Captain of the frigate Thindrongol (The Hidden Reserve), Head of Acquisitions for the Sons of Bugman AEC guild-company. A duardin of questionable repute, Okbryn is an accomplished harpooner (and some say smuggler) who suffered a near-fatal throat wound in an Tzeentchian mantaray-rider ambush. His larynx was damaged, and the injury cost him his voice. He now speaks using a modified Proclamator Mask-hailer, which synthesises his voice using aethercomm technology.
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Stationed temporarily in Nassollotyl, the machinery of the Sons of Bugman AEC is focused on repaying the life-debt of their admiral to the Lady Beliana Fauncrest by aiding the battered free city in its reconstruction. As head of guild company Acquisitions, Captain Okbryn Whisperport and his frigate, Thindrongol (The Hidden Reserve), were on a far-ranging mission for scavenge and supplies for the city, chasing the skywhales and skysharks of Ghur, when they ran afoul one of the most undesirable occurrences a profit-minded duardin could encounter in the high airs: a Kharadron distress call.
Unfortunately obligated by the Code to drop everything and change course, the skyvessel entered the powder-keg of the Hungering Steppe to discover that the source of the beacon was a steadily descending krontanker, held barely aloft by a slowly leaking and mostly depleted storage of buoyant aethergold. With all hails unanswered, the crew of The Hidden Reserve boarded Brynzongor (The Golden Lion) to discover full caches of gear, supplies, and personal effects, but not a single one of the sizeable duardin crew needed to operate the massive vessel. The navigational charts showed the ship’s last recorded entry as reaching the Steppe several months ago.
Captain Okbryn vexed. To abandon The Golden Lion and its lessened albeit still valuable cargo would be a dereliction of the Code, but to claim it now – not that he could with the much leaner crew of a frigate – with the mystery of the missing crew unanswered would invite accusations of piracy, and Okbryn’s own reputation was tarnished enough to not survive the aspersions. As first-respondent to the distress call, it is his onerous duty to maintain the vessel and its profitable cargo until clearance can be secured to safely haul it home. Yet, such investigations beyond him, he was left with one recourse: to guard the krontanker until the Bugmansbur twins and their eye for the lost and mislaid arrived to study it.
In the meanwhile, profit must be made, and he will show the Steppe the determination of a duardin who must stay in the black.
