Baqir

An incredibly charismatic yet physically intimidating mercenary, Baqir is the noble son of a merchant of magical wonders and a skilled slave trainer.

## Backstory

Born in the country of Kozek, Baqir is quite familiar with slavery. His mother is well known for her gift of grooming the more unwilling slaves into more profitable and manageable ones. His father is a rather humble man that owns a shop specializing in magic and historical artifacts. As a result of his parents' busy lives, the family slaves had been put in charge of much of his upbringing. Though his parents were still pretty engaged with their only child when they had the time.

As he became old enough to help with their jobs, both parents vied for Baqir to follow their respective career paths. Ranya would bring him along on some of the tamer or more routine trades and training sessions. When she was unable to take him along, Baqir would help Yusad around his shop. Baqir loved traveling with his mother but was mostly indifferent to her actual job. His father's job, however, interested him greatly. He just hated having to be confined to one place.

Once he was old enough, he struck out as a traveling mercenary, using combat skills learned from his mother and her brother. This brought him onto a few of the battlefields where he was hired by the Agorician army (due to his father being from a notable militant family in Agorice) to help fight back the Northern Armies. There, he ended up saving a soldier named Cajus whom later came to request to accompany him on his journeys as his bard. Baqir agreed, taking a quick liking to the amiable and interesting man with decent support in combat.

## Description

Tall, dark, and handsome. Lol. No but, he’s got medium-sized horns that curl back and do a little swirl. Can still kinda hide it under a ‘bandana’ for people that aren’t tiefling friendly. Also has a sorta spiky tail--think barbed devil. A bit uncomfortable to conceal his but harem pants and a coat/cloak usually do the trick. He’s got a dark blue chain tattoo starting as a scar over his right eye and down his body. New links may show up as time progresses. Speaking of eyes, they’re a dark red that may pass as a shade of brown at times. His hair is styled in a medium-length spiky ponytail.

### Personality

Baqir is a very open person at the moment, still out and exploring the world, the experience all his own. He likes to make friends and connections that will benefit him in the future, should he decide to start his business. However he also has a lot of pride and tries to stifle much of his wrath. He's been working on controlling that temper of his. League Zero has been a huge help with this. He enjoys the experience of working hard to achieve something. Without hard work, is it really worth it? It's all about experience for him.

He does not like to take the easy route if possible. He wants the route with the best experience and payout over what the level of difficulty is.

#### Morality

Baqir is 'fine' with just about everything but prefers a bit of order in contrast to outright chaos. General rule of thumb, "Is it good for business? If not, don't get caught!" He's not above getting his hands dirty, he rather enjoys it.

He is incredibly honest unless the truth will get him killed or worse. Even then, he usually prefers to bend the truth before resorting to outright lies.

## Relationships

Baqir has alienated himself since leaving his home country and may not be handling it very well, unfortunately. He's still young.

### Cajus

Formerly his bard. Unfortunately, once they arrived on Flouna, Cajus began to lose interest in Baqir, causing everyone to drift apart.

### Avarice

They got along surprisingly well due to their similar rough personality and interest in wealth and bitterness over what they considered to be unfair treatment.

## Trivia

* Like Sabah (and Cassandra), Baqir was from former campaigns and often worms his way into other campaigns.
* Ashley has a very detailed questionairre about his upbringing and development.
* He thrived in the Tamriel Campaign with that tabletop system.
* Baqir's scar and subsequent tattoo is a personal reminder to keep his temper.
* He really likes eating scorpions and drinking snake wine. He cannot handle spicy foods very well.