James Thomas Roth

Doctor James Thomas Roth is a medical doctor from New Lyeford who now makes his home in the trading post town of Tafosa on the Veldt. He is in Mafosaland to study local tropical diseases while providing medical services to people living in the region.
There is a sinister side to Doctor Roth. He is seeking to exact revenge on a colleague, Cuthbert Slighman, a professor of invertebrate biology in New Barlovia. Slighman published a book detailing certain diseases native to the Veldt. Roth owns a copy, and believes Slighman stole his research and findings, publishing an academic monograph without him, and reaping all critical acclaim. Roth plans to kill Slighman by sending him live samples of an insect known in Mafosaland as the Dalata Fly, or the more colorful "Deathwing". Through crossbreeding, and by painting its wings blue, he hopes his creation will intrigue Slighman long enough so that he will be bitten, causing his lingering death. In the meantime Roth is studying the fly, documenting the effects of its diseases on unwitting native patients of the Tarbete tribe, and deliberately killing some of them in the name of science.
Roth is an angry, middle-aged, balding man with round-rimmed glasses and a plump middle. Too much time spent alone in the wildernesses of the Veldt has led to paranoia. He keeps a journal of his schemes which, if read, would expose his evil undertaking and constitute sufficient grounds for his arrest. Those who challenge Roth find themselves pursued not by him, but by one of his fly crossbreeds. Since it takes many moths for the disease to kill, Roth will be patient in his endeavor.
Category:Inhabitants
Category:Inhabitants of Tafosa
Category:Inhabitants of Mafosaland
Category:Inhabitants of the Veldt
Category:Men
Category:Born in 1516
Category:Doctors