Despite his ripe age and high rank, Swifty had been with The Golden Griffins only since the start of the Liturium War. Before that he was a smuggler for the Rossa Cartel, managing a very lucrative route between Belfrie and Leacianus. With the two nations he smuggled between at war with each other, his business dried up and it wasn't before long that the cartel tried to have him bumped off for no longer bringing in revenue to the organisation. Nimble and agile as he was, he was able to evade being cornered within the Cartel's den in Tradver City. Disposing of his two "garbagemen'' himself, he escaped through their den's latrine and into the city's canal system. Stowing away within a barrel on the first boat he could find, he sat for days until it docked at the end of the Tradver River within the city of Velandria.

Reeking of faeces and on the cusp of starvation, he set out for The Golden Griffins: sworn enemies of his ex-employer which still were locked within a cold war. Though Pride held no trust for Swifty at first, having lost his men to Rossa engagements in the past. Thus he gave the halfling suicidal tasks at every opportunity, though time and again he would complete the orders, surpassing Pride's ludicrous expectations. Eventually the grizzled veteran and the halfling developed an almost friend-like bond. Swifty now is the longest surviving subordinate of Pride’s, finding a way to consistently escape certain death.