Loot Niptil

Loot Niptil was an amnesia-afflicted wizard with black hair, green eyes, and sharp cheekbones. He was a refugee of a planeswalker fight, summoned to do battle and then left behind when the planeswalkers were done. It was during this battle that Loot suffered a blow to his head and lost his memory.

He was still dazed and confused when Kyyrao, a khyyiani (or cat warrior), found him. Shinra, one of Kyyrao’s warriors, attacked Loot, thinking him simple prey. Loot easily fought him off. Kyyrao tried next but was easily put down. Loot remembers little of this combat, but afterwards, the cat warriors decided to take responsibility for him and nurse him back to health. Upon waking, Kyyrao took him for her mate.

He took the name Loot Niptil. Loot because he found it to be better than ‘precious’ (Kyyrao’s idea) and Niptil as a shortened form of Nippedtail.

At the Peregrinator Complex

Loot was involved in a short adventure to the Peregrinator Complex. He and his companions (Kyyrao, Nameless, and Corsen) were lured there by a Crookshank Kobold named Dreadfang. There was a powerful spell guarding a treasure trove. The warning was:

Wary must be he who steps yet closer

To this treasury filled with things of fame

Enter here and steal just one,

And Cursed will be all of your name!

Dreadfang sought a suit of armor that would heal his body but dared not take it. Loot, without a name, Dreadfang reasoned, should be immune to the curse. Loot did as he was told and retrieved the armor, he then began hurling coins and other treasures, hoping to distract the kobolds, but it did not work. Desperately, he took up a sword and attempted to strike Dreadfang with it. Instead, he slipped on a ruby and dropped the sword. Then he realized what had happened.

Because his name was ‘Loot’, the treasure was cursed. Understanding this, he challenged Dreadfang, claiming that he was an omnipotent planeswalker. Dreadfang did not believe it and attacked with the sword Loot had recently dropped. The looted sword, now cursed, turned on its user and impaled the kobold.

Afterwards, Loot claimed that the rest of the treasure was indeed trash, and not loot at all.

Source: What's in a Name? by Michael A. Stackpole from the Tapestries Anthology