(Archived / Old Lore) Oran Harrowbrook

### Romances

Oran has had flirtatious encounters with a few individuals but nothing ever really came to fruition.

## Affiliations

### Previous

Trading ship: CaliburnPirate vessels: Jardani's Reprieve, The Wilde Rose, and The Sea Wulf.

Endless Sea Vessels: The Last Shackle

### Profession

Town Crier, Shantyman, Pirate Captain, Last Shackle Engineer.

### Allies

Pirates, Jardani, Sykes, Blackhearts, Everfolk, Worldwalkers,

### Enemies

Coven, (not directly, but they tend to butt heads). Her Majesties royal navy, The Compelled Hands

## Miscellaneous

### Skills

Shanty singing, Pistol Marksmanship, Ley tinkering, Smuggling, Trading, Information Brokering

### Weapons

Twin flintlock pistols, Woodsplitting axe (used during Lore and sold to the Blackhearts)

### Religion

Norse/Celtic

*"Your Order clearly said, "Three SWORDS!!!" - Oran Harrowbrook, in an argument with Sir Reginald "Rooster Reyes esq.*

## Personality

Captain Oran Harrowbrook is a mellow and cheery pirate of the Endless Sea. He enjoys playing games with guests and challenging them to greater feats of piratical greatness.

He is loud and not afraid to express his feelings, which has put him in a spot of bother more than once. He is known best for his rambunctious shanties that shook the bar of the tavern, and serenaded the gates at portal close.

He is a Pirate Captain, a Ley Engineer, and a Smuggler. He headed up guild functions involving World Walker Pirate Captains following the "Smuggler" path. Together they moved illegal merchandise, built enclaves, and created scavenger hunts for other pirates to test their mettle on.

## History:

### Before Evermore

#### ***Home and Family:***

Oran was born on his Grandfather's berry farm in Fife, Scotland. He and his sister Nora were raised there by his parents, Magnus Harrowbrook and Nina Harrowbrook (Williams), and his grandparents, Leif and Frejya Harrowbrook.

When he was 16, his father arranged for him to apprentice at sea with an old family friend by the name of "Augustus Noons." He served aboard the trading ship "The Caliburn" for a space of four years as a cabin boy, then a fully paid sailor taking up the shantyman position. When Spanish privateers mortally wounded the vessel, Oran lost Noons and most of his comrades as "The Caliburn" limped into harbor. What was left of the surviving crew went their separate ways. Oran took his sea chest and began the long trek home, but decided to visit his cousin, Alice, in Evermore, for the holidays and catch up. Unbeknownst to him, he was about to embark on a WILD ride.

## Active Seasons:

### Aurora 2018

Oran came to Evermore after the loss of his ship, The Caliburn. Equipped with enough money to take the train back to his home in Scotland, he decided instead to spend the holiday with his cousin Alice Williams, rather than brave the short journey on the sea. While in Evermore, he joined a Caroling Quartet, for which he was the tenor; as well as earning the honor of being a town crier opposite Sykes.

When he wasn't on his crying route, he was often found working within the tavern, making good friends with Suds McBride and Jardani. Jardani was the one who encouraged him to get up on the bar and sing his shanties again, helping his heart heal from the loss of his crew, and starting an Evermore Legacy.

Over the course of the season, he would come to discover the true identity of "Badger," the gravedigger and groundskeeper of Louden's rest whom Oran had known since he was a boy. This discovery would sew the seeds of distrust and hatred in Oran's heart for the man going forward. Oran also began physical training with General Drifa, who would show him combat and strategy using pole weapons and swords.

At the conclusion of the season, Alice had moved to France to be with her lover, Dorian Diggins, leaving Oran to take care of her ailing mother. With no skills in farming, Oran elected to use the rest of his money to send his Aunt home in his place, and return to sea to make his living.

### Mythos 2019

When Oran returned for Mythos, he was a changed man, having tasted his first of Piracy at the side of Captain Fergus Nettleton, he quickly began black market trade and fast friendship with Reginald (Rooster) Reyes,Benjamin Scuff and Greasy Goblin.

With the help of his legal, and illegal business dealings as well as the assistance of a strange pirate named "Indigo," Oran bought his first ship and began recruiting World Walkers to crew it, joining his psudo-guild and earning positions aboard the ship, as well as the honor of re-naming it every night.

### Lore 2019

When Lore 2019 came around, so did Captain Abberford Duphrane. Finally there were enough Pirates in Evermore to fulfil the requirements for an official guild! This happy news was somewhat soured by the quick return of the Darkblood plague, deadlier and more aggressive than the first time. The Pirates where conscripted as Shocktroopers and everymen, filling in any holes left in the Knight and Blackheart defense. When issues arose from Darkbloods sneaking into Evermore through hidden byways, Oran was approached by Ser Kilyrie and forced to shut off and collapse most of his smuggling tunnels and hidey holes scattered around the town and it's surrounding forests.

