Anderson Rookes

'In a world without gold, you and I mighta been heroes, eh, mate?'- Anderson to Max during the Battle of Fort Helena.
Deck Officer Anderson Rookes, later known as Handy Anderson, was a Luskan Naval non-commissioned officer, a half-elven thuggish man. Born in 1496, he was only 17 when he was serving aboard the LEV Eagle Cried Hope, a prison vessel bound for Fort Helena. He was an almost archetypal Lusken naval officer, rough, cunning, and quite a handful. On the voyage, it sank just north of the island in a storm. He and six other officers washed up in their small rowboat a small northern beach. They set off into the jungle, but Anderson was bitten on the neck by a dangling snake. The officers left him for dead, eager to get out of there. Delirious, he stumbled out the next morning to bump into the Lakayan Liberators. Even though they had been his prisoners days before, they gave him food and accompanied him through the jungle, so he was put at ease. He ventured off before they got to Oryix, going to find his friends.
They bumped into him a month later. He had got roped into running with a bandit gang called the Jackals and become a de facto leader of the gang, in fact. He pledged his gang's services to their cause. Anderson returned to Armadillo, amassing hundreds of bandits, thieves, and ruffians. They joined in the assault on Fort Helena. After the establishment of the The Lakayan Federation, Anderson ruled Armadillo for a few years as 'Mayor of Thieves'. He was called upon by Max now and again for dirty work that he didn't want to bear the Federation's name, with Anderson as a sort of contractor sending bandits over. In 1561, with Anderson now 65 but still as strong and sharp as ever, he was called upon to captain the freshly christened LN Bannock's Revenge, and accompany the Night Watch to Waterdeep ahead of the blockade. Machavellio Disforza paid him in a hefty sum of gold to act as their ferryman, but once the group was in position, Anderson sent an apology to them before giving the signal to the Lakayan blockade to open fire. He and the Revenge sailed away.
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