A failed inventor turned vacuum salesman, Maurice was born in 1882 in Verona, New Jersey. His maternal grandfather was a 23rd-level Magister of the Bavarian Illuminati, and the Grandest High Poobah of the Newark Chapter. Maurice eventually decided that targeting only the super-wealthy for vacuum sales was a sucker’s game. And so he found himself in Goblintown, where he became an instant celebrity. One day, while showing off his cigarette lighter to a crowd of astonished goblins, a strange shard caught his eye…