Camz "The Poet"

## ***BACKSTORY***

Camz was born in a small town in the north of France, to a French mother and an Irish father. They toiled and scraped in order to get their son the best education they could, and it paid off in the end. He quickly displayed an aptitude for the sciences, particularly those of biology with special focus on the marine sort, and became lauded far and wide for his insight, making his parents extraordinarily proud. Graduating early to begin his own work, he acquired his own lab and sought answers to the largest question of them all - *what is Life?*

Tireless toil and determination did eventually lead him to the answer, and the implications of it nearly broke his mind. Unable to keep this Truth in his head, and absolutely unwilling to share it for fear of it doing the same to whomever he told, he sought the Mystical for the first time in his life, tracking down a shaman his father had frequently spoken of while he was growing up. Finding him at last after wandering in search for many months, he paid the strange old hermit to cleanse his memory of his awful discovery. The shaman consented to do so, involving a very long and hazy ritual that rendered the lad first overawed, then dumb, then finally comatose.

When he awoke, he could not remember what had driven him into the woods to enlist the services of a shaman. Nor would the old man tell him, keeping to his word that the Binding of the memory was fragile, and mustn’t be disturbed for fear of it resurfacing and overwhelming him again. Freed from his former obsession thusly, he decided to indulge the other passion in his life: the sea. He left the woods and boarded the first boat out of France, an English vessel bound for its colonies in the Caribbean, intent on studying all the marine life he could find on his way there. There were times when his discoveries nagged at something in his mind, subjecting him to inexplicable panic attacks and episodes of mania, during which the crew learned to confine him to quarters until he settled down again.

It was during one such episode that he fell to his bed and slept, and dreamed vivid dreams of a nameless terror, chained to him as an anchor, that dragged him to hideous depths of darkness. When he awoke, in the middle of the night, he was floating atop a wooden raft, hastily fashioned from spare bits of the ship he had been on, which was now nowhere in sight. He wondered at how this had come to pass, and what the state of the rest of the crew was, for a time, but soon came to worry only for his own situation. He was adrift in the middle of the sea, with no provisions of any kind, and after three days of this, his mind began to crack again. Given time to ponder himself and his sorry lot in life, his mind began to drift perilously close to that secret he had locked away, and glimpses of it began to shiver his sensibilities all over again. He had nearly given himself over to it, when at last he glimpsed land.

Hope renewed, he began to paddle toward the island, which turned out to be none other than the Isla de Oro. He was greeted warmly by the inhabitants, and when his strength returned, their purpose was revealed to him. Grateful for their aid at his most desperate moment, he agreed to join the pirates, as an opportunity to continue his studies. But the walls of the Truth’s prison were weakened by his experience, and there are times when, for a few hours, he is reduced to ravening and wailing as his mind is again subjected to its unveiling.

His seemingly desperate situation is at most times well in hand, though, and did nothing to stop or slow his rise through the ranks of the Gutless Goon. Indeed, when a new Captain was needed for the Quacken’s Wrath after Vaporwave stepped away from her helm, he had proven himself more than capable, and was a natural choice for his peerless knowledge, tempered by the wisdom of his experiences. He serves at her helm still, the latest in a line of the most illustrious Captains that the Isle has produced.

## ***APPEARANCE AND GEAR***

* Camz is a tall man, with curly blond hair falling to his shoulders and emerald green eyes. A scar, hidden by his clothes, runs down the full length of his back. He knows not where he acquired this scar, but he has come to suspect that it was inflicted on him during the ritual with the shaman in his youth.

* He is most often dressed in a shirt and large pants, which let him execute wide movements while fighting, over which he wears a long dark coat bedecked with several pockets within and without. He keeps several objects in these pockets, some filled with magic and others with memories, collected during his time on land and at sea. He guards this coat very jealously, though, and does not share its contents with anyone, with the exception of his notebook filled with observations about the flora and fauna he has encountered in his travels. When not fighting, he also has a pen behind his ear, ready to write at any time.

* He carries with him two rapiers, which he often dual wields when fighting gets too crowded, and also has a pistol concealed inside his coat as backup. Hanging from his belt is a battle axe that he brought back from a trip to the northern parts of Europe. He often employs it against more skillful enemies, or when he gets worked into a rage, taking advantage of its brutality to splinter the morale of his opponents.

## ***PERSONALITY AND ABILITIES***

* As his epithet suggests, Camz is a man who knows many things, some too dark to be revealed, others more mundane and acceptable. He is learned in many languages, fluently able to read and write in all of them, and has a penchant for exotic cuisines, a somewhat rare commodity among pirates, and one for which Puerto Dorado’s citizens are ever grateful.

* When he is not talking, he is sure to be contemplating one or many things, his mind never at rest. As a result, he is appropriately cautious in most situations, always thinking before he acts. His curiosity knows no bounds, however, and this leads him to endanger his own life at times in order to collect a fact of which he was not previously aware.

* While being very collected most of the time, Camz sometimes goes into a berserker rage while fighting, a state in which he simply stops thinking, and attacks anyone and anything not wearing his colors. At these times, his axe becomes his favored weapon, and the illusion of a furious Viking is often enough to scatter his enemies before him.

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