Jacob of Arden

Michael Hollard; son

Donnel Hollard; son

Elana Hollard; daughter

George Hollard; son

Jonathan Hollard; grandson

Norris of Adville; brother by law

Mikael; kin

Andrew; kin

**Ser Jacob Braveheart** is a Lord Knight of Greenlands, and the founder of House Hollard. He is the Bannerman of Lord George Brune and a Former Privateer Captain of the Free Cities, popularly known by the name "**Captain Braveheart**".

## History

### Origins & Upbringing

Born as **Jacob Fisher**, he was the secondborn of two sailor lovers. He is the younger brother of **Edd Fisher**. After the death of their parents at the hands of pirates, Edd and Jacob came into the care of their grandfather when Jacob was only five years old. Jacob's Grandfather who was a merchant himself taught the two boys fishing and farming, and trained Edd in fencing with the help of their headservant. In 99 CE, their grandfather passed away suddenly, his three uncles fought over the land and riches left by their grandfather, and the two boys came into the care of their poorest and cruel uncle, who beat the kids to near death for food. Edd learned to fend for himself, earning himself a place in the township's guards, while the weak and beaten Jacob poorly managed, until one day in the dead of the night, Jacob broke free of his prison cellar and strangled his uncle to death, after breaking his legs with hilt of his sword, and running away with his uncle's mule, only to be arrested at the town's gate by the guards, whom he killed with the help of other prisoners he was being sent with after opening the prisoner gate by trickery.

After escaping with two strangers, Ellie and Mikael, Jacob was captured by a group of exiled knights, who took the three strangers inside their company. Mikael alongside Jacob learned to fend for themselves and often accompanied by the group headed out hunting or fishing for carps or wild hares. Sometime in 102 CE, the company was travelling through the Town of Dontos when they were attacked by mercenaries and sold into slavery.

### Sea Life

Jacob along with Mikael, Ellie, **Gabe**, Ser Donnel, and **Ser Elliot** were bought by the owner of a brothel in Adville, a town port located on the southern outskirts of the Free Cities and the Duchy of Gladius. The Town Port was run by spice merchants, privateers, sellswords, hustlers, and exiled knights. In Adville, the owner of the small brothel enslaved Mikael as the doorman, while the two knights became guards of the brothel, and as for Jacob and Gabe they became the serving lads, and Ellie was inducted into the business under Madam Elana.

Sometime in Early 103 CE, Jacob and Ser Donnel were bought by a privateer crew, while the others remained in the brothel in Adville. After managing to kill a naval officer of the Illyrian Navy during an encounter, Jacob was taken in by the crew as a Cupbearer to the First Mate, **Master Andrew**, while Ser Donnel served the crew as the Deckhand.

In 107 CE, the Privateer Crew were attacked by the Grass Pirates (backed by the "**Illyrian Navy**" for the dirty sea work) while their stay in royal waters at Merci Island. The Crew was aided by Privateer Captain Asha Marigold, a known and feared **pirate-turned-privateer captain**. After the skirmish at Merci Waters and the death of countless sailors, a consensual vote took place with Captain Asha as the Judge and Friend to the (Late) Captain of the Ship, First Mate Andrew became Captain, while Ser Donnel was elected as First Mate in his place, and Jacob as Deckhand in his place. The crew's favorite "Phil" was appointed as Quartermaster. With the death of countless sailors, Captain Andrew sailed to the **Friendly Waters** of Adville to collect new crew members.

Adville was run by total of three powers, brothel, privateers, and gladiator master, respectively; Madam Elana and Mikael, Captain Dostoevsky, and Lord Cerwyn. Captain Andrew along with his crew sailed to Adville where he bargained a deal with Lord Cerwyn for twenty strong men (either exiled knights or sellswords) in exchange for three bags of silver every two months. Captain Andrew sold the sloop along with bounty from the last skirmish to Captain Dostoevsky in exchange for a ketch.

Captain Andrew along with his crew became among the known fourteen privateers in the **Blue Sea** under the Royal Navies of Gladius, and Memphis. Grand Captain Andrew controlled one ketch ship and one sloop ships, with the sloop run by Captain Donnel. Following the Defeat of **Grand Captain Mason's Fleet** and **Grand Captain Joer's Fleet** at the hands of the **Illyrian Navy**, Grand Captains Andrew, Jeffery, and Asha divided the bounty after defeating the **Illyrian Southern Fleet**, with Captain Andrew controlling one ketch ship and three sloop ships, with the other two run by Master Phil and Master Jacob becoming Captains. Captain Jacob running his own sloop parted ways with Grand Captain Andrew in 110 CE, and sailed to the Heartless Gulf, run by the Southern Tribune, a group of privateer captains controlling the waters, the Saffron Navy, the Alamite Navy, the Salladhor Navy, and the Asshai Navy, Four Sea Lords. Captain Jacob took refuge under the **Asshai Navy** as Privateer Captain of Merci Island, soon earning the name "**Captain Braveheart**".

Returning to the **Blue Sea**, Captain Jacob commanding the Ketch Ship "**Black Marion**" became one of the Thirteen Privateers. Captain Jacob reunited with Lady Ellie and married her in the Spring of 112 CE, with his marriage graced by the presence of Captain Andrew, Captain Walid Al-Saan, Captain Amir bin Rauf, Captain Asha Marigold, Mikael, Ser Donnel, Governor of Ethos, and Captain Abdul Salladhor, his privateer mates.

### Lordship

Captain Jacob with his wife settled in **Adville**, and his two sons, Elton and Michael, where he ruled as the Fourth Lord of Adville alongside **Madam Elana and Mikael**, **Captain Dostoevsky**, and **Lord Cerwyn**.

