Grankton

Master Grankton is the headmaster of Driftwood Asylum for Boys, the orphanage in Port Damali where Fjord was raised.

Description
Grankton is a human man with black hair. He was apparently about middle-aged from about 816 PD to 822 PD.

He believed the only things that mattered were strength and money (which he considered a form of strength), and he was not concerned that he was hated. He felt that physical force and overt intimidation were the most effective forms of strength. Vandran generally believed that Grankton "is, and always has been, a fool" for this.

Grankton saw the children of the orphanage merely as tools for profit and was willing to risk their lives in that pursuit. He told the children that he had "salvaged" them and gave them purpose where he claimed they otherwise would forever have none. He also gave them disparaging surnames to remind them why they were at the orphanage.

Biography
Grankton was the headmaster of the Driftwood Asylum for Boys, an orphanage in Port Damali. He was apparently headmaster since before about 805 PD, when Fjord arrived there. He put the children to work creating wooden goods for sale with enforced daily quotas, and he sent the children on dangerous dives to salvage ships that were capsized or wrecked around Port Damali. These dives were among the few opportunities where he allowed the children to leave the workshop. Grankton belittled particularly Fjord for his half-orcish heritage, believing him to be "dumb" and "useless".

Over the years, the salvage dives became increasingly dangerous as Grankton took more risks with the boys' lives in search of profit. Fjord also noted that "shady people" began coming through the building and heard rumors that Grankton was striking deals with various criminal organizations, including members of The Myriad. Travis Willingham, Fjord's player, additionally suggested that criminal elements in the Clovis Concord were also involved, and Grankton additionally had deals with the black market. Boys were sent on what Fjord suspected to be smuggling runs; some never returned. Otherwise, life at Driftwood Asylum remained unchanged.

Around 822 PD, Grankton allowed Captain Vandran to visit the orphanage to solicit deckhands for the Tide's Breath. Only Fjord and Sabian took the offer.

At some point after Sydenstar 836 PD, Fjord and Jester Lavorre unseated Grankton and his associates at the orphanage. The orphanage was rid of its criminal ties and black market deals, and conditions there were cleaned up. It is not known what precisely happened to Grankton.