where ressources are scarce and fight a lot over those. For his job he’s always traveling around. He’s left his hometown behind in the hope of coming back one day with enough money to make a difference. He dared to hope for better, for a way of life that’s more than survival, but that’s just not how things are done where he lives.

He met Nor when she was 16 and he 18, when one year into doing business in just the region around her village she actually decides to go travel the continents. Meanwhile I imagine he’d been a guide for ~3-4 years by that point, just starting to make a name for himself with people here and there who know he’s a guide and see him come back from trips. They traveled together for a couple months and ended up bonding. Since Kobold discrimination is rough in his area the job market is tough on him, but except if you travel with caravans it’s a rather important and needed job so he’s able to find work, especially since he prices low. Kobolds are seen as making competent guides, but they aren’t trusted to not stab customers in the back.
Kobolds often resort to being bandits in his region. They’ve been known to scheme and to an ambush, and so besides general conflict and tensions, kobold guides are generally very distrusted, thinking that they may be part of a group pretending to be a guide to steal the resources from the travelers and probably kill them.
I see him kinda like Chil in that way, who’s trying to move away from bad work practice from other half-foots and clean the name up and whatnot. Mirach moved away from his home because the conditions sucked, even if that meant leaving his community, and he’s trying to carve himself a honest hardworking life. But he doesn’t bend over for others and try to make himself seem meek and friendly, and he does defend his community because, well, scarce ressources, it’s fight dirty or starve. I do think his goal would be to come back one day… Or maybe not. Ambush traps are something he’s done previously though, before he left. I loooove guide characters and it as a profession so I wanna make him like, be a good guide, and travel with groups or one on one with ppl like Nor

He’s on guard and snappy and doesn’t want to open up at all. I keep wanting to go "but he’s friendly deep down" but not really gdbdgdg he’s on guard all the way and his deepest wish would be to relax I think. But yeah like he’ll chat with people.

I sooo wonder what he’d think when meeting non-western kobolds. Like. "You didn’t have this experience growing up??… You don’t??? Get side eyes in cities??? What are you" I think it’d be a lil weird for him. Like 🧍‍♂️ how do I act now 

The corpse retriever party could travel to a dungeon that popped in the western continent and they could meet Mirach that way for fun oc interactions? I imagine he’d get a lot of jobs around dungeons, especially ones that just popped up or that appear further away from cities and paths. Could even be the one leading the party to the small caravan town that popped up around the new dungeon of some months or smth.

In his hometown they cut off the droopy part of their ears as a coming of age ritual for when they become warriors™️ Crossbow bc carabines don’t exist yet and long range is 100% what u need as a guide.
It’s a rite and show of status thing. Altho in his hometown prob not *everyone* has naturally droopy ears. Oh shit I am going down the slippery slope of that Kui comic about the bunny and mole people, maybe droopy ears kobold in his region are seen as the bottom of the hierachy and there’s some discrimination…… That thing where the tradition you do only enforce societal expectations and discrimnation 😔 A rite that once was about smth else more meaningful now being morphed into smth done for harmful reasons…