Heroes: Balto, Gurgrock

Below are two more personalities who joined the group in the second session:

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Balto The Warrior-Scholar

Wise and hardy, Balto is a strange character. Hailing from distant lands to the south and east and a onetime resident of many parts, he is an enigmatic and incomprehensible Monk who believes himself to be isolated from the earthly world, after he defied his fate and survived a climactic struggle which was destined to consume him and which he never speaks of.

Both a slave to but also free of earthly addictions of drink and debt, he serves his own ends but also has shown a human side to fight for what leftover causes he comes across in his wanderings.

His mastery of his own body and mind, unarmed brawling techniques, and troves of esoteric knowledge is aided by the powers of the Opal Headband, which allows him to project his hearing at the cost of his engagement with his immediate surroundings.

Motivations: Increase personal understanding and knowledge; also pay off a few debts

Heroic Flaws: Already fulfilled his role in Fate and now lost without a purpose


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Gurgrock The Assassin

Half adolescent human, half full-grown Orc, Gurgrock is the product of the constraints of and liberation from unfair birth. As a youth in the rough-and-tumble docks of Poori he quickly grew strong and tough, abandoning hope for a better life and settling into the role of a hired thug. Conflicted between an essentially good heart, his sometimes-violent humanoid impulses, and society's prejudices, he often ends up on the wrong side of right.

He, like childhood friends Seppo and Nikko, is well-connected with less-savory types in Poori and is wise to the ways of the streets wherever he travels. He has worked as an alchemist's assistant, fence of purloined shipments, truncheon-wielding heavy, and even a tailor and costumer, along the way learning skills often useful as he plies his unwilling trade.

Motivations: Wants to be understood and prove his true inner humanity

Heroic Flaws: Victimized by forces beyond his control, both of society and the green blood in his veins