Near the end of the season, he was wounded in a struggle by Infected Tip Top and put in quarantine alongside Piper, Arawn, Ollie, Phillip, and Kyne. After languishing there for weeks, he lost his grip on time, often perceiving World Walkers as former crewmates or his little sister, Nora. When not lucid, he would tell stories of old sailing adventures and legends of Robin Hood, or walk around Louden's rest singing the Christmas carols he learned during Aurora, as well as loudly proclaiming the time and any other "News" the voices in his head convinced him needed to be said. When he WAS lucid, he complained of the many voices in his head, often muttering about information he had learned by having a Hive Mind connection to his friends.

He attacked with the Darkblood Horde during the Darkest night, and was cured of the plague a few short weekends later.

After the Plague fiasco, Oran was given command of "The Sea Wulf," Captain Nettleton's ship, as Nettleton planned on retiring. Oran passed the reigns to the first mate of the Wulf and instead elected to join Duphrane aboard "The Last Shackle."

### Aurora 2019

After a seven year voyage in the Endless Sea with the Last Shackle, Oran returned alongside Captain Duphrane and the Shackle's Navigator, Gazer. Unable to leave due to damages to the Shackle, Oran did what he could for the starving town, but what was left of his smuggling stocks where quickly diminished. Starving, Oran was one of the townsfolk to accept the pies of the Elves of Light and fall under their spell because of it. Under the command of Gafruk and Ginlay, Oran helped attack Sykes in "The March of the Toy Soldiers."

After being freed from control by the drums of the Wolves of Winter, Oran spent a great deal of time and money with Sykes, making sure his leg was returning to a usable state. Not long had passed before the Frost Lords appeared in Evermore, delivering Gafruk to the Wolves of Winter to be killed, and Ginlay to the Knights of Evermore for a trial. Oran wanted her dead. He would be outvoted however, and Ginlay would become instrumental to saving his life when "The Great Freeze" nearly obliterated the entire town.

### Betwixt and Between 2020

During the brief time the portals were open in the spring, Oran spent his time with the townsfolk and the crew of the Shackle, just enjoying living in Evermore. He sang "Crossing the Bar" and kept watch over the train station as Mortimer escorted Wen, Caderyn, and Faldo to the afterlife.

In "The Coins of The Revenant" Novella, he was last seen playing a friendly game against a few of the Shackle crew and Madam Daughtry. He cheerfully banters with Constable Flynn and Dr. Marsh during the game.

## Current Whereabouts

Not much is known about Oran's current whereabouts. What the Pirates do know is that he returned to the pursuit of being a ship's Captain. Whether it is an Endless Sea Vessel or an Earth ship, Oran is off on some adventure with hopes to benefit Evermore's future.

## Trivia

* During his time as a Darkblood Feral, he seemed to have an obsession with hunting down and destroying Gjakull Skare
* Oran was one of the few traders in Evermore, always willing to swap trinkets for gold or other shiny things.
* Oran's Ship, "The Wilde Rose" is an homage to a particular bunch of World Walkers who spent a significant amount of time working with him during Mythos 2019. They always named their ship "The Wilde Rose" after the flower, and the face of a compass.
* Oran's Ship, "Jardani's Reprieve" was the last crew of Mythos 2019, before the official Pirate Guild was created. It is also an obvious hat tip to the issues revolving around Demitri that season, and the death of Jardani, one of Oran's first friends in Evermore.
* Oran's Realms card is actually half of a photo taken of him and Duphrane near the beginning of Lore 2019. Captain Duphrane's Card art is the second half of that photo.
* Oran has loosely referred to a childhood best fried, Corvus "Crow" Fayne, on a few occasions.
* (Spoiler) Oran was at one point a part of the ROR, but was kicked from its ranks by Sephtis after a disagreement involving Evermore's Black Market during Mythos 2019. Whether it was official or if it was simply a misdirection stunt is unclear.

### OOC Trivia

* During the Darkest night, Oran's actor was hit in the face twice!
* At one point, Oran's gun was stolen while he was singing sea shanties.

## Quotes

* "The First rule of being a Pirate; authority is optional, loyalty is not."
* "The first step to redemption is admitting you were wrong."
* "And we'll roll the old chariot along"
* "Eyy oh eyy HAUL AWAY"
* \*Moves eyepatch from one eye to the other mid sentence\*
* "Ahoy there!"
* "I AM A CAPTAIN! I just can't prove it because we are MILES from the sea!"
* "This is the Trading Ducky. She oversees all transactions."
* "I'm drunk and seein double... not to worry. I have two guns for this exact purpose. Now both of you, hold still."
* "It's actually a honeyed mead I'm drinkin, if it were rum I'd be helplessly sloshed by now."
* "CLEAVED, BANGARED, AND MASHED!"
* "Bish Bash Bosh."
* "Care for a game of Liar's Dice?"