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The estranged singer-half of the split mantaur, guildmaster of the Stage Performance Guild, dreaming of reunion and revenge on Dong.
Porky is the left half of the mantaur Corcunda — cleaved by a stray Split Personality spell seasons ago — sealed in a snow-white latex containment suit that keeps his bisected body's guts in and recycles his water so he never eats. He has become the lonely NPC guildmaster of the hidden Stage Performance Guild, a dust-choked five-hundred-seat theater beneath the Lollipop, where Carl finds him prone onstage with his belly zipper jammed on a pinch of bulging intestine. Carl frees the zipper and hauls him up, earning free levels in his Razzmatazz skill.
A born impresario — 'any performance is 10% talent, 90% presence' — Porky preaches to a delighted Princess Donut that a great singer should leave the audience gasping as if their souls were made love to. He reveals crucial lore: when he split, his devotion to the war-god Grull fell away, so neither he nor Corky now worships any god; and the Lady Dominators — adherents of the war-goddess Enyo — drain and dominate his other half before every race. Learning Corky will die (and Porky with him) if nothing is done, he agrees to be smuggled out and reunited, on two conditions: a temporary-mercenary contract, and help beating the tar out of Dong Quixote, the stripper he blames for the whole mess.
His fury flares when he learns Dong is part of the rescue.
Precisely the left half of a hulking mantaur — one leg, stacked left arms, a head cleaved vertically down the middle — sealed in a taut snow-white latex suit zippered all over, organs visibly undulating against the fabric, a tattered scarf over the half-neck.
The singer-half of Corcunda and lonely guildmaster of the Stage Performance Guild, poised to be reunited with his other half.