Edvin

Edvin was born in France to a very poor family. Like many in his position, he had few options for fortune, but craved it nonetheless. So he signed on with the French Navy when they began enlisting privateers, and he found himself a deckhand aboard the Alexandaire, a freshly commissioned ship that was outfitted with all the latest and greatest technology of the time. In this vessel, he and his crewmates were set loose upon the Spanish, and they took and sunk many of their ships and raided their settlements in the New World. On a return trip to their own home port, they even banded together with other such privateers and raided a city in Spain itself, making off with many riches.

This proved to be their downfall, though, when the Spanish retaliated in outrage at this direct affront by working with the British to hunt them down and enact violent justice on them. They were ambushed when they returned to the Caribbean, and a British man-o-war forced their surrender, then sank the ship after taking all hands prisoner. Hauled to Kingston to be tried and hanged as outlaws, Edvin devised for himself a neck brace that was miraculously undetectable by the gaolers, and was wearing it when they threw the switch. His neck remained intact and he could breathe quite easily, but he gave some kicks and chokes to heighten the illusion of a slow death. When the show ended and they moved to take him down from the gallows, he seized his moment and made a break for it, hauling through the prison while dodging musket fire and rescuing those of his crew that he could, before they were at last overrun and forced to flee.

They made their way to the civilian port and commandeered the first ship they found, a sorry thing with no armaments of any sort. Pursued as they were by the British soldiers pouring from the fort and hot on their heels, they knew they could not escape aboard this vessel, as they would be shot down by the behemoth of a man-o-war that was docked down the way, alerted by the bells clanging at the prison. So they quickly raided the crew quarters of the sloop, whose crew was thankfully all ashore, and disguised themselves with the clothes they found as deckhands of the vessel. Their subterfuge worked, as none of the soldiers pursuing them recognized them, and when they had passed at Edvin’s falsified directions further down the docks, they resolved to wait until nightfall, and outfit the merchant vessel with guns from the man-o-war. A mad, desperate plan, but one the crew were nonetheless hysterically optimistic about putting into motion.

So when dark came, they silently cleared the docks of the watch officers between the sloop and the man-o-war, and with utmost stealth (and surely some kind of divine intervention), they successfully made off with enough cannon to fully arm the small vessel, and then set the larger vessel’s powder stores alight, just for good measure. The resulting explosion rocked the entire island, it seemed, and in the furious confusion, Edvin and his mates made to sea in the sloop unaccosted and unscathed.

Now possessed of a vessel and most of his old crew, Edvin took the helm of their newly outfitted sloop, and they engaged themselves in true piracy, unaffiliated with any sovereign government anymore, and eager to keep it that way. They enjoyed success at this for a good spell, but soon fell afoul of pirates themselves. Captain Doyle Laurent of the Bleeding Rose ran them down one day and boarded them before they could even load their stolen cannons, and demanded their surrender. Mad with their success, and just mad in general, they refused and set upon the offending crew. The crew of the Bleeding Rose were no slouches, however, and Edvin’s crew were all cut down or subdued in short order. Only he remained opposing them in the end, and Laurent was impressed by the lad’s bravado and tenacity. Explaining to him that he would hate to lose such a fiery lad to his own hubris, Doyle offered to take him into his service. The mad glint in Edvin’s eye dimmed a touch at this, and a rare moment of reason saved his life. He agreed to serve with this fierce new crew, provided that the mates who remained alive were set free unharmed. Laurent was true to his word, and they set them loose on the coast of North America.

Edvin remained aboard, a bit salty at having lost his command but nonetheless impressed by this new crew’s prowess and plunderlust. In time, he gave himself truly into Captain Doyle’s service, and was made a Deckhand aboard the Bleeding Rose. He serves still to this day, content with his lot, and calling upon his mad hubris only when it serves him and his crew, and the Isle.

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