Hank Scurvy

The Beginning
Hank Scurvy. The Former privateer of Nedien, Captain of the Maelstrom Pirates, and founder of Alalea.

Hank was born on a undesignated port within the northern-side of Rathnir. Hank was wandering around the western side of the port when he saw something glowing within the water. As he climbed down the sharp rocks from the dock he could see that it had the shape of what seemed to be a cube. He jumped into the water swimming to the cube and as he reached for the cube it began to glow and soon dematerialize into his body, he didn't understand what it was until months later. Hank had a strange ability to control the weather, though he had no idea how to control it and constantly got himself into dire situations, so he usually reframed from using it. From what it seemed, it had limited use before its power would drain out.

Due to unfortunate circumstances, his family went into deep finacial struggles due to the increases in taxes all because the director of the port just wanted to make a quick buck. Therefore his father Marcus Scurvy tried finding faster ways to make money, soon becoming captain of the "Jewel Stone Pirates". a notorious crews in Rathnir.

Hank looked up to his father, he considered him as a powerhouse of the sea and wanted to be just like him. He found it amazing to travel the mysteries of the waters, while collecting doubloons and plunder in the process. Although aware of the dangers of the vast oceans, he considered the riches fame and power to be worth it. His mother Elizabeth Scurvy however discouraged it. She knew it would be unsafe to let an actual child commit crimes of piracy. She wouldn't want her own son to be involved in such activities, after all he could possibly be killed at sea or worse. It wasn't soon before Hank agreed and listened to his mother, deciding not to follow that ambition. Year's later they found out a Nation from Syltor succesfully captured Hanks father, and he was sentenced to death. Hank and his mother we're devastated after hearing the news, few months later his mother came down with a disease known as Scurvy ironically and couldn't get it treated due to not being able to afford proper medical attention. She after four weeks died in her sleep, peacefully.

Hank was devasted, he felt as if his life was over. He made a promise to his now dead family that he'd one day prove his worth and become notorious to all of Rathnir.

Debut Years
Years had gone by since then, when Hank reached the age of 20 he decided to form his own crew and sail the seas hoping to carry on his families legacy. The abilities he owned to practically create storms at will was enough to make the man extremely notorious to the world. Soon though he was surrounded by a fleet of naval war ships owned by the same kingdom that executed his father. Hank knew there was no where to run and was aware that his crew would not be able to handle the amount of warships surrounding them. He used all of what energy he had left to create a massive tsunami. What he didn't realize however is that he couldn't re-direct the wave. Although it sunk the warships, it sunk his ship as well killing his entire crew in the process. Soon he woke up on a port of a town called Silkov, where a man named "Larlan" found him on the beachside and took him in.

When asking hank of what happened, he couldn't remember. He seemed to have gained amnesia from the blow that massive wave gave him. Which also appeared to be all the energy that was left within that strange cube. Larlan gave him shelter and soon introduced him to the man who was in control of the town under the name of "Goldy".

Goldy when meeting Hank was in shock, he knew who this man was. Hank however had no clue of his past crimes against Nedien, goldy wasn't very sure about having Hank in his town and demanded he'd leave at once. Larlan stood up and said. "Goldy listen, this man washed up on shore we cant just kicked the dude out." Goldy refused to listen to Larlan, but then Hank offered a proposition. "Could i possibly be of some assitance to this town to gain your trust?" This caught goldy off guard, and he thought for a moment. Soon he realized that he's been having issues with transporting materials such as food, resources, and messages by sea due to a monster that roams within it known as... "Makauo." Goldy told Hank if he could slay the beast and bring something back to prove of it, he'd let him stay until he was ready to leave. Hank agreed to the offer and asked when to start, Goldy told Hank to follow him and took Hank to the harbor of Silkov.

Battle of the legendary Makauo
Hank was given a simple Caravel and supplies for the journey. Afters weeks and months of sailing he saw something within the rough seas, It had a sail of a sea serpent on its back, It growled as if a Dog was fighting over a helping of meat, and from what Hank saw it seemed to be the size of a galleon. It soon lunged out and attacked Hanks ship sinking it sinking it in the process.

