Balki Stigandr

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Balki Stigandr is a young adult from Strondholm who runs the Molten Core Shop/Inn

## Appearance

Balki's appearance is simple to say the least, he never saw the need to stand out among the villagers. He wears a light blue tunic under a coat for the cold, also over his shoulders he wears a cloak of animal furr, finally he uses a wool cap to cover his disheveled hair.

Physically Balki is 1.75 m (5.7 ft) tall and relatively slim. With a young face, he is not intimidating to look at, however, his large purple eyes stand out, expressing great determination that are hardly covered by his brown hair.

## Personality

At first, everyone who meets Balki perceives him as a boy who spends his time with his mind in the clouds, constantly distracted behind the counter of his store playing with whatever is at hand. However, that is because his interests are far from the monotony of the store, as soon as he leaves the place his attitude changes, becoming someone focused on everything that surrounds him, someone curious but at the same time cautious, someone who for every occasion has more than one devised plan to deal with it, someone who prefers to deal with his problems using his mind rather than his physical skills.

However intelligent he may be, Balki is very quick to panic once his plans don't go according to plan, letting out his inner cowardice, seeking to escape any danger at the first opportunity when he loses control of the situation.

## Backstory

Balki was born in Strondholm, with Vilid blood, his parents raised him without ever leaving the city, during his childhood and adolescence he never cared, he had a normal life, he learned everything he could from his parents while helping them run their store/inn, from his father learned to hunt, how to choose his prey and how to extract the best quality products, while from his mother he learned to negotiate, to see the value of all that product that they tried to sell and how to make a profit. However, as he grew older, he began to get bored of the monotony of the city and those artifacts that the merchants and explorers from distant lands who stayed in his inn showed him made him more eager to explore the lands beyond the borders of the city.

At the age of 20 Balki was preparing to leave the city and start a journey around the world, however his plans were interrupted by the sudden death of his parents due to illness. In such a way, Balki was forced to stay in the city to run the store, being trapped in his monotonous life, he has continued with his work alone for 5 years, however, he still has not lost the motivation to one day make that journey he planned and discover everything that the world harbors, especially what awaits in the lands of their ancestors the Vilid

## The Molten Core Inn/Shop

The Molten Core is a combination inn and shop located in the town of Trondholm that has been run by the Stigandr family for 3 generations. The place was opened by Thrand Stigandr when he immigrated to the town, originally it functioned solely as a store, which became recognized for the high quality minerals that were sold there, which had been brought from the Vilid lands. However, as time passed, the minerals that had made the store famous were depleted and with no one willing to make the dangerous journey to the Vilid lands to get more, Bram Stigandr, son of Thrand, had to change the focus of the store. store, beginning to sell different types of products, both as animal products for which he himself hunted, as products of street vendors that he would allow them to sell in his store for a percentage of the profit.

However, this was not enough to continue maintaining the store, so he had to renovate the entire business, expanding, remodeling part of it, and converting part of it into an inn. Operating as two types of establishments at the same time and with the help of his wife, he managed to revitalize the place, obtaining a new income from profits.

Today the Molten Core continues to operate now led by Bram's son, Balki Stigandr.