Guthrie Marn
Human, Former mine foreman
Blunt, transactional, doesn't dress up requests for coin with excuses.
Payment for Silence, or Truth. He'll sell what he knows about the collapse to whoever pays more — the grieving families or the mine owner covering it up.
The Medicine He Needed. He wants help getting the ongoing medicine he needs for his injury, and is willing to trade information about the mine owner's negligence to get it.
Appearance
Heavyset frame gone slack with injury, walks with a permanent list to one side, face constantly tight with suppressed pain.
Secret
He ignored warnings about failing support beams because fixing them would have delayed a bonus payout he desperately needed for medicine — and the mine collapsed, killing four.
Quirks
Rubs his lower back compulsively mid-conversation
Names his price before you ask for help
Personality traits
Brutally honest about his own motives
Suppresses guilt with bitterness
Ideal
He'll admit what he did if the price is right — he's past pretending virtue matters more than survival.
Bond
The miners who died were men he'd worked beside for a decade before he ignored the support-beam reports.
Flaw
Chronic pain from the injury makes him irritable, impulsive, and quick to burn bridges for short-term coin.