Astrid Rackham

Captain Astrid Rackham is the Pirate Captain of the Skulduggers, as well as a Knight of House Paxia due to her allegiance to the Eldham Legion during the War of the Comet, and is known across Abexilas for her various exploits. She swears loyalty to all those who swear loyalty back to her, and has a hard to decode moral compass. She sails the seas of Abexilas, robbing, pillaging, and raiding anything she deems fit. 
===Early Life.===
Astrid Rackham was born in a rural village to a Testificate father, though it is unclear whether he was a villager or an illager, and an absent Human mother in the lands of Eldham. She was raised on books and literature, and soon gained an aspiration and love of the sea. After their mother left, they worked a steady job as a tailor before leaving to work for the Yørv of Midjor as a sailor and privateer.
=== Hatred of Rathnir ===
As a young teen on the Eldhamite seas, she saw many of the villages she had grown up around disappearing, instead being replaced by Rathniri settlements. As Rathniri influence grew across Eldham, so too did her hatred of the foreigners. Amongst her circles, she began to call the people of Rathnir "slags" after the stony waste that volcanoes leave behind. This led to her becoming more than just a privateer for Midjor, however, as she began to raid Rathniri settlements on her own accord.
=== Gunpowder Cay ===
While scrolling through the various maps and charts she kept in her quarters, she found a suspiciously empty sea north of Barbossa and in the middle of the Empire of Valreach-Simulami. Dropping the sails of her sloop and sailing towards the empty spot, she found an uncharted island with mud-huts and a group of unfriendly men on the island. Whilst not technically discovering it due to the clear signs of life already on the island, she found out about it herself. She immediately begins to find higher class and political forces in the Empire to begin negotiations with taking over this island. Though it was only technically on Valreach-Simulami land, it was safer to not pick a fight with one of the largest empires in Eldham. After many talks with the Imperare of Valreach-Simulami, Felöks Zeno Hrafn, a deal was struck. Drive out the men squatting on their land, and you may have their land. Captain Astrid Rackham thought this resolution was far better than the island being razed by some far away government that would barely benefit from the hunk of dirt, so she did exactly as asked. Ripping apart the buildings of the squatters who once lived there, she was reportedly very excited to see the natural lands of the isles being unearthed. Eventually, after all that remained was salvaged, construction began on docks, small fishing huts, and of course, her personal fortress atop the skull cliffs.
=== The War of the Comet ===
=== Abexilas ===
== Notable Raids and Crimes ==
=== The New Flameton Massacre ===
Stepping off of the Broadside Ballad, she admired the grassy shores of the island the settlers of Flameton decided to call home. However, drawing her blade and her piece again, she began to beat people in the sunny streets with the hilt of her sword. This time, however, the settlers were prepared. Five armed guards jumped from the shadows, chasing Astrid back to the boat. She stuck her tongue out at them as she dropped her sails, but before she had time to wipe the sweat from her brow, a guard had ender pearled onto the deck of the sloop. Jumping in surprise, she wildly shot at him with her pistol, missing, and then ran into the cabin below. The ship sailed away as more guards followed her until it's voyage was unceremoniously cut short by a sand bank. Astrid and the Guard were launched into each other below deck, before Astrid finally pinned him onto the bilge and shot him in the face. Water poured into the bilge from the collision, but there was not time to think about that. Running from the top deck to the bowsprit of her ship, she jumped onto shore and began sprinting along, deeper into land. The four remaining guards followed swiftly behind, Allister himself at the head of their formation. Skidding on her heels, she stopped in front of a massive quarry, an elevator to the bottom right in front of her. Standing in front of the quarry, she challenged the strongest guard before dodging to the right like a matador and kicking him down the mineshaft. As the strongest guard tumbled down, she took the elevator, reaching the bottom before the guard splattered across the stones below. Stealing the guard's weapons, she climbed back up the elevator and shot another guard, sending the final guard running. Allister was all who remained. After an altercation, he was killed by her.
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