Jon Merci

"**One more thing lad, you can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you. Live it, breathe it, cause to live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist**."

Quotes of Lord Osmund of Long Island to **Captain Jon Merci**.

## Lord Jon Umber

### Aliases

Ser Jacob of Seville (formerly)Captain Jon of Merci

### Relatives

Bonto of Merci; fatherArney of Merci; brother

Osmund of Long Island; kin

Donnel of Long Island; kin (deceased)

Meryn of Long Island; cousin

Kate Costayne; wife

Donnel Umber; son

Colette Umber; daughter

William Umber; son

## Physical description

### Eye color

Green, Pure Hazel (hidden)

**Lord Jon Umber** is from the Pacific Island, south of the **Pacific Sea**. He is the **Lord of Castle Umber**, and Head of House Umber. He is the vassal lord of the **Kingdom of Estonia**.

He has traveled the Pacific, Coral, and Andal Seas from slave to sellsword to pirate to privateer, and finally he would happened to be a part of one of the ruthless pirate battles where he earned himself a name that would haunt the pirates and royals for years to come, **Captain Jon Merci**.

## History

### Origins

His birth is unknown, only but that he is from the Pacific Isles, from where he was kidnapped when he was just a child and sold into slavery. He changed masters over the years from his childhood to his teenage life.

It is known when he was sold to his first master, he was wearing a silver chain linked to a central ring, carrying the a gem in the center of its rod, with a circular ring around it. Unknown to the slave traders of its meaning, he was sold at a low price considered a weakling, but was valued by his master.

### Childhood

After being sold into slavery, he was bought by a blacksmith who fed and raised the child as his own, naming him, **Jon**, after his deceased son. He was commonly called **Little Jon** in the town.

When he was five years old, the town in the Merci, came under pirate attack, and his adopted father was merciless killed in front of him, and Jon again was sold into slavery.

This time Jon was sold to a ruthless slave master of Lanpur, who beat boys like him often, and mistreated girls in his grip. He also used to take advantage of the virtue of the wives of the men who worked for him. So much so that, one day Jon came into a fight with him for taking the virtue of one of the girls that worked for him, and was whipped 20 times for it. This ended with him becoming even more stronger and sometime in 207 CE, he killed his master before he could rape one of the girls, for which he was wanted by the guards and the manslaves, as his master was not only an influential noble, but speaking against their master was considered punishment by death.

Jon was assisted by the girls of the dead slave master to escape to the ports where he hid in a merchant ship. He was discovered however by the **deckhand of the ship**, who recognized the boy, but instead chose to hid his truth, disguising him as a slave boy he bought at land. Jon went into the service of the deckhand, **his third master**.

### Sea Life

After serving his third master, a bond of more than a slave and master remained among the two, sometime in 209, the deckhand freed the boy, but Jon remained with the man he defined as his mentor and friend, and sailed with the merchant ship to Merci, where he reunited with adopted brother and adopted uncle. By this time, Jon became a sailor on the merchant ship and learned how to wield a sword. Although reuniting with his family, Jon continued to sail with the merchant travelers to Seville, where he parted his way and traveled to the **Scarlett House**, home to one of the slaver girls he used to know in Lanpur. In Scarlett House, Jon reunited with the slaver girls, most of whom came under the apprenticeship of **Madam Tuval**, with whom he also acquainted himself and joined Alto's Merchants, with whom he voyaged all over the **Pacific Sea**, **Coral Sea**, and the **Andal Sea**, traveling to the **Kingdoms of Tyrinia and Roma**, the **Umber States**, the **Free Cities**, the **Duchy of Portia**, the **North Isles**, the **State of Khans**.

Sometime in 216 CE, Jon became a pirate in the Coral Seas, where he various sellswords, pirates, knights, and exiled princes. During this time, Jon became a Pirate Captain, sailing the Coral Seas, and beyond to the Pacific Seas.

In 217 CE, the **State of Lanpur** became victim to plunders, and Jon assisted the state in exchange for free visits in Lanpur, one hundred slaves, two ketch ships, and a small residence by the eastern port (the one that was owned by ruthless slave master atop a hill), and along with his pirate allies, **Captain Jorah the Andal** and **Sea Captain Jacob of Cape Town**, defended the Lanpur Coast from plunder. After gaining all promised by the State of Lanpur, he freed the slaves and offered work at his residence, and formed his authority in the **South Balkan Bay**, owning a three ship armada. By the end of 218 CE, Captain Jon Merci as he was known became a Grand Captain of the pirates, owning an Armada of Five Ships, the Umber Sharks, with his main ship called the Umber Sails.