Hank was sinking with the boat, he tried to swim but his leg was caught onto something. He looked down to see his leg caught between metal and rope from the broken mast. Hank did everything he could to pull himself out of the rubble but to no avail. Once realizing the dire situation at hand, he grabbed the nearest object he could see within the foggy water. He grabbed a scimitar and looked down at his leg that was stuck raising the blade, and then cut his leg clean off. Finally free he began to swim upwards but as he looked down he saw the beast begin swimming towards him at high speeds. It appears the beast smelt the blood seeping out of his leg within the water. He couldn't swim any faster due to him cutting off his leg and was filled with dread. Hank felt as if this was the end thinking. "Theres no way out of this." Then out of sheer panic Hank with the blade still in his hands swung at the beast. The blade struck Makauo directly in its head, slicing it open, as Makauo lost its blood at a rapid rate it began to stop moving and sunk into the depths of Rathnir. Hank soon began to swim up to the surface, once reaching the top taking a deep breath. Hank was processing of what just happened, as he's never even killed a whale. Yet he just defeated a legendary sea monster of Nedien known as Makauo. He Began to cough out the salty sea water he choked on while drowning in the ocean, but soon he realized something. He saw Makauo sinking into the depths of the ocean, and Hank knew he couldn't leave empty handed. He begun to swim back down to retrive anything he could from the beast.

Soon Hank resurfaced holding the golden eye of Makauo, then realizing he had no way to return. He began to gather up the debris of the once mighty ship he sailed and turned it into a raft using rope and split planks of the said ship. He gathered barrels filled with soggy, salty food and drifted with the raft via using a plank of wood as a paddel. He wrapped his wound with a piece of cloth from the sails of the mast to prevent him from bleeding to death.

The Voyage
Hank began to become pale due to the amount of blood loss from his leg, its been 3 days and he had eaten already a huge portion of the food from the barrel. All that was left was a piece of moldy bread, three apples that've begun to rot and well aged rum. He looked at the last pieces of food, and decided to just throw them over the raft, except for the last bottle of rum obviously. Then he looked at the barrel, then looked at his leg. Hank thought of something. "Hey... I could use this old rusty barrel for something useful!"

He began to dismantel the barrel, and shape it into an artifical leg for the now non-existent leg, and began to use leather straps to tie it around what little amount of thigh he had left. Apparently he had a knack for carpenting, yet he didn't know how considering from his knowledge he had no experience with such things. Either way, he was able to put the bleeding to a halt, and was finally able to stand properly.

The Amnesia.
3 months later he was able to return to Silkov, larlan saw his raft on the coast and ran over to see what had happened. Hank got of the raft and Larlan noticed he had lost his leg and was replaced with a dismantled barrel. "What happened?" Larlan said in shock. Hank responded with. "Dah it twas just a classic make a sacrifice for ye survival sit-e-ation ya know?"

Hank walked into Goldies mansion and into his office, Goldy was suprised to even see Hank come back with only a missing leg. Hank then handed Goldy the eye he had severed from the beast, to show that he was victorious. Goldy was fascinated, he'd never even gotten to have a glimps of the monster. Yet here was the eye of Makaou right infront of him. He muttered "Impressive." Then began to observe the eye. Hank was beggining to leave Goldies office, when he took one last glance at the ever dreadful eye. Then something came to his mind.

Hank began to take a closer look at the eye, something about it was... Familiar. Goldy was confused and ask Hank if he was okay, only for him to be shushed by Hank. Hank took another step, as he walked towards that eye he sliced off the beasts sockets. It began to come back, a fragment of his lost memory. "There's a lad" Hank muttered." "He seems to be holding a trident in his hand." "Has a clean cut of a beard..." Hank begun to fall into a deep state of confusion as he muttered. "The mans name, what was it?... What was this swabbie's name!" "Theres a jolly roger behind the lad, the skull on it and... Plunder for eyes?"

Hank couldn't understand what he was looking at, or more thinking at. Soon though, he realized who that man was.

"That man..." Hank begun to speak once more "I recognize that lad, we shared a spot on the port together..." Goldy began to give Hank a confused look as if he were to come down with some form of insanity from the voyage. "Hank, what do you mean?" Goldy asked out of concern, but Hank doesn't seem to be able to hear his questions anymore. Soon hank mutters one more time... "Old man, is that you?" Then all fades to black.

The founding of Alalea.
Hank and his new crew have begun to work on a civilization known as Alalea, a pirate/bandit friendly port.