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Ubicaciones, specialties, and some other notes about every recruitable character in the game. Some details WIP. If you find any inaccuracies or missing information like an equipment bonus please let me know.

Asia

Personaje: Abdullah
Recruitment: Muscat after beating the game as him.
Especialidades:
Skilled Fighter – Increased exp gain from battles
Ship Seizing Tactics – Ability to recruit ships that have surrendered
Botín – Increases supply gained when plundering ships
Idiomas – árabe

Personaje: Aji
Recruitment: Rose banner questline (triggered by a Garaba event in Malacca?)
Especialidades:
Southeast Asian Climate – Increases trade profits and contribution in the central south peninsula cultural sphere
Together as One – Increases sailor max morale
Hand-to-Hand Tactics – Inflicts enemy ships with water leakage after hand-to-hand combat
Extra Equipment Bonus:
Bocina – +1 brawling +1 música
Idiomas: Khmer / Siamese

Personaje: Garaba
Recruitment: Picked up in a stowaway event seemingly somewhere in Southeast Asia (would like more detail if possible)
Especialidades:
Java Climate – Increases trade profits and contribution in Southeast Asian cultural sphere
Pick the Lock – Chests can be opened immediately
Hidden Cargos – Ship cabins can hold +10 elementos
Idiomas: Indonesia / Khmer / Chino

Personaje: Hiyar O’Worley
Recruitment: Pick up in (aleatorio?) puerto
Especialidades:
Arabic Climate – Increases trade profits and contribution in the Arabic and East African cultural spheres
Doctor’s Kindness – Restores sailor morale after battle
Desert Traveler – Reduces supply consumption on Gobi terrain
Extra Equipment Bonus:
Glass Reagent Case – Medicamento +2; Organización +1
Idiomas: árabe

Personaje: Katelyn
Recruitment: Requires Sassi Palmis. Look for a fleet called the Pirate Queen’s Fleet in the Red Sea and defeat it. After finding the five treasures, find her just north of Toamasina.
Especialidades:
Pirate Star – Reduces exp required for upgrades
Rapid-Fire Cannon Expertise – Increased damage, exactitud, and penetration of Rapid-Fire Cannons
Idiomas: Español

Personaje: Lu Liyuan
Recruitment – Must find random event in a port first (not sure if the port is random?). Entonces, travel to Istanbul to see another event, and find him in the Western Turkey expedition (skill requirement?)
Especialidades:
Ming Empire Climate – Increases trade profits and contribution in the Ming Empire and Korean cultural spheres
Mountain Traveler – Reduce supply consumption on hills or swamp
Stone Identification – Increases trade profit of gemstones
Idiomas – Chino

Personaje: Nasser
Recruitment: Rose banner questline (started by Garaba event in Malacca?)
Especialidades:
Experto – Increase sailor max morale
Confusion Tactics – Inflicts confusion after hand-to-hand combat
Business Adept – Increases trade profits and contribution in the Persian cultural sphere
Extra Equipment Bonus:
Dados – +1 negotiation +2 firearm
Idiomas: árabe

Personaje: Sassi Palmis
Recruitment: Complete the Holi questline in Calicut and attend the festival (requires completing Kanam’s questline?)
Especialidades:
Indian Climate – Increases trade profits and contribution in Indian cultural sphere
Dancing Grace – Increases sailor morale cap
Idiomas: Hindustani / Sanskrit

Personaje: Shen Shi
Recruitment: Pick up from the oceans around China in a random event
Especialidades:
Explorar – Reduce stamina loss during expeditions
[Desconocido]
Idiomas: Chino

Personaje: Takigawa Amagai
Recruitment: Meet in Nagasaki tavern and then learn about Moro-haku sake (Sakai I think?). Rescue from pirates.
Especialidades:
Japanese Climate – Increases trade profits and contribution in the Japanese cultural sphere
ronin – When hp reaches 0 in duel, restaurar 1 hp and unleash an ultimate
Provocation – If both sides have morale after hand-to-hand combat, challenge the enemy to a duel
Extra Equipment Bonus:
Delicate Katana – +2 brawling
Idiomas: japonés

