Brownbeard The Plump

Brownbeard began life in a small city called Spurshire, and was named Henry (Hank by friends and family), the eldest sibling in a family of six. As such, he became the parental figure for all of them when his parents vanished mysteriously one day. He worked at any job he could find, which was often as a tavern bouncer, mopping floors and giving the boot to troublemakers. He discovered along the way that he had a talent for metalwork and chandlery, so he earned a decent wage for his family doing craftsman work on the side.

Alas, bouncers often make enemies in their profession keeping order, and so it happened one night that an unruly patron was thrown into the street, and nursed a furious grudge against Hank for it. Hank did not know that the drunkard was the son of the town magistrate - not that it would have stayed his hand anyway, but perhaps he would have been prepared for the backlash that was the result of their confrontation. He was not, however, able to foresee that young man complaining to his father and rustling up a posse of corrupt town guards to raid his home while he worked. They confiscated all of his tools and stock, destroying what they could not take with them, and in a particularly devilish pique of outrage, they arrested his entire family and remanded them to the custody of an orphanage.

Upon returning home that night and discovering what had transpired, he flew into a rage, storming off to the orphanage and demanding the release of his siblings. His furious entreaties were wholly ignored, and he was tossed out into the street, after his own fashion. For several years he tried in vain to have his family released through legal means, and when that yielded no success, he slipped into alcohol and vengeance. He became a criminal, and adopted the name Brownbeard, robbing and otherwise harassing any who wore an official uniform of any sort.

Becoming a somewhat famous brigand in and about town, he overplayed his hand one day by holding up the treasury caravan of the Duke himself. He was captured, tried, and sentenced to a lengthy prison sentence on the Isla Della Morte. There he languished for two years, until the island was raided by pirates. They ransacked the fort, killing all the guards and taking whatever was not bolted down. All of the prisoners’ cells were unlocked and opened, and they were each given the choice to join them, or to make their own way off the prison island. Brownbeard chose the former option, and was presented to their Captain, giving a start at what appeared to be a squid stuffed into a sailor’s outfit, wearing a tricorn cap atop a head dominated by a huge eye.

Recalling his purpose, he stamped out his horror and disbelief, and entreated Captain Eye to sail for Spurshire, expounding upon its riches until the strange pirate captain’s giant eye gleamed like a lighthouse beacon. Taking his place among the gunnery crew, they made for the coordinates he provided, and proceeded to devastate the town’s defenses from afar before hauling ashore for the proper raid.

When he landed, Brownbeard howled with two years of suppressed rage and hatred, and ignored his orders to charge the palace, armed only with a cudgel he had found in the hold of the Vixen’s Fury, made of mahogany and Damascus steel. He slaughtered everyone who stood in his way, arriving at last at the residence of the crooked magistrate who had taken his family so long ago. With unquenchable flames in his eyes, he laid the magistrate low, and then dropped his cudgel to squeeze the life out of his smug son with his own hands. He held on long after the light had left his eyes, only releasing his limp form when Captain Eye entered the room behind him and took in the scene. Recognizing the mad aftermath of vengeance, she forestalled the berating she had prepared to give him for disobeying orders, and returned with him to the Fury.

Along the way, he stopped in the ruins of his old family home, searching for a keepsake to commemorate his sated revenge. He dug through the rubble for a time, until his hands closed around one of the very first candelabras he had ever fashioned. It was a crooked and imperfect thing, and was likely cast aside during the raid for its unseemly appearance. Finding it to be a perfectly appropriate relic and talisman for himself, he left his home behind for the last time, and sailed away to the Isla de Oro. He continues to man the guns for the ship that aided him in his quest for justice, always eager to visit that same justice upon the uniformed and bedecked figures of corruption that the pirates of the Isle come upon, a terrible figure of righteous redress to any and all who hide behind the laws of man in order to violate the laws of humanity.

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