Boris Karalov

"Man has long since lost itself to the throws of woes and worries. Too often you find a right, proper individual too entwined with existential quandaries such as "What is good?" and "What is my purpose in life?" Such a distressing image, isn't it? To see such potential go to waste in a mire of worry and anxiety?
Oh but if they could only just look past their nose, and see the joys of the world around them, and the plan laid out behind even that. Truly, not everyone can be so blessed as I." 
 - Boris, speaking to some barkeep who didn't ask. 
== The Boy ==
Little is known of this lawyer, freshly arrived to the City of Secrets. Not of his early days, anyway. 
If you asked Boris, he would tell you he lived a quiet life, as a quiet child, in some quiet manor in some obscure plot of earth in the heartland of Ustalav. A humble boy, a good boy, he would call himself. His mother was a saint, his father a diligent steward for some no-body noble. No brothers. No sisters. 
Odd, then, that such a humble existence would birth forth a doctored barrister of Cheliax. 
To that, he offers no explanation. The papers say enough. 
== The Man ==
thumb|301x301pxOf his life after his childhood, the rotund Ustalavite has much more to say. 
The Karalov describes his acceptance into the Academy of Law in Westcrown as a mix of a miracle, and the fulfillment of what was naturally right in the world. Ever humble, he knew his skill was more than sufficient, and was glad the world had seen his potential for what it was. 
How the people of the academy took note of a seemingly obscure lower noble half-way across the continent is a fact that is unenlightened by the lawyer beyond his praises of 'an old friend of the family's'.
Boris would tell of his time in the Academy with far greater mirth than anything else of his past, betraying an actual ounce of glee in the middle aged man's otherwise slow, methodical gravitas. A prodigy, he would call himself, and apparently so too did his instructors (and that 'old family friend'). 
Odd then, again, that his meteoric rise would not tie his fate to the lands of Cheliax. Indeed, once his days of sleepless study and soirees with Chelaxian diabolists were over and he had passed his bar exam with 'flying accolades', he would not stay in Westcrown. He would describe his flight to Absalom as 'divinely inspired, surly', as tales of unrest around the Westcrown region would soon follow his departure.
== The Lawyer ==
In the time presently, Boris spends his time either working with clients in his 'offices' (rented, albeit high end, inn rooms), or at the Chelaxian embassy. Either way, the man has no joy for this work, feeling an emptiness to his accomplishments. Surely there is a plan for all of it but... a mortal is flawed, and he can't help but wonder.