The Briny Rats

The Briny Rats were a smuggling outfit founded by Cynthia Silvers, made up of three exceptional career criminals Cynthia knew via her grandfather, Garin Dul-Sansiska, and seventeen young orphans and urchins Cynthia molded and raised as though they were her family. Their smuggling specialty was in selling counterfeit drow equipment, namely spidersilk and dreadplate and dreadweave, in Cynthia's effort to eventually have the criminal world kill itself using the counterfeit items against one another and making a whole lot of money while she fucked over the horrible and the monstrous.

They didn't, and instead they rallied around Requiem during this time, Cynthia was offered to join their ranks as an officer due to her reputation, she declined, and told her crew if they wanted to join Requiem, they'd do it without flying her banner. They ganged up on her, attempting at first to convince her, then just telling her that she was free to go running back home to her life as a noble, or better yet they could ransom her back. This resulted in Cynthia's former best friend and first mate getting her head snapped back and her nose broken in a brutal headbutt by her captain. A fight ensued, and eventually when the first mate regained conciousness, and half the crew lay with broken bones and bloodied beaten up bodies form their former captain, she had the crew throw Cynthia into the hideout's old weapon storage and lock it behind her while they escaped, with one member throwing in some burning lumber for good measure.

Cynthia would survive the attempt to kill her, but for the grace of her enigmatic Uncle Divan, the Briny Rats would dissolve and be given cushy positions in Requiem's navy, and all would be forgotten until the recovered Cynthia teamed up with Zara Moon under the special pirate hunting team known as Maelstrom. This outfit was a special team founded by Garin to hunt and kill the most troublesome of Requiem's forces, and Cynthia and Zara were placed as a headhunting duo and given free liberty to hunt down all of Cynthia's former crew. They started at the weakest and worked their way up, and while Cynthia felt some pangs of familial love for what were basically her boys and girls, they had killed their captain that day and she was the ghost taking them all out for it.

When it came time to kill the last three, her former first mate, quartermaster, and doctor, it was a brutal affair, but between herself and Zara, they managed to take them and the crew they were a part of down. Cynthia would headbutt her former first mate so hard she snapped her neck this time around due to the nerve tonic she was juiced up on. This would later be ascribed to why she could so fully dismiss her feelings of familial connection to what had essentially been a family she had made for herself, due to the mental effects of the drug it was hard for her to think straight on an emotional level, adding to the brutality of this chapter of her life.

With this all record of the Briny Rats faded, and now there's only an old banner that hangs forgotten in Cynthia's quarters within the Barbed Quills home base, only Zara and Draken are aware of its relevance and neither like to bring up Cynthia's past unless relevant, so it remains a forgotten piece of the woman's past