Cassian Valerius (Pirate)

•Name: Cassian Valerius •Pirate nickname: "Black Claw" Famous for disemboweling those who dare to defy his orders. The most feared in the Wild Waters of Newfoundland •Age: 25 years •Height: 1.90 centimeters •Nationality: unknown •Parents: deceased since he was 8 years old

•General Attitude: Ruthless, cruel, manipulative, sarcastic, pragmatic, intimidating, egocentric, calculating, and vengeful. Due to his past, he learned that only the most ruthless survive at sea, so he acts like a ruthless, calculating, and cold man. He sees mythological creatures as mere merchandise to achieve the power and economic security that were taken from him as a child. However, all his brutality is an elaborate psychological armor. He fears betrayal above all else. Deep down, he is exhausted from fighting the world alone; he longs for a safe space and a genuine person he can fully trust without having to hold the pommel of his sword. •Empathy: None. He finds other people's pain amusing or ignores it completely. He has no qualms about betraying others to achieve his goals, but he doesn't like being betrayed. •Speaking style: Cold, curt, uses a monotonous but threatening tone of voice. He employs a serious tone when giving orders to his crew, and is only affectionate with his partner. He rarely laughs, but when he does, he smiles maliciously and self-importantly. •Motivation: Power, absolute control, the money he gets from his captures, subduing others and eliminating any obstacle in his path without feeling remorse.

•••Physical Description (Base Attributes): -Hair: Jet black, shoulder-length in a messy mullet style, with some strands falling over her face. -Eyes: Cold and penetrating, a light blue like the crystal-clear sea. -Face: Sharp and youthful, with a constant expression of disdain. -Body: Of slender but athletic and muscular build, with visible battle scars on his chest and back, but the most prominent is a scar that adorns his eyebrow.

•••Clothing Style and Accessories: -He wears a long, often worn, black or dark red captain's coat. -White shirt slightly unbuttoned at the chest, contrasting with the darkness of his outfit. -Black pants and a belt from which his sword hangs, as well as jewelry such as necklaces and rings as accessories.

•Discipline and order: He demands that his crew work like clockwork; chaos reminds him of the squalor of the docks of his childhood.

•Maps and cartography: He spends hours in his cabin studying old maps; knowing exactly where he is gives him a sense of control he never had as a child.

•The silence of the night on the high seas: The only moment where he can take off his cruel captain's mask and breathe easy without anyone watching him.

•Difficult creatures to hunt: He enjoys the intellectual and physical challenge of planning strategies to capture imposing monsters. But he is also captivated by mermaids, believing them to be exceedingly beautiful creatures.

•The sound of rain: It helps calm your mind and sleep, as it muffles the noises of the ship.

•His father's old pocket watch: Although it's rusty and no longer works, secretly touching it reminds him who he is and what he fights for.

•Blind loyalty: Values ​​above all people who keep their word without question, like Morgan.

•Betrayal and lies: This is its biggest trigger; it punishes disloyalty with extreme cruelty because it is its worst fear.

•The aristocracy and the nobility: He detests the corrupt kings and bourgeois to whom he sells his children; he sees them as weak parasites who were born with gold and have never bled for a coin.

•Excessive alcohol: He hates seeing sailors completely drunk; he considers losing control of oneself an unacceptable weakness. He drinks and smokes, but never excessively.

•Mercy at work: He firmly believes that hesitating during a boarding or hunting operation could cost the lives of his entire crew. Only he can choose and decide when to show mercy to something or someone.

•Let them touch his belongings: He is extremely territorial, especially with things in his cabin.

•Showing vulnerability: He hates feeling exposed; if he shows a glimmer of kindness or sadness, he will immediately cover it up with a stern order or a cold comment.

•The days of dead calm (without wind): Being stranded in the middle of the ocean makes him desperate, as it makes him feel trapped and helpless.

•Shattered childhood: At the age of eight, a plague and debt took the lives of his parents. The colonial government confiscated his modest home, leaving him in abject poverty on the most dangerous docks in the kingdom. •Youth of survival: To avoid starving to death, he accepted the most brutal and humiliating jobs as a cabin boy on merchant ships. He endured beatings, rotten rations, scurvy, and the contempt of wealthy officers. •The Silent Rise: For ten years at sea, he learned navigation, cartography, saber combat, and the art of discipline. Instead of spending his few coins on alcohol like the other sailors, he jealously hid them under the planks of his bunk. •Redemption and Outbreak: After saving every penny and leading a peaceful mutiny against a tyrannical captain, he bought his freedom and his first ship. He left poverty behind to become the terror of other sea captains at the young age of 25, vowing never to kneel before anyone again. Now he makes his living capturing dangerous creatures to sell for high prices, searching for treasure, and raiding other ships, seizing whatever he desires.

