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
His eyes fluttered open, he sat up and instantly regretted it, his head suddenly felt like it was about to tear in two. He squinted up into the sun, using his hand to shield his eyes from its glaring heat. Where am I? His mind in turmoil, his body felt baked from the sun rays. 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 tried to stand up, but fell almost instantly. His legs felt like jelly, he decided to sit for a while and let himself recover. Suddenly he felt an intense tugging on the back of his head, almost like someone had reached into his skull, gripped his brain and pulled. He turned towards the sea, his mind-numbing pain forgotten, 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. 'Five in all, I can take three at the most before they get me'. He shook his head in frustration, then realised that it didn't hurt. His splitting headache that had been crippling five minutes ago was completely gone, in fact, he felt good, amazing even. But even if he felt amazing, he still couldn't battle five pirates all at once. 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, a teabag was stuck in this washed up man's hair, The captain sniffed, "Where did ye come from tea man?" The captain queried once more, "this'll be yer last chance lad" The newly named "tea-man" opened his mouth to speak, but suddenly his mouth felt like it was suckered shut by an external force. He felt a rage and bloodlust writhe inside him, as if a tentacle had twisted around his body. "I wish to join your crew" He announced, staring the captain dead in the eye. The captain met his gaze for about two seconds, then burst out laughing. "Yer tellin' me, ye wish to join me crew?" The captain said, holding his hands to his sword, "I could skin ye like a goat matey" the captain mocked, he stared at the sea-beaten boy in the eye and simply turned away. The next few moments were a blur, tea-man's rage reached it's apparent limit, he swirled around him thwacking one pirate in the side of the head. The others attempted to step in, but were caught off-guard by a low leg sweep, tea-man whipped around to face the last pirate lackey, smacking his sword sideways and stealing it from his grasp, but before he could turn his blade upon the captain he felt the tip of a sword against his neck. "Now just calm down matey" The captain sweated intensely, "this is all a misunderstan-" "I wish to join your crew" Tea-man repeated, interrupting him "Aye lad, that can be arranged fer sure!. Don't be doin' anythin' rash now ye?" Tea-man lowered his cutlass, and the captain sheathed his whilst the other pirates were recovered their weapons and footing. The captain jerked his head towards the ship, gesturing to get back on. "I must warn ye lad, where we're goin', it ain't the place for land-lubbers" "Why? Is it dangerous?" Tea-man queried as they hopped onto the ship, "Aye, we're about to fight a war tea-man" The captain informed him, then yelled a few orders at his crew, "Who? Who's fighting? And stop calling me tea-man, just Tea is fine" The captain looked over at him with a sidelong face, "Neo and his Urakan lads, we've set sail for the Isle" When they arrived, there was smoke and cannon-fire everywhere and the sounds of clashing steel ringing through the streets, "What the hell is happening?" Tea asked the captain, who glanced at him before turning and yelling more orders to the crew "Uraka has attacked earlier than expected, if ye wanted to join me crew, now's yer chance to prove yerself" He said, grimacing at the same time. "Ye wanted to be a Barbossan matey" The captain pulled his cutlass from it's sheathe and tapped it on each of Tea's shoulders, "Welcome to ye crew" The streets were littered with bodies and filled with smoke as Tea sprinted through the chaos, as they moved in on the citadel. He found a group of Barbossans desperately fighting off the Urakans scaling the walls, and he leaped into battle slashing left and right, taking down the Urakans he went. But no matter how many he killed, there seemed to be an endless stream of men from the other streets flooding towards them. The captain turned to him and the surviving Barbossans, He thought for a second, and shouted "Follow me" The remaining group went through the back alleys killing all the Urakans they could, but men were falling on both sides,

This war was lost.

Tea turned back to face the remaining pirates, "We need to leave, or we'll all die" Tea began moving back the way he had come from the port, the Captain looked at him and nodded, then began to lead them down towards the harbour. They reached the ship Tea had sailed in on, hopped aboard and began scrabbling to depart. Tea made ready the sails as the Captain yelled over the sounds of the fading battle, "We're leaving. Now. And check the cargo holds for the Urakans." Some men nodded and began to head down towards the holds, they had just pushed off the pier when a strangled yelp echoed from the hatch leading down to the cargo. "Men ready!" The captain cried loudly as they prepared to be attacked, and as predicted four Urakan men showed their faces through the hatch. Tea hacked and sliced at the enemy, fighting viciously to break his opponents guard. Eventually the Urakans began to falter under the pirate and Tea's endless barrage of attacks, and they gave up ground to them. The last Urakan threw down his weapon and fell to his knees, "Please! Don't kill me!" But Tea had no remorse, he plunged his sword deep into the man's chest. Tea wiped his blade on the dead man's clothes and turned to the captain, "What's our heading". The Captain grasped the wheel and replied, "Uraka, the battle of the Isle is lost but the war has just begun." Tea turned to the inferno that blazed behind him but noticed the Captain's face remarkably turn to a smile and out the Captain sang,

Yo ho yo ho the pirates life for me...

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.