I like the idea of your humble Sylvanian Igor being like that last survivor of a Nehekharan excavation/tomb robbing that went south, able to prosper in the border princes because they already assume anything that can go wrong will go wrong as the capricious mother Earth torments them for daring to venture into her depths.
[] The County of Sylvania (Destiny)
[] Grave Robber, You stole gold from the dead-and lived to tell of it (Sylvania)
[] Rhya, the Earth Mother
[] Contract: your work took you to this perilous place and in time you found that it was either rule or die