Bor Roman

**Bor Roman**, is a notorious khajiiti sellsail, smuggler, trader, and banker. He styled himself the Portmaster of Dawnstar and was eventually conceded the title by the Covenant.

## Appearance and Character

Bor is a broad khajiit and usually a friendly one, even when threatening others, with a streak of black humour. Some of the light-brown fur of the khajiit have gone white with age. According to the first mate of one of his ships, Asenath, Bor is neither ugly nor handsome, but has provocatively yellow eyes.

## Early History

### Early life

Bor Roman was born to a traveling khajiiti caravan, to a group of three other brothers and a single mother. His father had abandoned his mother after she had told him about the fourth cub on the way. Bor never knew his father and never wished to, as his mother filled both roles.

During the escalation of the northern rebellions that would eventually align as the Covenant, he was ambushed by a group of outlaws disguising themselves as soldiers of the Imperial Legion, surviving only by the whim of a cat whom he believed to be the Skooma Cat, whom he promised to honour and free Skyrim of the chains that restrained it.

### Portmaster of Dawnstar

In the following years, Bor became known to the different clans that composed what began to be known as the bandit horde, and used his expertise in alchemy to assist them, though never pulling limelight to himself. Bor traveled to distant places in Skyrim in name of the horde, extracting debts, blackmailing politicians and guard captains. He was soon conceded the role of Portmaster by the Lord of Trolhetta, which he used to begin his smuggling career. He began creating and growing his own narcotic crops, using the various bandit strongholds, such as Pinewatch, for his operations. After deposing the leader of Pinewatch through unceremonious combat, he established it as his central grow operation, further expanding to exotic alchemical ingredients.

Bor was solitary in the majority of his early path to power, with his only known associate being Athrein, who would, after the battle of Ragnvald, be given command of Markarth. Together they quickly became rich, sowing distrust among Imperial loyalists as the bandit horde metamorphosed into the Covenant and denouncing them to the warlords of Trolhetta. Bor would send a letter to Trolhetta informing of the existence of a loyalist and demand gold in order to hire a sellsword to remove them from power. The gold would always be given to Athrein, who would carry Bor's commands.

In 4E 223, Lord Xadhor Temperr announced a tourney would be held in Vahtacen. It is believed by some that the tourney was secretly arranged to facilitate a meeting between Kydonius Therin and Bor, to discuss a more profitable solution for Skyrim than the Covenant. The tournament was announced by Xadhor shortly after his son, Kazian Temperr, a close friend of Therin's, visited his father.

## Recent Events

### *The Covenant Wars: Legendarium*

#### *Stand of Solitude*

Together, Athrein and Bor travelled on assignment together for their most well-known endeavor: ransoming the son of the High Chancellor Callistus Therin, Kydonius, from the outlaw clans of Irkghntand. Athrein came from Trolhetta and informed Bor of this assignment and target, knowing that he would be able to bankroll the hefty amount the clans would demand in exchange for such a prominent figure. Going together, Bor spearheaded the deal while also establishing the surrounding mountains as a safe haven for his skooma mules. While riding to deliver Therin to Solitude, where they would meet the Bandit King, they were betrayed by the mercenaries of Whitebane, who freed Therin and secured him to Kazian Temperr for a higher ransom. Though he had failed in his operation, the consort of the Jarl of Riften granted him the titles to the lands of Dawnstar.

#### *Errand from Dawnstar*

Because of the growth of Whitebane's influence in both sides of the war, Bor is concerned about the leadership of the Covenant transferring the rights to the land of Dawnstar to Ayden Sactro, who covets it. To decide on the matter, the consort of the Jarl of Riften, Neo, decides to send both on the same errand, the fulfilment of the last prophecy foreseen by the Witch of the East. As they must sail to Morrowind through the Sea of Ghosts, Bor commands his bodyguard Er-Shei Rak'tee to use his ship, the Dublin, to transport them.

### *The Covenant Wars: Raze of the Bandit King*

Bor assembles at Dawnstar those who will go to Korvanjund and assemble to march down to Arcwind Point. Bor tries to convince Asenath not to go down to Korvanjund, fearing a bad outcome. He offers to allow her to stay in Dawnstar and operate in his growing business due to the war, but she refuses, claiming she will follow her captain where he goes.

When an envoy from Yngvild arrives at Dawnstar after the marriage of Bor’s godchild, he discovers that a stronger version of his moon sugar mixture has been leaked to the island north of Dawnstar and that Krirras has come to have seizures because of it. He reveals to Athrein that the seizures are not because Krirras used the essence, but because he stopped doing so, and becomes convinced to send crates of the essence to the Arcwind Point, to capitalise on its addictiveness.