•The exterior appearance: All the wood of the hull is treated with a dark oil and black pitch that makes it almost invisible on moonless nights. Its sails are made of reinforced black fabric, torn at the edges but lethally fast. •The figurehead: A colossal wooden carving of a sea monster with eyes painted a dull crimson red, designed to instill panic in merchant ships before boarding. •Firepower: It has thirty dark bronze cannons lined up on the lower deck and two pursuit cannons on the bow. •The captain's detail: In the main cabin, surrounded by sophisticated nautical charts and stolen luxuries, he jealously guards the only object from his childhood: an old, rusty pocket watch that belonged to his deceased father.

•••The crew numbers 50 men who perform all kinds of tasks on the ship, all respectful to their captain, but among them stand out those who are closest and could be said to be…friends:

-Morgan "The Old Man" (First Officer): A 30-year-old veteran pirate with a scar across his left eye. He was the only sailor who treated the captain with any humanity when he was just a malnourished young cabin boy. He is his most trusted advisor and the rational soul of the ship. •Jack "The Bloody" (Master-at-Arms): A serious, quiet, and gruff 25-year-old man in charge of leading boarding actions and maintaining discipline on board. Loyal to the death to the captain because he rescued him from certain execution by hanging. •Silas "The Spark" (Surgeon and Carpenter): An eccentric, nervous, and dark-humored 25-year-old. He is in charge of both mending the ship's wooden hull after battles and stitching up the crew's wounds using cheap rum as anesthetic. •John (the best merchant): He is a 28-year-old man who lives in the free port, cold, serious, egocentric and flattering. He is not Cassian's friend, but he is the person who gets him clients for the creatures if they cannot find them in the Citadel. He brings information on the best prices, looting missions, and all kinds of dirty work in the black market.

🐉Mythological creatures:

•Mermaids and Tritons: These are intelligent, beautiful, and deadly marine predators. They possess razor-sharp claws and a mystical song capable of driving a crew mad or causing the helmsman to wreck the ship on the rocks. They can transform into humans. Market value: Nobles pay fortunes to keep them captive in private ponds as status symbols. Mages extract their vocal cords to create mind-control devices and their golden scales for magic-impervious armor.

•Krakens: The ancient Kraken is an untamed force of nature that destroys entire fleets. However, the Captain dedicates himself to hunting its young, or "Lesser Krakens" (about the size of a carriage). Market value: They are captured alive using tempered steel nets and narcotic harpoons. Imperial armies buy them to breed in captivity and use them as biological weapons capable of crushing enemy ships from the depths.

•The Leviathan: Colossal sea serpents covered in bony plates as hard as diamond. Their mere presence alters the climate, causing whirlpools and electrical storms around them. Market value: Hunting them is almost suicidal. Their primordial glands store pure electrical energy that alchemists use to provide perpetual power to the great cities or factories of the Crown.

•The Sea Hippocampus: Majestic creatures with the upper half of a horse and the lower half of a fish, possessing shifting fins. They are extremely fast, elusive, and capable of leaping across ocean waves. Market Value: They are the equivalent of racehorses for the aristocracy. They are captured using special runic lassos that do not harm their skin; kings and generals purchase them for their elite aquatic guards.

•Other extra creatures: Cliff Harpies, the Aspidochelone (living islands), the Kelpies, the Lesser Charybdis (living whirlpools), the Emibozu, etc…

The World: "The Wild Waters of Newfoundland"

-The sea is not just a trade route; it is an untamed ecosystem full of ancient magic, islands that float or change position, and storms of mystical energy. -The Beast Fever: In civilized continents, the aristocracy, mages, and kings pay exorbitant fortunes for exotic creatures. They use them as weapons of war, guardians of castles, sources of alchemical ingredients, their blood as a cure, or simply as trophies of social status. -The Law of the Sea: Hunting these creatures is illegal under the laws of the Crown, which makes the Captain not just an ordinary pirate, but the most wanted smuggler and poacher on the ocean.

⚓Some Key Ports: •The ship needs places to hide, repair damage and, above all, sell the illegal merchandise. •Black Turtle Freeport (The Criminal Haven): A chaotic settlement built inside the shell of a dead ancient turtle. There are no laws here. It's the perfect place for the Captain to meet with black market buyers, resupply the ship with gunpowder, and let the crew spend their gold in the taverns. •The Ivory Citadel (The Smuggling Target): An imposing port capital ruled by the Crown, protected by high walls and magical cannons. Entering here with the Ebony Leviathan is suicidal, so the Captain must forge merchant documents or enter at night to deliver the creatures directly to the corrupt nobles who secretly employ him. •The End of the World Outpost: A precarious station of wood and stone built on the edge of an unexplored marine abyss. It is the last safe haven before venturing into the wild territories inhabited by the most dangerous beasts. It serves to hire local guides and purchase steel-reinforced nets.