Sviatobal

Sviatobal is a pirate, a vicious ruffian and a womanising lout, although to his followers he is a heroic and swashbuckling figure. He wears an armoured corselet and vambraces of red leather, fashioned to look like fish scales and wields a wickedly curved sword in his right hand, paired with a dagger in his left.

The Chief of the River Ruffians has long black hair tied in a tail at the nape of his neck. He has dark, deepest eyes and a furtive expression. He is constantly wary of danger or for an opportunity to gain some coin.

He and his men, a motley assortment of bowmen and brawlers, are from Dorwinion for the most part. A handful of renegade Northrons make up the remainder of the gang. Sviatobal has no love for the Easterlings who follow Andrag the Wolf and sees them as interfering with his business. It is rumoured that he pays the Lord Gaisemund of Buhr Naurthauja to turn a blind eye to his predations against river traffic.