I'm trying to figure out which word best fits your asterisks. The problem is, I can think of too many that work with the phrase. :/ Did you die in Xorbb?
Did you know the nursery rhyme, "Ring around the Rosie" was actually a poetic story about the Bubonic Plague? Some historians dispute it. However, I don't consider a "folk-lorist" to be a real job title, and I will ignore their thoughts and substitute my own.
That was one possibility, but I could think of a good dozen others, particularly for Gragas, whom I dubbed "Speedbump."