Personaje: Yoshitaka Shizuma
Recruitment: Nagasaki after beating the game as them
Especialidades:
Prestigious Shipbuilder – Grant exp when shipbuilding
Cats at Hand – protects fleet from rats
Craftsmanship Knowledge – Increase trade profit of industrial goods
Nature Surpassing – Can freely modify ship cabins
Idiomas: japonés

Personaje: Yun Mu
Recruitment: Zhangzhou after beating the game as her
Especialidades:
Erudito – increased EXP gain from discoveries
Analogist – Decreases requirements for interpreting books
Picky Shopping – Increases profits of goods based on amount of knowledge accumulated for them
Idiomas: portugués / Chino

África

Personaje: Beluget
Recluta: After learning about the Minos fleet in west Africa, find and defeat the fleet. They will not attack you, you must attack them. Entonces, find Beluget in Cape Verde.
Especialidades:
Has one specialty that does nothing. (Quest upgrade?)
Idiomas: Swahili / Español

Personaje: Kornelly
Recruitment: Event and expedition in Toamasina
Especialidades:
Wilderness Resident – Reduce supply consumption in forest
Way of Preservation – Increase fish gained from fishing and trade profit on fish
Idiomas: Hausa

Europa

Personaje: Anastasia
Recruitment: Complete an event in the Western Turkey expedition landing and then recruit along with Mustafa Amir in Beirut.
Especialidades:
Eastern European Climate – Increases trade profits and contribution in the Balkan cultural sphere
Hilandero – Increases profits of textile goods
Neat Cargos – Ship cabins can hold +10 elementos
Idiomas: Slavic

Personaje: Andrea
Recruitment: Bring black pepper to Calais and recruit in the tavern
Especialidades:
French Climate: Increases trade profits and contribution in French cultural sphere
Spice Expert – Increased profit from food and spice goods
[Desconocido]
Idiomas: Francés

Personaje: Andreas Heinrich
Recruitment: See event in Pisa and then find event in Naples expedition
Especialidades:
Nordic Climate – Increases trade profits and contribution in the Northern European cultural sphere
Marzo – Reduces supply consumption
Strong Willed – Protects fleet from hallucination
Extra Equipment Bonus:
Knight’s Longsword – +50CV +1 brawling
Idiomas: Alemán

Personaje: Andrés
Recruitment: After beating the game as Andrew, recruit at the Lisbon pier.
Especialidades:
Adventurous Spirit – Increases EXP gained from sailing
Innate Leader – Reduces EXP required to level up character who are below Andrew’s level
Route Pathfinder – Discovering new ports grants +100 local contribution
Extra Equipment Bonus:
Brújula – +2 leadership +1 geography
Idiomas: portugués

Personaje: Beatriz
Recruitment: Tulip quest line in Amsterdam, start by going to Amsterdam in November
Especialidades:
Craftmanship – Increases trade profit of artware
Lowland Climate – Increases trade profit and contribution in Dutch cultural sphere
Extra Equipment Bonus:
Tulip brooch – +3 organization
Idiomas: Dutch

Personaje: Carlos Cortez
Recruitment: In Seville after recruiting Blackbeard (and possibly Costello?).
Especialidades:
Spanish Nobility – Increases trade profit and contribution in Iberian cultural sphere
Cannon Expertise – Increases damage, exactitud, and penetration of cannons
[Desconocido]
Idiomas: Español

Personaje: Costello Hermann
Recruitment: Mónica (Seville Barmaid) línea de misiones
Especialidades:
Seasoned Pirate – Increased chance of inflicting abnormal status with cannons
Alborotador – Inflicts enemy ship with burning after hand-to-hand combat
Master of Love – Unlocks sweet talk interaction with barmaids. Random chance for either +50 o -20 favorability.
Idiomas: Español

Personaje: Daniel Crete
Recruitment: See event in Trieste then travel a few times between Venice and Trieste. Eventually rescue from pirates.
Especialidades:
Surgery – Recovers a portion of dead sailors after battle
Médico de la plaga – Protects from plague while sailing
Pharmacological Mastery – increases profits from trading medicine
Idiomas: italiano

Personaje: Dietlind
Recruitment: Starts with the quest in Benghazi from the merchant. You then meet her in the tavern at Hamburg. Después, find the deed to a ship from Lübeck and order a ship at the shipyard there. After a pirate encounter outside the port, she joins.
Especialidades:
German Climate: Increases trade profit and contribution in German cultural sphere
Francotirador – Increased damage in boarding attacks
Extra Equipment Bonus:
Daybreak – +30 CV +1 firearm
Idiomas: Alemán / Slavic

