EarlGreyT3a

Overview
EarlGreyT3a is a pirate based on Eldham with an adventurous history from establish his own village, to fighting side by side with Barbossan brothers during the Valorant War, and later forming the new lands of Scurvy Shores.

Origins
Tea's journey begins with half his face in the sand the other half being bombarded with sea spray from the oncoming surf against the shore his body lay on. Using his hand to shield his eyes from its glaring head, he tried to recall what happened to him, but he couldn’t think of anything, not just about what happened, there was nothing. He couldn’t remember who he was. He peered around the area, taking in the shattered beams of wood and crates, one of which was cracked open with what looked like.. Tea? Maybe he was on a trading vessel and it crashed at sea? He turned towards the sea, there he saw a ship sailing towards the shore. The sails were deep black, with an orange shape in the middle.

The mark of the Kraken.

He must have passed out once more for between the dazzling light shining through the gaps of his fingers, shielding his eyes from the sun was the boots of men in front of him. The captain stood only three metres from him, surveying the wreckage. "So, who ar' ye?" The captain asked, with no response, "What's yer name damn it" The captain glanced over at the crate of tea spilled out behind him, The captain sniffed, "Where did ye come from tea man?" but before Tea could must the strength to speak the sweat from the sun and the heat took over and he drifted back into sleep.

When he awoke next it was not the same beaches as before but in a hammock in some home... no wait it looked to be an infirmary. He touched his head and felt the bandages wrapped around it and looked down to see most of his body was as well. No one came to check on him before he fell asleep once more, too weak to do much else. However, the next time he opened his eyes his gaze was met by that of the Captains. The captain then spoke and said, "Who ar' ye" but Tea could not answer him and simply shook his head. The captain recognised the look of confusing on his face and understood. With a simple nod he proclaimed, "ye were in a s'rry state when we found ye, lucky to have made it this farr." the captain then stood up and looked out the porthole of the room. "Well Tea, w'lcome to the Isle of Kraken's, ye new home and new crew." The captain looked at Tea once more, "Ye owe us boy for saving ye life from Jone's Lock'r, so rest up lad for ye work for me now." and with that the Captain left the room.

Dead Man's Cove
After washing ashore upon the beaches of Barbossa, Tea spent a majority of his time alone once recovering from the wounds inflicted by the shipwreck trying remember his past. In his isolation he would wonder the jungles and rivers in order to escape the hustle and bustle of the Isle. One day when slashing his way through the jungle he stumbled across and abandoned village under the shadow of Guaraka. It was quiet and somehow felt like home to the sailor. It was here that he decided to make rest in the abandoned fort above the hidden lagoon that laid beneath the buildings. Here he regained his strength and fortified his new home with any work he could find, buying cannons, timber and stone.

However, despite being alone in the jungle's hills, nearby lay the city of Urak the capital of Uraka. Tensions between the two nations had been growing since before Tea had arrived and he could see the unrest brewing and made ready his home for war. The fight which would be later know as the Valorant War would see the fort abandoned and the land taken over by Uraka as a result.

Valorant War
Barbossan through and through, Tea fought under the black flags of Barbossa against the Urakans despite only being part of the nation for a short time. During the war he was apart of the defence of the Isle of Kraken's in which a stray arrow caught his armour and knocked him off the battlements into the depths below. Upon seeing this no less than 3 Urakan soldiers plunged in after him, one of whom being the notorious warrior Beekay, a traitor of Barbossa. Outnumbered Tea swam away from the pursuing enemy into deeper waters into which he dived and blended into the kelp forest which allowed him outmanoeuvre and caused the opponents swords to become entwined and stuck. Eventually the soldiers having exhausted their resources decided to return to their army's attack on the Isle however when Tea returned to the surface the city was ablaze and the soldiers had reached the fortress. All seemed lost as the last of the pirates were slaughtered or were fleeing on their vessels. Tea pledged to Sarlican and Philly that he would destroy everything should Uraka succeed so he began swimming back to the fight. Hidden in the dock below lay a barrel of gunpowder which Tea grabbed as he snuck his way up the rocks towards the main throne room of the citadel. A hole had been blown through the stone of the walls and upon peering through, Tea could see the room full of Urakan soldiers, picking through the corpses of the pirates or barrels of belongings that had been stashed away. Tea threw the barrel of gunpowder into the room and before the soldiers could turn his way, drew his bow whilst lighting his arrow ablaze, the men looked at the barrel hurling towards them but could not stop the arrow that struck it nor the blast the decimated the room and sent the men flying and the treasure in the halls to Davey Jones' Locker.

Tea knew he had to escape whilst the soldiers were recovering and so clambered back down the rocks to the docks and hoped aboard a small boat. Rather than flee away from Barbossa and Uraka, Tea angled his sail and headed south towards Urak. All of Uraka's forces were in Barbossa so no one saw the small vessel enter the city nor the man who crept off it. Armed with an axe Tea's rampage began fuelled with the strength and rage of his fallen friends. He hacked down the civilians and looted their homes from door to door taking or destroying all he could. Tea finished looting LadyXade's home when he heard the shouts of the soldiers that had returned. Outnumbered once more he fled, but this time he had the advantage as once he escaped the whirling arrows that flew over his head through the streets of Urak, he was protected by the dense jungle and was able to return to Dead Man's Cove with the spoils of war. Here he waited and hid, drinking rum stolen from Urak until dark where he loaded his boat with his items and left the cove.

Scurvy Shores
On the boat with nothing but a few belongings, he travelled east away from Urakan influence to a place he'd heard of in the taverns of Barbossa and amongst pirate folk alike, "Scurvy Shores". A town of piracy and freedom, the last of its kind outside of Tortuga and Tea knew this was where he needed to go. Over many days and nights he travelled the coasts and rivers until finally the sands turned ashy and stone turned black, the Black Isles. Tea knew now he was in the Kraken's Fall Sea and at last he anchored off the sands of Scurvy Shores.