Kell Bailoch is a deadeye rifleman and former soldier who translated his skill for killing into a profitable business. This pragmatic gunman plies his trade with a calm professionalism derived from decades of experience and innumerable dead. For anyone who needs to plant a quick grave, his results are well worth his steep price.
For an assassin, the ability to slip through the cracks unnoticed is better than widespread notoriety, and Bailoch does not regret the fact that his face is forgettable. Those who have need of his services can find him, and he has enjoyed a steady supply of work since the explosion of conflict. War is a mercenary’s bread and butter, and Kell has lately eaten very well.
Bailoch has been a wanted Cygnaran criminal since the reign of Vinter Raelthorne IV, a status that has continued since the coup and rise of King Leto, and agents of Cryx are rumored to have offered a large bounty for his head. He is also—as far as he is aware—the last survivor of the expedition aboard the Ocean’s Mistress led by Head Inquisitor Dexter Sirac in 591 AR. It was in preparation for this ill-fated trip to recover the Witchfire from below Castle Moorcraig in Cryx that Kell received his signature rifle Silence, a mechanikally enhanced rifle magically muffled to make no sound when fired.
Even before his peculiar business arrangement with Cygnar’s head inquisitor, Bailoch enjoyed a colorful past. He began his career as a rifleman in the Cygnaran Army but did not enjoy the military lifestyle, having no stomach for the sycophantic posturing required to advance. He left the army and joined the now-infamous Black Talons, one of the few mercenary companies in recent memory to be discredited publicly and disbanded for their crimes. That this happened under the brutal tyrant Vinter IV is a testament to the severity of atrocities committed by this bloody-minded group of paid brigands.
Some former Black Talon mercenaries were able to evade imprisonment by bribing the right parties and keeping a low profile. Bailoch is still in touch with these men, several of whom have moved to Corvis and still provide him with information and job leads. Kell has spent considerable time in Five Fingers and has an ongoing arrangement with the Four Star Syndicate, but rumor has it one of the city’s powerful high captains has it in for him over an “incident” with a sniper.
Bailoch has a knack for disguises and an ability to blend into the shadows. He has impersonated priests, privateers, and military officers in the course of executing his missions. Kell’s victims hear and see nothing at the end, experiencing only a moment of dawning surprise and the brief sensation of a precisely targeted bullet.