Taro is often asked about his strange name. He then launches into a long-winded story about his great-grandfather on his mother's side and her relationship with a Drow Dwarf. He is then interrupted by questions about there being no such thing as a 'Drow Dwarf.' Taro changes the subject to his shipwrecked adventure on the Fallen Sea Cape. When told that the Cape was not an island but a peninsula, Taro rants on about his latest musical composition, "The Black Mages of White Pine." About this time most people drift off...

Taro also has another problem: he is deadly. It seems that as a youth, he was once punished by a very unhappy mage after Taro had been caught breaking the neck of one of he's vassals just because lost a card game. The punishment was that Taro got stretched in the trees for about two weeks with some very squirrely friends until his mother finally found him and brought him back. Since that traumatic experience, he's arms hurt a bit from time to time but he never forgets he's ultimate goal to pay another visit to that wizard...