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ArtistA square office with stone walls decorated in ancient Egyptian style except for one wall which has holds a large black tapestry with a blood-red pentagram stitched onto it. A side cabinet holds numerous papyrus scrolls covered in hieroglyphs. Crocknaton, an anthropomorphic alligator wearing ancient Egyptian-style clothing. Crocknaton sits cross-legged on the ground holding a writing tablet and a rush pen. A staff made of birchwood with a melanite garnet inset at the top lies next to him on the floor.
Born to a poor peasant family, Crocknaton lost his home when a loan shark repossessed his parents' small farm when he was seven. Crocknaton's father then tried to support the family by taking on odd jobs but the loss of his farm caused him to spiral into alcoholism. He died two years later in a drunken brawl at a tavern. After that, Crocknaton's mother had to support her seven children alone working as a washer-woman. She never had any time for her children who grew up neglected and half-wild. Crocknaton never forgave the loan shark and deep hatred rankled him. Early on, he became notorious for his fits of uncontrollable rage, followed by long periods of apparent calm. But everyone who knew him feared the calm more than his anger, since Crocknaton soon developed a habit of playing cruel tricks on people, usually for his own benefit. When he was twelve, a notorious neighborhood bully who had often teased and beaten Crocknaton, mysteriously died when his clothes caught fire. Since Crocknaton was seen by three different witnesses on the other side of the village when it happened, no one could link the deed to him. But the Archmage discovered that Crocknaton had filled the bully's favorite bowl with linseed oil and rigged it so that whoever took it from its shelf would inevitably break it and be covered in the oil. As it was particularly hot that summer, the linseed oil dried quickly on the bully's clothes. The resulting reaction caused the clothes to become highly flammable. Only two years later, the loan shark died under similarly mysterious circumstances. Crocknaton was recruited for the School of Death when he was nineteen by which time he had proven himself to be ruthless, cunning and resourceful.
Thankfully he is now firmly imprisoned in Crocodilia's most secure prison while his staff has been safely locked up in King Crockankhamun's treasury.
