Truylos de Velasco y Reggio

## de Velasco

### Fleet

San Mataró (112), Conquistador (30), Cecilia (32), San Blas (18), Santa Rosalia (16)

Truylos de Velasco y Reggio is a highly regarded Spanish Commodore. In his capital ship the "Syracuse" he patrols the seas of the Caribbean with a cohort as protection for Spanish merchant vessels, and the treasure fleet. He has made a goal out of being a specter of doom for any pirates that dare slight the Spanish Throne.

## Appearance

Truylos is an aging pudgy man, while standing taller than the average pirate at 5'10" he is not by looks alone an intimidating figure. He wears the white, blue, and gold of the Spanish Navy while on ship he adorns a tricorn hat though in more formal setting he covers the bald top of his head with a stylish wig. His cheeks puff out and he has a slight double chin at the bottom of his wrinkled face. Below a grey curled mustache that just covers his top lip.

## Personality

A dual man one of indulgence and strict regiment, able to employ both when it is needed. With those of high political standing and his more preferred officers saw a joyful man willing to spend liberally on what some may consider a gluttonous amount of food. However in front of those he is indifferent or even distasteful towards he is a man that demands perfection, harshly punishing any failures or perceived slights. However no matter the setting, he call himself a man of God.

## Biography (WIP)

#### Early Life

Truylos was born in Cartagena 57 years ago, born into higher standing, and with his father's recommendation he entered a naval academy at the age of 16, and graduated an ensign on a Brigantine. He was a very capable officer and with an extremely accomplished career across the Mediterranean, some time during his duty as a captain he was assigned to the Caribbean.

### Time in the Caribbean

There he successfully rescued the capture of a very valuable merchant ship carrying a load of gold back to the Iberian Peninsula from two pirate vessels. He sunk the first while the other was doing a boarding action on the Merchant ship, with great difficulty the other vessel's crew was surrounded on the deck of the Merchant ship. He grew bold with time, as he entered his 30s he wore his black and gold with honor, he liked to walk the deck during boarding actions, however he usually responded to pirates charging him with a blunderbuss to their skull. To those who survived his boarding actions Truylos commonly reads bible verses to them describing the immorality of their past choices. Truylos is even kind enough to allow those who renounce their fellow pirates, their actions, and their freedom to submit to arrest to survive. Those who deny Truylos a confession are left tied to the masts of their ship as lamp oil covers the deck, they burn with their vessels of sin, Satan may be the next thing to have them.

### Admiralty

De Velasco y Reggio was promoted to Commodore after 34 years of loyal service to the crown and the assistance in the capture and complete destruction of a Pirate Port. The fellow captains involved in the operation noted his presence as being willing to do anything to get his way, he was brutal to the Pirates that surrendered, and worse to those who didn't. Immolation was a favorite of his though he pioneered the concept of "blowing from a cannon" something his compatriots had never thought of before, some considered it a waste of resources, but showering a port with Pirate parts was an excellent method of intimidating the survivors into admitting their sins. After this action of striking the fear of God into pirates Felipe the Fifth, King of Spain allowed for the promotion of Velasco into the admiralty, and gave him two Ships of the Line one Truylos got to name himself. With knowledge of some ancient greek history he named it after the great ship of Aristotle, the "Syracuse", since then he remains in the Caribbean way past the standard age of retirement for those of his position, with no sign of stopping.