Balgrid
Squad mage of Borduke's marines in the Malaz 14th Army, an illusionist of Meanas whose knack for cheating light impressed even Bottle, with a little necromancy and healing besides.
An illusionist working the Meanas warren, Balgrid is squad mage to Borduke's 6th squad of Marines, 9th Company, 8th Legion of the Malaz 14th Army. He is heavy when the campaign begins and grows into a thick-chested man solid as a tree trunk. His trick of cheating light in all directions is good enough to impress Bottle, and he has some reach into necromancy by Hood's Path and healing by Denul besides. On guard duty in Aren, outside the 9th Company's improvised barracks, he disguises himself as a bale of hay when Pearl and Lostara Yil come by, and comes away satisfied that it worked; Pearl mentions afterward, to a puzzled Lostara, that there had been two guards at that gate. The road to Raraku treats him less kindly, and heat exhaustion nearly takes him before Lutes, the squad healer, gets to him.
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