In 114 CE, Captain Jacob along with his First Mate Mikael and his friend Privateer Captain Donnel sailed to the Emirate of Ethos, where they were welcomed by Captain Amir and Captain Jeffery, and followingly joined the Meeting by the Governor of Ethos and the Duchess of Ethos, who had summoned sixteen privateer captains to take over the **Emirate's Waters** and the **Port City** of the Commonwealth Order, Port Martin. The Meeting was finally held in the presence of two naval commanders, the governor of ethos, the duchess of ethos, a sellsword captain, and seven privateer captains, and a settlement was signed, giving the privateers control over the South Eastern Seas after capturing the Port City, **Port Martin**.

And in Late 114 CE, Privateer Captain **Jacob Braveheart** with his three ketch ships alongside Privateer Captain Donnel with his one ketch ship and two sloop ships; Privateer Captain Amir bin Rauf with his four ketch ships and one brig ship; Privateer Grand Captain Abdul Salladhor with his eight ketch ships and three galleon ships, Privateer Captain Dostoevesky with his five ketch ships and one barque ship; Privateer Grand Captain Andrew Seaborn with his five ketch ships and three brig ships, Privateer Grand Captain Asha Marigold with her six ketch ships, three brig ships, and one galleon; and Privateer Grand Captain Walid Al-Saan with his four galleon ships and one frigate ship sailed outside the Waters of Port Martin, where they were greeted by Commodore Williams of the Ethos Royal Navy.

The Privateer Fleet was met at the Neutral Island of Portia, where they the two parties were greeted by Duke Santiago of Portia, and Captain Walid Al-Saan with Captain Asha Marigold and Captain Abdul Salladhor declared War on Dustinfield, one of the twelve states under the **Protection of the Commonwealth Order** under the "**Treaty of Ethos and Al-Saan**", and with that the Duke of Portia, Duke Santiago beheaded Lord of Port Martin, Commodore Rickfield and his men, sending his own surviving puppet, Lieutenant Doyle back with the severed heads of the lord and his men as gifts by the New Sea Lords of the Waters. Duke Santiago stayed out of the naval warfare, leaving Captain Walid Al-Saan with his seven privateer captains, sailing for Port Martin as word spread of privateer attack on the Commonwealth Protected City, and with no time allying ships numbering one hundred from the port cities of Port Gilbert, Port Ferdinand, and Port Antonio.

### Sea Life

In 109 CE, Captain Andrew with enough bounty from hunts, royal encounters, and pirate brawls, and selling the sloop ship to a brothel owner, he bought two new ketches, one under his command and one under Jacob, making Jacob a captain, and soon a recognized privateer captain among the pirates, mercenaries, and the illyrian fleet. During one such encounter, Jacob met with the **Company of Sellswords** gone by the name of Rykker's Men, with whom Captain Jacob inducted acts of piracy and hustling, becoming one of the few rich sea captains in the seas. Following his road to piracy, he was followed by his crew attacked and captured a port city, joined by other former privateers, Corsair Captain Walid Al-Saan, Privateer Captain Wilson, and Privateer Captain Asha Marigold. Together, the four of them captured the port city, and took control of the fort held by the **Tyrinian Royal Fleet Commodore**, beheading him along with his loyal men, while others turned to piracy under the Black Flag Tribune, the four captains, with Captain Wilson dying soon of old age and passing on his wealth (sea lordship, ships, and gold) to the other three captains, aside from a homestead and a marketplace, passing on to his children.

### Lordship

Following the death of Captain Wilson, Captain Jacob took command of Fort Hilton, a hill castle surrounded by a grassy fields and a small township on the outskirts of the Free City of Arden. Captain Jacob met with Captain Wilson's family, where he reunited with Ellie who turned out to be **Captain Wilson's Niece**, and married her in Spring of 110 CE, which was welcomed by the presence of Captain Walid Al-Saan, Captain Asha Marigold, and Captain Andrew. For several nights, the **Sailors of the Bay**, named after Captain Walid, Al-Saan rejoiced with celebrations.

Captain Jacob traveled to the Adville, where he reunited with his sword master and old friend, Mikael, who owned the second richest brothel in the port township. Captain Jacob remained in Adville where he bought a dockyard and a homestead by the ports, and settled with his wife and son until 116 CE when the Adville was attacked by pirates scum. Masters of Adville fought together against the pirates with assistance of Rykker's Men. After the battle was won, Ellie died during childbirth of Captain Jacob's second son. Together, with his two sons, Captain Jacob left for the Sternlands beyond the Blue Sea, docking at the Flint's Port. Soon after his arrival, Eastwood was attacked by pirate mercenaries, and Captain Jacob enlisted his ships to support King Albert Ashford along with his fleet of three ketch ships. Following the defeat of pirate mercenaries, King Albert knighted and presented Captain Jacob with a homestead, while Captain Jacob served as Bannerman to Lord George Brune, the Lord of Flint's Port.

In 122 CE, Eastwood faced a coup by rouge knights and royal guards. Eastwood was laid to siege by Lord George and Captain Jacob, who infiltrated the castle township with his strongest men as spice merchants and took hostage the Rebel Commander and his family, forcing the royal guards to surrender, while Lord George defeated the Rebel Captain, Leader of the Rouge Knights in single combat, ending the siege. For his bravery and courage, Captain Jacob was nicknamed "**Jacob Braveheart**" by Lord George who with royal decree named Captain Jacob as the Viceroy of Eastwood, granting him the title of Lord Knight.