Name: Wesley “Wes” Balthier
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Country of Origin: Southernlands
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Appearance:

Wesley stands at 5’11”. His body is lithe and belies a strength earned from a life working on a ship at sea. Wes wears a hat and long coatwhen travelling.

Personality: Wesley is quick to laugh and generally brushed off all but the gravest of insults. He enjoys life's many pleasures and takes steps to ensure he has the opportunity; Even if it means avoiding something that risks his skin.

His jovial demeanor can change quick as lightning to a seriously focused and driven individual. This usually happens when Wes must accomplish a task. Be it adjusting a ships sail, or capturing an enemy vessel Wesley sees it through. And then returns to his charmingly roguish self.
Short Biography:
Wesley’s father was an officer in the Shaelean Navy when the country imploded. Homeless and alone the ship turned to piracy to survive. Wes’ mother was a passenger on a pillaged ship. Her hand was fought over until it finally belonged to Wesley’s father; And while she never loved her husband the couple did develop a mutual respect and of course Wesley.

Wesley grew up aboard several ships, until his father captained his own. Afterwards the Wolves’ Fang became Wes’ home. As he grew older the boy learned every plank of that ship and learned every job that worked it, save one. Anytime his father would close with another vessel Wesley and his mother would retreat to the Captain's cabin. During these times Wes’ mother would educate the youth in scholarly pursuits.

That is not to say that Wesley wasn't taught how to fight; In fact the boy was taught to use every weapon that could be found on the ship by his many “aunts and uncles.” The captain's son was simply protected from combat until he was ready. Once he was deemed ready Wes found himself quite adept at the pirates profession, to his father's pleasure.

Wes’ parents retired around their son's twenty fifth birthday. His father gave Wesley his flintlock pistol, his knife and the Fang and moved into Graelia. Unfortunately for Wesley, his ship became a target for pirate hunters. After three years of playing cat and mouse with a particularly angry pirate hunter the Wolves’ Fang fled inland; Wesley carefully using rivers and tributaries to move.

Sadly the Fang was lost far from the sea in a final fiery conflict with the pirate hunters. Those who survived went their separate ways; And Wesley, now a captain without a ship, was left to work his way back to the sea. One tavern, brothel, heist at a time.

Other: Wesley knows how to make gunpowder should he acquire the necessary ingredients.