Captain Elizabeth Dana Wiston

The captain on her ship

Captain or Z

#### **Appearance**

Narrow and tall, Elizabeth or ‘Z’ as she prefers to go by has an athletic and lithe build of a master swordsman. Her long falls of her bright red hair are nearly restrained by pins, ties or a ponytail so as not in interfere with her field of view. Several small scars mark her face and arms and face mark her as a long term dualist, the fact none are deep or ugly showing off her skill in the art. Her Bright green eyes miss little and from any of her crew it would sound like she could out shout a hurricane when her temper is up.

#### **Temperament**

Usually upbeat and full of energy, many of her foes have mistaken the focused calm before her anger boils over as timidness and paid for it with a scar or worse. She is loyal to those who call her Captain or any who have earned her trust and respect and quick to issue a challenge in the defense of such. Her personal views and harsh reactions to people who oppose them often make their way past her mental filters before her common sense can stop it. Coupled with her stubbornness once a line has been drawn, she often gets into confrontations that end in violence of some sort.

#### **Personal views**

As young as she could remember she was a free woman of the sea, anyone who tries to take that away from her, her crew or others are mortal foes for her. To that end, any meeting or confrontation with slavers will not end well for both parties, legally owned or no. As such any ship of crew caught transporting slaves or officers using slaves to crew their ship will get a long walk off a short plank, she may even let them keep something cheap and heavy from their cargo for the trip.

### **Backstory**

#### **Beginnings**

The Wiston Family name was once well known all around the inner sea as a reliable shipper of valuable low volume goods. All members of the family were raised from an early age to be masters of the waves and a keen mind for business. From there ships Boson who’s showy swordsmanship she loved to watch, the lifelong passion for the way of a dualist began and under his tutelage she quickly found it hard to find anyone but himself that could match her when sparring.

#### **Undue bonds**

One of the hardest things in her early life was the run along the south side of the inner sea, their ship always taking on a load of slaves for sale in other ports. Many whose only crime for which they became property was being in opposition to their country's leader. She felt for them but her father punished her harshly for freeing just one. From that day she made a vow to herself that she would never leave salvers unpunished, legality or otherwise.

#### **Flames do more than burn**

Six years later and she is boson herself on the smaller of the family’s three ships, the Brig ‘Waveskipper’ when the ship was attacked in dock by bandits. Her strict training of the crew led to the alarm being raised quickly and the attack being repelled. Many of the attackers had cheaper blackpowder weapons and pointed out a weakness in her style, she could kill any man face to face, but outside arms reach she could do little but weather the fire. Their leader had a revolver which she took as her own and made a point to master its use just as she did her rapier.

#### **Triumvirate of power**

Later that year their ship fell foul of a storm conjured by magic, though the ship was masterfully built and the crew a well oiled machine it was all they could do to not capsize. If it was not for one passenger they had for this trip, an old wizard of some renown, they would have never made it back to port. She agreed to pay his passage fee out of her own pocket in exchange for teaching her the basics of the arcane. As it turned out, she should have been more specific with her agreement with the canny wizard and he spent the last years of his life in her company, traveling at her expense. It was with Sword, Bullet and Magic that she earned command of a ship of her own, not one handed down by her family.

#### **Black Sails and Bloody decks**

At the age of Twenty the now First Officer Wiston was on duty when the watch called down for sails approaching from behind and gaining fast. Its colouring and lack of pennants marking it as a ship with fell intent and sure enough a warning shot was fired as soon as the tailing ship was in range, kicking up a plume of spray off the port of the ship. This sleek and black sailed warship was not only faster but larger than the brave ‘Waveskipper’ and with regret the Captain ordered the crew to strike sails and hope that it was merely theft they had in mind and not murder.

Sadly, it was not pirates who had run them down, but slavers and as they drew alongside they boasted and jeered of the fate that was to come. With a flash of rage at the threat to her people that it is said causing even the jaded savages took a step back out of reflex, her blade was suddenly in her hand and she knew she would be dead on the deck before she let them take their ship. With a burst of magic and a sudden leap she passed them and was striking at the Slavemaster, shouting to her crew to repel boarders once more as they did for her when she was Boson.

The fight was bloody and not a single one of the people aboard the Waveskipper was left unscarred, the ones that lived at least. If it were not for the fact that the slavers crew was half made up from slaves themselves the day would have been lost, the chance to take up arms to their previous owners too big an opportunity to resist.

She takes a breath as suddenly there are no more foes, the deck around her shin deep in slaver dead and not an inch of her is free of blood, very little of it her own. At her feet, is the Slavemaster, his black heart run through by a single thrust of her rapier. His first officer is down at her back, one of her bullets burst open in his skull. Among the dead on her side are her Captain, his body pierced by several crossbow bolts and half of the people she had called family for the past Eight years.

Hopping up on a box all eyes turn to her, even bloodsoaked as she is, she portrays a striking figure and calls out to the people on deck.

“Brave hearts and strong arms won this day and earned freedom for all of us, I Keep what I kill and I break the chains off those that this scum called property. We met as foes but through this binding of slaver blood we are family, I Rename this ship Badstar for its coming will be an ill omen to all slavers it crosses.”

#### **The raise of Badstar**

In the Six years since now Captain Wiston has made a name for herself and her ship as a bane of Slavers and pirates alike. Some nations view her as little more than a pirate for stealing their ‘cargo’ and sinking their ‘trade’ ships. After a confrontation between Badstar and two others ships, She has had to be put into dry dock for major repairs.

The Ship is unsuitable for most cargo that the family would usually carry, it simply does not have the cargo space. It is on the other hand, heavily armed with the best cannon her money can buy and now has a reputation for getting high value cargo to its destination unmolested

### **People in her life**

#### **Family and Friends**

* Sir Nif Wiston - Father - Head of the family business and in charge of arranging trade deals
* Jane Wiston - Mother - Captain of 'Sky Hook' the largest trading ship in the Wiston fleet.
* Baldus Wiston - Older Brother - Captain of 'Full sails', a Brig that mainly carries bulk wine.
* Jervis and Carlos Wiston - Twin Older brothers - The pair run the family shipyard on the northern coast of the Inner sea.
* Nicolle Wiston - Older sister - Navy officer.
* Gesa Wiston - Adopted sister - saved their mother during a pirate attack, for that she was Adopted and given 'Sidewind' to run for the family.
* Humfry, Tony, Tamia Wiston - siblings killed in the raid on 'Sky Hook'
* Ledrarth Shadebasher - Boson of 'Sky Hook' - Taught Z how to dual.
* Grath Battleforest - Captain of 'Wavescipper' - Deceased
* Garkalm Ironlance - Irrosian Battlemage - Taught Z the basics of combat magic - Deceased

#### **Foes and Enemies**

* Chung Ciao - Pervious Captain of Badstar - Slaver - Deceased
* Sorla Bersk - Brothel owner - Slaver - Deceased
* Captain Nuno Zocrim - Navy Captain of 'Hell's Workhorse' - has been trying to drag Z back to the mainland on charges of Piracy and murder.