Tothar was a bastard child. Not that he was a bad kid, but his father came blustering into his mother's life, spent a few days and nights with her, and then vanished. In human terms of course, a one night stand on the Old World meant very little - they happened all the time especially in the lower ranks of Weyrs and Holds. But this was at a Guild, and his mother was one of the premier Journeymen that the mechanical studies chambers had ever held. And his father? Well, let's just say that Seka is his half-sister, and their father would in fact be furious with himself if he realized that there had been offspring with his whimsical pairing with the attractive woman. Tothar isn't all that good looking, in fact he's a bit silly with a goatee and eternal goofy grin. In his true form, however, those things are right at home.

Tothar made his mother proud, though, even before the move from the Old World to the new and their weird changes into animals. He was just as quick as she to learn the ins and outs of any mechanical device. He's a great repair artist, and between he and Riktah there are no mysteries on any ship - they've already taken it apart and put it back together just during a few days planetside.

His dragon is a black male named Zyworoteth. Zy doesn't see the whole point behind taking things apart anyway, why not make them to last? He's not really argumentative but he does sometimes challenge Tothar's ideas and provides a distraction when he's being stubborn.