Eric is the half-brother of Mangy who unlike his half-brother was overjoyed at the prospect of a halfling team forming. Mangy instead just turned a shade of grey and was heard muttering something about prefering to have a bill.

This family feud hasn't stopped Eric from practicing lobbing anybody who walks to close to him. However due to being dropped on his head as a baby, adolescent and occasionally as an adult Eric has a tendancy to forget everything that he was doing, hence the famous catchcall "Eric's Idle"