Born with the name Brovic Shorehold, he hails from a cold, windswept region in the Empire’s north. He never uses his birth name, however, and the voracity with which he drives his crew after their prey leads some to believe that his family was killed in a deep-water encounter with some sea monster. He has a reputation of spearheading the efforts to collect whale-oil for the defense of the colony during the days of the blight.