Personaje: Esmeralda
Recruitment: Find in Marseilles and then Palma (Requires Daniel I think)
Especialidades:
Thought Reader – Interpret news topic that barmaids are interested in
Caravan – Increases expedition load (seems to double)
Romani Traditions – Increases profit of trading hobby goods
Idiomas: Francés / Slavic / Greek

Personaje: Enrique
Recruitment – Recruit Blackbeard and then find in London
Especialidades:
Remote Combat – Increases damage, exactitud, and penetration of long-barreled cannons
Briber – Increases max sailor morale
Idiomas: Inglés

Personaje: Joyce de Fritz
Recruitment: Recruit in Amsterdam
Especialidades:
Precise Routing – Increase Fleet auto-sail speed
Mathematics – Increase fleet artillery accuracy
Orange Addict – Protects the fleet from scurvy
Extra Equipment Bonus:
Sextante – +1 mapping +1 geography
Idiomas: Dutch / Portugeuese / Alemán

Personaje: Loris Falaise
Recruitment: Purchase his songbook in the London item shop and then recruit in the London tavern
Especialidades:
Italian Climate – Increases trade profits and contribution in Italian cultural sphere
Oenology – Increases alcohol trade profits
Bardo – Increases contribution gain
Extra Equipment Bonus:
Gone with the Wind – +1 música +1 tesoro
Idiomas: italiano

Personaje: Maltim Almeida Blanca
Recruitment: Travel to Genoa and speak to him in the tavern. Entonces, discover Ras ben Sakka (is this Andrew only?)
Especialidades:
Seasoned Officer – Increases negotiation success rate with NPCs
Climate Conqueror – Drastically reduces hull damage in storms
Supply Utilization – Reduces consumption of supplies while sailing
Idiomas: portugués

Personaje: Mustafa Amir
Recruitment: Complete an event in the Western Turkey expedition landing and then recruit along with Anastasia in Beirut.
Especialidades:
Turkish Nobility – Increases trade profits and contribution in the Turkish and North African cultural spheres
Treasure Appraisal – Adds a chance to obtain precious items when trading
Fire Cannon Expertise – Increases damage, exactitud, and penetration ability of fire cannons
Idiomas: turco

Personaje: William Ansel
Recruitment: Pick up in London and take him to Ceuta to recruit.
Especialidades:
British Climate – Increases trade profits and contribution in British cultural sphere
Sketch – Increases rewards and contribution from reporting discoveries
Journey of Odysseus – No longer become out of control in storms
Extra Equipment Bonus:
Scholar Flat Cap – +1 geography +1 humanities +1 biology
Idiomas: Inglés / Latin / Greek / portugués / Español

Personaje: Yuskin
Recruitment: Tulip quest line in Amsterdam (go to Amsterdam in November to start) After recruiting Beatrice, go to Venice.
Especialidades:
Penny Pinching – Reduce fleet supply and sailor wage costs
Merchant of Venice – increased experience and profits from trading specialties
Business Craft – increased rewards from completing business contracts
Idiomas: italiano / Dutch

Americas

Personaje: Blackbeard
Recruitment: Finish his questline in Nassau
Especialidades:
Coercion – Adds chance to cause confusion when battles take place
Reign of Terror – Provides protection from confusion
Tyrannical – Can recruit surrendered small and medium ships
[Desconocido]
Idiomas: Inglés

Personaje: Jaca
Recruitment: Nassau tavern after recruiting Blackbeard
Especialidades:
Caribbean Climate – Increases trade profits and contribution in the Caribbean cultural sphere
Boarding Tactics – Allows hand-to-hand combat immediately when a ram collides with an enemy ship
Fearless Charge – Increases ram damage
Extra Equipment Bonus:
Eagle Warrior Armor – +1 leadership +1 brawling
Idiomas: Indian / Español

Personaje: Marma Cora
Recruitment: Wolf child clue in Veracruz
Especialidades:
Inca Climate – Increases trade profits and contribution in the Central and South American and West Coast American cultural spheres
Instincts – Increase Field of View in expeditions
Idiomas: Indian