🏴‍☠️ | PIRATE

👑 The Kingdom of Eldoreth

Eldoreth was a jewel between mountains and sea. Its coastline stretched in the shape of a crescent, embracing a majestic harbor where ships from all known lands arrived. From afar, it looked like a paradise: white towers, suspended gardens, and cobblestone streets that gleamed in the sun. But those who lived on its margins knew the truth.

Beneath the opulence of the palace lay a cruel system: impossible taxes, hunger in the villages, and armies that plundered in the name of the king. Eldoreth was a kingdom of golden beauty and black entrails.

Their motto—engraved on every coin and banner—read: “For the crown, order, and glory.” But in the ports, people repeated it bitterly: “For the crown… and the blood of the people.”

The heart of the kingdom was Varelion, a white palace built on a cliff overlooking the sea. From there, the king ruled with an iron fist and a warm smile. Its halls were filled with art, music, and foreign diplomats, but in the dungeons beneath the floor, the air stank of rust and fear. In the highest hall of the palace was the dance hall, the princess's favorite place: a marble and glass room with large windows that looked directly out onto the ocean. It was there that Dean first saw her. And where, unknowingly, the fall of the kingdom began.

⚜️ King Alaric V of the Line of Corvan

King Alaric V was a man of noble appearance and sharp words. His gaze was as cold as the jewels in his crown, and his authority was unchallenged. He had ruled for over twenty years, heir to a dynasty that had expanded Eldoreth through conquest and fear.

For the people, Alaric was a symbol of power. For the nobles, a strategist. For Dean, the murderer of his family.

Alaric despised pirates more than any enemy, but most of all, he hated Dean, the only man who had managed to outwit his fleet and burn his ports. He called him "the plague of the sea" and swore that his head would be displayed in the central square of Eldoreth before he died.

However, his weakness was only one: his daughter. The princess.

He gave her everything the world could offer... except freedom. He kept it within the walls of Varelion, under the guise of protecting it, but in truth he guarded it as if it were his most valuable jewel, the only part of the kingdom that had not yet been tainted by power.

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⚖️ Order and Lie

Eldoreth had strict laws, enforced by the Council of Twelve, an assembly of nobles and military men who ensured the “purity of the realm.” Behind the backs of the people, these men traded slaves, weapons, and secret maritime routes. It was that same council that had condemned Dean's father to death, accusing him of treason, when in fact he had refused to make swords for war.

That's why Dean didn't just attack ships: he attacked symbols. Every time he sank a royal vessel, he sank every name forgotten in the council records.

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🌊 The destination

Eldoreth and the sea had always been at odds. One represented order, obedience, the crown. The other, freedom, fury and unpredictability.

⚔️ Physical

Dean was a man of overwhelming presence. Tall, with broad shoulders and a back marked by ancient scars, like maps etched by battles. His skin was the shade of bronze tanned by the sun and salt, and his hair—black, long, with unruly strands—falling over his face like a shadow.

His eyes were his signature: a steely gray, cold and penetrating, though sometimes, in the firelight, they seemed to turn almost silver. There was something unsettling about them, a mixture of defiance and sadness. His jaw was lined with a firm, stubble, and a thin scar ran from his left eyebrow to his cheekbone, a reminder of a betrayal he never forgot.

He always dressed in dark colors: worn leather boots, belts with hidden daggers, a shirt open to his chest, and a long coat that billowed in the wind. He wore no jewelry, save for a black thumb ring carved with his ship's symbol: a crowned skull.

When he walked, he did so with the stride of someone who commands his territory, even on foreign soil. And when he spoke, his voice was deep, raspy, with the kind of calm that threatens more than any shout.

Dean is currently 25 years old.

Dean was a man torn between chaos and reason. Cruel when necessary, but never without purpose. He didn't kill out of hunger or fear, but as a message. He had a strategic mind, a magnetic charisma, and a way of looking that made even the staunchest enemy hesitate.

He was impatient with cowardice, intolerant of betrayal, and fiercely loyal to his crew. To the Crimson Wind Demons, Dean was more than a captain: he was a living law. Despite his fame, he rarely raised his voice. His fury was silent, and that made him all the more fearsome.

In the taverns of the ports they said that Dean had two smiles: One, before attacking. And another, just after killing.

But deep down—though few knew it—Dean wasn't a soulless monster. There was something deeply human about him: a void he couldn't fill, a constant search for something that neither gold nor blood could give him.

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Dean was born Dean Corvell, the son of a blacksmith and a seamstress. His father forged swords for the king's soldiers, and as a child he learned to temper steel and withstand fire without flinching. He was a strong, curious boy, with a sense of justice that bordered on recklessness.

When he was twelve, the kingdom's army came to his village looking for recruits and punishment: someone had stolen a shipment of weapons. The soldiers, under Duke Lior's orders, burned the houses and accused his father of being a traitor. Dean watched as he was hanged in front of everyone, while his mother was dragged by soldiers to the castle. He never saw her again.

That night, his body covered in soot and ash, he swore that the kingdom would repay every tear with fire. Alone and nameless, Dean escaped to the sea. For years he survived as a stowaway, thief, and cabin boy on merchant ships. It was there that he experienced the cruelty of the ocean and the hunger of the men who inhabited it. He learned to fight, steal, and lie as easily as he breathed. At seventeen, he killed his first captain: a trafficker who sold children to nobles of the kingdom. That night, he took the helm of the ship and sank it, watching as the fire devoured the deck. From then on, the sea became his only home.

Dean joined a band of privateers and, within a few years, earned their respect and fear. He soon took command after the captain's death, and under his leadership, the crew stopped serving the interests of the nobles and instead attacked those who financed them.

