Hmmm. If Baramos started in Waterdeep a decade ago...perhaps...<br/>Ok, so, here's an idea, Zaer! If we alter their timelines a little (so Arty left Skullport a year earlier and Baramos left a year later) we could have them leaving together? Arty would have been a malnourished waif of a thing with a purse full of stolen / gifted gold and a big fuck off sword that he barely knew how to wield. We could say that Baramos was the person Arty met in Waterdeep who he hired to get him out of the city and into the wider world? Since Arty left Skullport, which is beneath Waterdeep. Then they traveled together for a while - Baramos believing Arty to be a young girl (he would have looked barely middle teenage years at this point, since he was only a 20 year old Aasimar, which is for them still all but a baby xD ) the whole while. Then they got separated somehow, and Baramos moved on with his life, thinking "Eh, it's a shame, but I did my job" or something similar. They could then meet, like...six or seven years later (so about 2-ish years ago IC) and not recognise each other. For Arty, that part of his life is just the vague haze of an overwhelmed child, and for Baramos...well, it was a Tuesday. It's only after they've flirted and maybe even fucked that they recognise each other? Like...they get together for a night, then head their separate ways come morning to find that they've both signed up to the same Mercenary contact. Arty recognises something of Baramos's - maybe an old brooch he was wearing at the time - and Baramos recognises the big fuck off blade in Arty's hands and they're like "YOU!" xD<br/><br/>I mean, I'm just spitballing here, but would that SORT of thing be of interest to you? :D