Cpt. Horatio Stormstrider

> *"That man, that **thing**... It's a monster. 110,000 victims, 1,100 years at sea..." -Unknown Scholar*
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## Horatio Stormstrider

Horatio Stormstrider after his reanimation

### Aliases

Horatio Jonathan Beckett The Stormstrider

### Affiliation

England (formerly),Spanish Successionists, the Grim Mariner,

## Physical description

### Eye color

Bluish-white

Horatio Stormstrider, born "Horatio Jonathan Beckett," Is an undead Col. in the Royal Navy in 2652.

## Background

### Early Life & Career

Stormstrider was born in the English village of Porthcurno in 1474. As a child, his family would move round the coast of Great Britain frequently, always by ship. Horatio became acquainted to the sea, and eventually enlisted in the Royal Navy (Then not a formal entity, but still theoretically existant), where he would work his way up to the rank of Captain.

in 1510, at the age of 46, he would attend a party in Bilbao, Spain. There, he met distinguished guest, Joanna the Mad, Queen of Castille. Horatio began to love the queen, despite her insanity. It got to the point of obsession. Horatio would practice his blade skills every day in hopes of protecting Joanna if he were given the chance. Then, in 1516, Horatio would be put incharge of a ship: *The Zenith,* which was at the time the crown jewel of the British navy. He, along with multiple other ships, was tasked with taking a port city within Jamaica from Spain. Horatio attempted to abuse their relationship to achieve his goal. He sent Joanna a letter requesting that all Spanish troops withdraw from the city prior to the British's arrival. Joanna, now fully aware of what the British were doing, sent a fleet to destroy the Zenith and kill Horatio.

On a late and stormy night, a fleet of 4 Spanish ships approached the Zenith. 1 of them managed to board the ship, but Horatio and his crew managed to fight them off, leaving the ship unmanned. The next 3 ships then began to barrage the Zenith. Sensing defeat, they managed to get their ship very close to one of the Spanish ships, and boarded it. They captured it, but it was a pyrrhic victory. They then boarded another ship, and by the time they captured it, it was only Horatio, and 4 crewmates left. The final Spanish ship managed to board the ship they had just captured, and took all 5 of them prisoner. After being held trial infront of the Spanish ship's captain, all 5 crew members were sentenced to walk the plank. Horatio Stormstrider died in the atlantic ocean.

#### Reanimation

The next thing he remembered, him and the 4 crewmates were adrift onboard the heavily damaged *Zenith*. They were undead; not zombie-like, but blue and translucent like ghosts. They could touch things, but not eachother. They could move objects if they had the intention to, but bullets and such would pass right through them. Recognizing his new immortal form, The crew vowed vengeance on the Spanish. Horatio in particular was devastated and felt betrayed. All of this obsession and he had been stabbed in the back. Part of him wanted to kill Joanna, but another part was still obsessed with her. Regardless, the Zenith would be repaired by the crew, and they eventually turned to piracy. They would sail the atlantic waters for over a millenia tormenting any Spanish ships that happened by.

### Second War of the Spanish Succession

When they learned about the Second War of the Spanish Succession, they sailed to Eurokon, and began their fight there. They would aid the cause of the Successionists throughout the war, and never left any survivors. They became a legend; a myth. For his death and resurrection in the storm, he got a new nickname: "Stormstrider." Tales of the Stormstrider on the Zenith, now nicknamed the "Grim Mariner," spread across Spanish-Eurokon. Seeing the ship became an immediate death sentence if you supported the Spanish. Despite now being revered by all in the empire, Horatio was still troubled. He couldn't put Joanna behind him and still wanted to be with her; a curse that would stay with him for all eternity. Horatio's (and by extension, his crew's) actions in Eurokon are widely considered to be acts of piracy.