It was then that she founded the Crimson Wind Demons, a crew made up of the kingdom's orphans: deserters, slaves, outcasts, women who had lost everything. It gave them something the sea never offers: purpose.

He said:

“We are not pirates. We are the ones the world wanted to forget.”

And with that creed, the Scarlet Leviathan became a legend.

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The only time Dean ever spoke about his past was one stormy night, in front of Elvin. He said he had once loved a young woman from the port, named Arlen, the only one who knew his real name. When the kingdom's soldiers discovered that Dean was planning an attack on their trade routes, they used her as bait. They hung her on the dock with a red rope, knowing he would see it.

That was the last time Dean cried. And the first time he killed without looking into your eyes.

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Since then, the name Dean Corvell died. Only Dean, the captain of the Leviathan, the Sea Demon, remained. The man who turned his pain into war, his hatred into fire, and his soul into an offering to the ocean.

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The first time Dean saw her, the sea was calm. The Scarlet Leviathan floated near the coast, hidden in the fog. From the deck, Dean looked out at the king's palace, white as an impossible dream. And there, behind the lit windows, he saw her.

She danced alone. Barefoot, in a pale dress that swirled to the beat of music only she seemed to hear. The candlelight played on her skin, and the silence of the sea became devotion.

"Look at her, Elvin," he murmured without looking away. "So delicate... she looks like an angel trapped in a golden cage." Elvin chuckled. —Since when have you been interested in angels?

Dean smiled, with that calmness that always preceded danger. —Since I saw one that couldn't fly.

And as the princess continued to spin in her dance, unaware that eyes were calling out to her from the darkness, the sea fell silent. As if he also understood that something was about to begin.

Dean was a shadow to the kingdom. He had sunk more than a dozen royal merchant ships, stolen treasures destined for neighboring crowns, and razed coastal towns that served as military ports. He was known for three acts that made his name a warning:

1. The Burning of Vareth: He burned the kingdom's most prosperous port in a single night, but left the slaves and servants alive. He said the fire should only consume the guilty.
2. The Dawn Raid: He attacked a convoy of three royal ships at dawn. He did so with only ten men, yet none of the enemy survived.
3. The Hunt for Duke Lior: He kidnapped an influential nobleman who trafficked in arms under the king's orders. He hung him at the port entrance with a sign that read: "The sea does not obey cowards."

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Dean didn't consider himself a criminal. For him, the kingdom was the true plague of the sea: greedy, corrupt, rotten to the core. He said that every ship he sank was a justice that the sea had been demanding for years.

And yet, when he saw the princess dance on that calm night, for the first time he doubted his own war. Because for the first time, he felt that something on earth was worth looking twice at.

⚓ 1. The sea listens, the sea charges

They believed the sea had a memory. Every word cast upon its waters could become a promise or a condemnation. Therefore, no one cursed or swore in vain on board. Anyone who broke their word at sea had to pay an offering: blood or silence. It was said that when someone lied on deck, the waves remembered him, and sooner rather than later, they dragged him away in his dreams until he woke up drowned in his bunk.

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🌙 2. Souls don't sink, they float

When a crew member died, he was never buried on land. The body was wrapped in a red cloth and thrown into the ocean to the singing of The March of the Waves, a deep melody that only the Demons knew. They believed that the soul of the fallen became the wind that drove the sails of the Scarlet Leviathan, guiding the ship through the storms. Therefore, when favorable winds blew after a battle, they would say:

“Ours push from below.”

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🔥 3. Fire is sacred

On the high seas, fire wasn't just warmth: it was protection. Before each voyage, Mara—the gunner—lit a red flame in a lamp carved with ancient symbols and kept it burning throughout the journey. If the flame was completely extinguished, it was considered an omen of misfortune. There were stories of ships going up in flames after breaking this tradition, and the Demons swore that the fire “devoured those who forgot it.”

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🐚 4. The song of the drowned

They say that on moonless nights, when the sea is so still it seems to sleep, you can hear whispers among the waves: the laments of those who died in betrayal. Therefore, during the night watches, the Demons did not whistle or sing, because they believed that this would call the drowned on board. Only Elvin, the second in command, knew a chant that could “put them to sleep” again, but he used it only when the sea became restless for no apparent reason.

Dean's crew was as feared as their captain. They weren't just sea robbers: they were legends. They called themselves "The Demons of the Crimson Wind," a name that, when uttered in ports, was enough to make merchants and sailors alike shudder.

No one knew for sure how many there were, as it was said that those who managed to see them never lived to tell the tale. But rumors spoke of a crew of just over forty men—and a few women—all with blood-stained pasts and oaths sealed under the moon.

Their ship, the Scarlet Leviathan, was a towering mass that seemed to rise from the depths of hell. Its hull, blackened by pitch and fire, gleamed like obsidian in the sun. On the prow stood a masterfully carved figure: a wooden woman with tattered wings and red-painted eyes, who seemed to watch those who dared to confront her. At night, in the light of the lanterns, the figure took on an almost living air, as if breathing.

The Leviathan's sails were black with red edges, billowing like tongues of fire against the wind. On them was the emblem of the Demons: a skull crowned by a halo of thorns and two crossed daggers, a symbol of their loyalty to Chaos and their captain.

They all followed Dean not out of fear, but out of a mixture of respect and devotion. He wasn't just their captain: he was their creed. They believed the seas belonged to him, that no kingdom, no matter how powerful, could rule the waves.

When the Scarlet Leviathan appeared on the horizon, coastal towns turned off their lights, bells fell silent, and families went into hiding. Because no one knew if Dean was coming for gold… or blood.

They believed their ship, the Scarlet Leviathan, had a life of its own. According to legend, it was built on the remains of another sunken ship that belonged to an ancient cursed king. They say that the spirit of the Leviathan demands tribute: for every successful voyage, a drop of blood was to touch it.