Ulric Stonetree

Ulric Pyke is the current Captain of the Warship Revenant.

## History:

### Early Years

Ulric was born on a stormy day in the year 63 AC. To this day he doesn't know who his mother and father were. His best guess is that his father was a raider that died at sea and his mother was a barmaid.

Upon his birth he was left in the care of local tavern in Pyke. He was raised there just long enough to be able to speak and walk and then was sent off.

Ulric stowed away on a ship that was docked in Pyke and waited till they were at sea to reveal himself. The ship's captain, Theon Stonehouse, ordered the boy tossed into the sea. Ulric fought the waves until his already tapped strength gave in. No one on board the Revenant that day knows why Theon pulled the boy from the water. All they would get from him was that the Drowned God spoke to him in that moment and said he was worth saving.

### Finding a Name

Theon ordered Ulric to be taught the ways of being a Ironborn sailor. Word quickly passed through the ship on how quick of a study the boy was.

In 73 AC Ulric was among the crowd of Ironborn that witnessed as Torgon Greyjoy ascended to the Driftwood Chair. After the coronation the crew of the Revenant returned to the sea and continued to pillage small villages and ships. It was during this time that Ulric killed his first man and bedded his first woman.

He continued to quickly raise in the ranks of the ship as the Captain took him in as a son. Some of the other crew members were uneasy of this notion but Ulric quickly ended those worries by continuing to prove himself.

During a raid on a small village Ulric found a shield with an unknown sigil on it. When he took it to Stonehouse the captain told him it belonged to an extinct Iron Island house, House Stonetree. Ulric kept the shield taking its sigil as his own. The crew would continue to give him a hard time saying no matter what he tried he would always be a bastard.

### War for the Seadragon Throne

In the year 79 AC tales of a civil war began to cross the waters. Normally staying out of the "conflicts of greater men", the crew of the Revenant were surprised to find out that they would be joining the war to side with King Greyjoy.

They fought under the command of Andrik Harlaw at Old Wyk. There they experienced many victories but it was soon clear that the tide was turning. After one of the King's larger houses turned on him, he was killed by Lodos Drumm. When Harlaw bent the knee, Captain Stonehouse did as well. They sailed with the force back to Pyke and watched as the new King, Veron Greyjoy, bent the knee to Drumm as well.

In the years that followed raids grew in prominace under Drumm's leadership and the Revenant took full advantage. They returned to their old practice of staying out of the affairs of "stronger men."

### Captain Stonetree

In the year 89 AC the Iron Islands lost another King as Lodos Drumm died while raiding. More important to Ulric though he lost the closest thing he had to a father. Theon Stonehouse died of sickness while out at sea. He named Ulric to be his replacement. Only one man aboard the ship questioned the decision and Ulric sent him, dead, into the sea after battle of steel. Under Ulric command the ship held firm a span of riches and plunder. Gone was the small bastard boy that had boarded the ship many years ago...rebprn in his place, through the sea and salt, was Ulric Stonetree, Captain of the Revenant.

### Current Events

Like the War of the past word reached The Revenant of a possible civil war on the seas. This time choosing to avoid the conflict the crew stayed south and stuck to raiding smaller targets. After news of Sigrun Blacktyde naming herself Queen not long after the Dragon King had reclaimed the Islands under his control, Ulric chose to return to Pyke.

## Family

Ulric has no family. Only the crew of this ship.

## Meta

Attributes: Bellicose and Strategic

Skills: Naval Warfare, Navy Tech, One Handed, Privateering, Counterfeit, Astronomy, Shipbuilding

Aptitude: Admiral