[size=150]Morlaer the repented pirate[/size]
Characteristics: Int -2, Per +1, Pre 0, Com -1, Str +3, Sta +1, Dex +2, Qik 0
Size: 0
Age: 26
Confidence: 0(0)
Decrepitude: 0
Warping Score: 0(0)
Virtues and Flaws: Covenfolk, Warrior, Tough, Fear (of magi), Missing Ear
Personality Traits: Afraid of magi +5, Brave +2, Angry +1
Reputations: None
Combat:
Dodge Init +0, Defense +3
Knife Init +0, Attack +7, Defense +4, Damage 5
Thrown Knife Init 0, Attack +7, Defense +4, Damage +5
Axe Init +1, Attack +12, Defense +6, Damage +9
Axe and Round Shield Init +1, Attack +12, Defense +8, Damage +9
Throwing Axe: Init 0, Attack +9, Defense +5, Damage +9
Hatchet: Init 0, Attack +10, Defense +5, Damage 7
Soak: +6
Fatigue Levels: OK, 0, –1, –3, –5, Unconscious
Wound Penalties: –1 (1–5), –3 (6–10), –5 (11–15), Incapacitated (16–20)
Abilities: Breton 5 (legends), Athletics 5 (rowing), Awareness 4 (in combat), Brawl 3 (knife), Brittany Lore 3 (coast), Carouse 5 (power drinking), Leadership 2 (intimidation), Profession: Sailor 1 (small boats), Single Weapon 5 (Axe), Stealth 1 (hiding), Thrown Weapon 4 (throwing axe)
Equipment: Axe, round shield, throwing axe, knife, reinforced leather jerkin, jug of spirits.
Encumbrance: 0 (3)
Morlaer was a pirate who had the misfortune to attempt to attack a ship carrying a magus from Fudarus. As he found himself in the water and facing death by drowning (he never learned to swim) he cried out, promising to serve the magus faithfully if he was saved. He has served as a grog of Fudarus since, and assigned to Pytheas as his shield grog. His unshakeable loyalty is entirely based on the fact that he is far more afraid of magi than he is of dying.
Morlaer isn't exactly a genius, but he is quite good at anything that requires plain old strength, from fighting to rowing...
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[size=150]Benarec the retired sailor[/size]
Characteristics: Int 0, Per 0 (down from +1), Pre -1(1), Com +2, Str +0, Sta 0 (down from +1), Dex +2(1), Qik -1 (down from 0)
Size: 0
Age: 47
Confidence: 0(0)
Decrepitude: 2(0)
Warping Score: 3(0)
Virtues and Flaws: Covenfolk, First Warping Flaw: Compulsion (playing pranks on magi), Second Warping Flaw: Lesser Malediction (cannot see people wearing mostly green or mostly purple)
Personality Traits: Loyal (Pytheas) +5, Prankster +2, Old Salt +3, Respectful -3
Reputations: None
Combat:
Dodge Init -1, Defense -1
Knife Init -1, Attack +3, Defense -1, Damage +2
Soak: 0
Fatigue Levels: OK, 0, –1, –3, –5, Unconscious
Wound Penalties: –1 (1–5), –3 (6–10), –5 (11–15), Incapacitated (16–20)
Abilities: Breton 5 (storytelling), French 4 (Norman), Low German 5 (Flemish), Athletics 4 (rowing), Awareness 2 (alertness), Bargain 3 (household supplies), Brittany Lore 3 (ports), Carouse 2 (drinking songs), Charm 3 (young women), Etiquette 1 (magi), Flanders Lore 2 (ports), Folk Ken 3 (magi), Guile 3 (remaining impassible), Intrigue 2 (gossip), Leadership 2 (ordering servants), Music 3 (singing), Normandy Lore 2 (ports), Order of Hermes Lore 2 (seaside covenants), Profession: Sailor 5 (small boats), Profession: Valet 5 (cleaning clothes), Stealth 3 (sneaking), Teaching 3 (servants)
Equipment: knife, clothes
Encumbrance: 0
Benarec was born the third son of a fisherman, but with no chance of inheriting his father's boat he signed on as a sailor instead. For 15 years he sailed up and down the English Channel and occasionally beyond, then a tempest shipwrecked him on Ushant. He was recruited by Fudarus to sail the small ship they keep to make supply trips from the mainland, and in between those trips acting as a valet for Fudarus' steward (a mundane with delusions of grandeur). As a servant to the servants, Benarec often ran into Pytheas, who as apprentice was often set by his master to the most menial tasks available. By then Benarec was already given to pulling practical pranks on the magi of Fudarus, and Pytheas aided him more than once (and ended up punished for them far more often than he actually took part). This created a link between the two.
Two days before Pytheas passed his Gauntlet, Benarec uttered aloud a fateful phrase : 'I wish all those feuding magi and both Primi just disappeared and all this silliness came to an end". When he woke up the following morning, they had (in truth he had fallen under a curse from all the magic he had been exposed to, and was merely unable to see them). The day after that he ran into Pytheas, who had just forced his parens to acknowledge him a full magus, switched his allegiance to Harpax, then changed into blue clothes. When he learned that Pytheas was leaving in a boat, Benarec offered to come with him 'so the young idiot wouldn't capsize in the first ten minutes'.