Bannon Morrisane

Bannon Morrisane, known sometimes as **Black Bannon** is a half-elf warlock.

## Description and Personality

Bannon is tanned and handsome, with braided black hair and a fierce beard. For his hair and his personality, he had been dubbed Black Bannon by his comrades in the Thrice-Damned. His nose is large and aquiline, and he wears a red-leather eyepatch over his left eye, which he claims he put out himself with a dagger. His face and neck are heavily scarred.

On the seas, Bannon was known for his fine coat of black velvet, which was destroyed in the storm that claimed his ship. He has replaced this with a greatcoat of black leather, over which rests a fur-lined coat of golden kraken embroidery; his father's *Cloak of Billowing*. He alternatively wears a baggy dark tunic which is heavily stained by sea-spray. He wears numerous pieces of jewellery, which he secured through plunder or his own craft.

Bannon portrays an unpredictable visage, though he internally holds a rigid code of conduct. Brazen and arrogant, he allows himself to speak without restraint to figures of social import, though he does not tolerate such impropriety in others. A skilled orator and manipulator, he prefers to take the lead in social encounters, and he usually takes the rear or middle positions in combat. He is not particularly religious and is flippant in regards to superstition, despite his obeisance of the tenets of Carcharodon, whom he views more as a guide than a divine lord.

Bannon is a native speaker of Common and Elvish, and has native proficiency in Draconic. He is also fluent in Goblin. He thinks of himself as a proficient investigator and arcanist. Bannon has voiced distaste for nearly every member of his extended family. He views his father Valentine as an absentee and a lesser captain than he, though he holds an inherited distaste for Howells, except for his cousin Faustus, whom he mildly likes. He is not particularly graceful.

## History

Bannon was born in 55 WD to Valentine al'Cullo and his elven concubine Eleanna Morrisane, quickly followed by siblings Roderick, Meilyr and Iulia. Bannon was a rebellious child, and was left to his own devices due to Valentine's long hours as a White Coat. His mother was rarely present, and once went missing with no return.

Discontent with his position in Howell Town, Bannon left home for Rydoon, where he became crew on the ship *Iconoclast.* Over the years, he took positions as on officer on numerous ships, including the *Morningstar,* its successor *Eveningstar* and the *Brave Brother.* Bannon's voyages were often followed closely by a return to Howell Town. Once, after returning to the town, he discovered that his entire family had gone to the winds following a heated exchange between Valentine al'Cullo and his half-brother, Fonteyne. Bannon, motivated by curiosity more than anything else, searched after his father and found that he had joined the pirate group known as the Thrice-Damned, which Bannon too became a member of.

Bannon spent decades as a well-respected member of the Thrice-Damned. Over the years, he had but one ship, *the Kinglet.* It was during this period that Bannon apparently put out his own eye, though for which purpose he would not say. On one of his piratical voyages, the clear skies were suddenly filled with black as a lashing storm came upon the *Kinglet* suddenly. Bannon called out into the storm, mocking it and the gods who summoned it, before from the deep he glimpsed a mass of teal-green scales. Lightning crashed and the water rose, and his ship was smashed to pieces.

Bannon awoke on dry land, having been saved by Dane the elf. The two would become travel companions as they made their way to Whittengrove, and thence to Amber Run.

## Recent Events

Bannon travelled to Oxresh to aid in the investigation of a mysterious incident in a mine which had caused the mine's closure and the disappearance of its entire workforce. Bannon struck up a friendship with the party, particularly with Ódóvir Jotunsson, and reunited with his cousin Faustus. The group investigated the mine, and discovered that a Remorhaz was the culprit. Bannon and the others engaged it in battle, and Ódóvir died. Bannon carried Ódóvir's corpse from the mine and created a burial mound with the help of Elinor. The group would later return to the site, where they found Ódóvir returned from the dead.

Bannon later went to Thornwatch following reports of a warband amassing power in the disputed territory of the Bristlebacks. To the aid of the Hollow Concord, the party ventured deep into the Bristlebacks and discovered the captured outpost of Black Scar Redoubt. The party infiltrated the Redoubt and found it overrun with cultists and gnolls, all of which the party slaughtered. Underneath the outpost, the party discovered a magically trapped door, which they bypassed. In a secure office, they encountered a tiefling sorceress, who Bannon struck up a conversation with. Persuaded to leave the Redoubt before the Rydooni forces arrived, the sorceress gave her name as Makaria and decided to teleport away. Certain members of the party made to apprehend her out of fear that she was a cultist herself. Bannon aided Makaria in the de-escalation of the situation and her subsequent escape.

Some time after the excursion to Black Scar, Bannon would use his vast wealth to construct Kinglet's Hall, a vast manor house with an open-roofed tower at its top and deep dungeons below.

## Quotes

"You were a good Asgardian, Ódóvir. It's a shame that you were such a shit man."

—Bannon to Ódóvir following the latter's death.

"Hey, princess."

—Bannon to Makaria