Karrug Alluzar

**Karrug Alluzar** was a goblin rogue and criminal, best known for being the founder and first mayor of Alluzar.

Karrug was once the general supervisor for the Esterra National Mint in Bullion City, popular to both his fellow workers and his customers. Unbeknownst to them, however, Karrug was secretly using his status at the Mint to launder the money that came from his side business of running a criminal organization.

Before he became an employee of the newly formed Mint in 24AE, Karrug was a notorious assassin in the Black Market circles, working under a hobgoblin drug kingpin named Grangers. After years of serving Grangers as his personal bodyguard and hitman, Karrug suddenly slayed Grangers while he was sleeping, took all the platinum he could carry from Granger's stash, and fled.

Grangers' former henchmen were all too scared of Karrug's bloody skills to try to avenge Grangers; when Karrug offered them to work under him as a new organization, most of them readily agreed. After the ones who disagreed were killed slowly, Karrug and those remaining signed a pact with the slain's blood, forming the new criminal organization The Family.

The Family initially picked up where Grangers left off, dealing exotic drugs to western bay area users supplied by the Odessner pirates. However, when a different drug cartel by the name of the Bay Dusters snatched the exclusive rights to supply Odessner drugs to the western bay area, The Family looked toward a different drug to specialize for their own.

Karrug eventually got what he was looking for in a kenku named Drescoil, who created a drug that allowed the user to manipulate their physical body like a clay doll until the drug's effects wore off. This drug, named Drescoil after its inventor, was a major hit among the more affluent neighborhoods, and the great sudden influx of illegal drug money gave Karrug the idea to get employed at the Mint for money laundering.

Due to his superior stealth skills, meticulous planning, and extreme paranoia masked behind a sociable personality, Karrug was able to remain employed at the Mint for 20 years. Through this time, Karrug built good relationship with other criminal organizations by offering to launder their money through the Mint as well.

However, things started to unravel for Karrug when his henchmen discovered that Drescoil was trying to sell the secret recipe for the Drescoil drug to other criminal organizations behind his back. In an uncharacteristicly blind fury, Karrug murdered Drescoil with a brass knuckle. Later that same day during his shift at the Mint, Karrug got into a heated argument with a Jonurian Point elf businessman named Conrrik Bayfarm and ended up beating him to death in front of everyone at the Mint.  Karrug managed to escape the guards and the chaos that ensued, and with the help of his sizable henchmen, fled toward east Esterra.

Due to his good standing with various criminal organizations, Karrug was able to flee the authorities easily and settled in a secret hideout that he built near the Neverbottom Lake. There, Karrug decided that another good way to launder money was through gambling money, and thus proceeded to build a luxury casino overseeing the lake which he named the Lucky Duck Casino. He negotiated a deal with the criminal organization The Fog, which specialized in griffin training and mounting, to establish a service for any civilian in Esterra to hitch a griffin ride to the Lucky Duck Casino for a wildly discounted price, provided they spend a certain amount at the casino. This business model proved explosively popular, and soon, an entire town began forming naturally around the Casino. Karrug named the growing town Alluzar after himself, and officially declared himself mayor on 44AE. Using the chaos generated by the casino as a cover, Karrug also arranged for a yearly secret networking event of Esterra's most elite criminal organizations and guilds, which came to be called The Umbrage.

Karrug Alluzar died on the 30th day of the Seventh Block on 69AE by asphyxiation during the Alluzar Beer Flood of 69.