EdwardPaine

Edward Paine is the Portmaster in Pirate's Rest, owned by the Broken Skull Pirates. He also was the previous Lord of Xuetlba, a failed mining/kelp town.

Biography:

 * Xuetlba: One of the flaws Edward Paine suffers from is his own ambition but lack of drive. Nothing exemplifies this aspect of his character better than the failed city of Xuetlba. Founded on a coastal badland after the discovery of an ancient mining site, Xuetlba was originally founded as a mining town after the discovery of large gold deposits. Edward Paine as Lord and, for a short time, only inhabitant of the city immediately began terraforming and developing artificial soil for farmland and for felling imported Acacia. Revelling in his own success, he soon forgot the fact that not only was the town founded on Ravenguard soil, the gold deposits were quickly being depleted. Three more came to live in the town, before all of them abandoned the settlement, leaving Edward alone in now worthless land. Edward Paine discredits the effort of his citizens and feels betrayed by them. Soon, he shut the city down, leaving signs around the premises to explain what the plans and buildings were for.
 * Broken Skull Pirates: Soon after Xuetlba was abandoned, Edward Paine continued to develop feelings of frustration with the limitations on his ambitions set by the overwhelming power of nations. He despised the organized religions which he now deemed a scam. Most of all, he developed hatred towards Ravenguard. He blames powers like Ravenguard for the lack of power he himself can actually obtain. Frustrated, he decided to try to join a group of bandits or pirates. At the same time, Tanner Orin and CarlCassel massacred many dogs during one of their raids. Seeing both the frustration from Dog worshippers and the general masses, he immediately set out to be recruited by the two into their pirate band. Edward Paine now felt that he didn't need to own a mighty civilization to be a great in history books, he just needed to make it into the books by any means.
 * The Bid War: The Bid War was a comedic war in which users Lemon, SirRasputin, Dark Drak and the "witch" (What they called themself) fought in the auction house over a single enchanted golden apple that Edward had put up for 200 starting price. The final price was over 70k, and Paine promised to write an epic story detailing protagonists, antagonists, and side characters based off of who the bidders were and how they behaved in chat. It is currently being written.

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