Ki Lon

Ki Lon is an NPC introduced in Arc 10. He is a former pirate king and member of the necromancer's guild in Malum.

## Description

Ki Lon is a human man, and 45 years old during Arc 10. He has very nice and smooth skin, thanks to the skin care products of Thalia Ironmeadow.

He is a pirate captain, former pirate king, and known as the first ever pirate king that retired before death. His ship is incredibly fast and has been sailing through the Astral Sea and across various planes. While Ki Lon has a bit of magic, it is not arcane, and he doesn't understand much about arcane magic, either. The ship magically travels across the realms and handles the difficult details, while he "just sort of get[s] along" with it. As of Arc 10, however, the ship seems to be stuck, and no longer lets him leave the Material Plane.

On his ship, most of the crew are technically undead in some way or another, and during the night, a skeleton crew runs the ship. During the day, these skeletons mostly keep under deck, as to not scare people. This, however, leads to living quarters not really being a thing on the ship, as no one needs to sleep or live.

He is an old friend and business partner of both Count Dion and Queen Luminessa. He joins the centennial meeting of the necromancer's guild as an invited guest, although his RSVP got lost in a raid on the other side of the world. Although he is not a necromancer himself, many of his friends and regular customers are, and he claims to be waiting for one of them to figure out a way for him to live longer.

Generally, he is not willing to get into trouble that is above his "pay grade".

## Backstory

As the captain of a ship that can sail across the planes, Ki Lon is tasked with procuring various items for various buyers over the decades, most of them necromancer friends of his. He does so often at great danger for himself.

## Character Arc

As their friend, Ki Lon picks up Count Dion and Queen Luminessa on his way to the centennial meeting of the necromancer's guild, and makes sure to keep them entertained while they are his guests. They repeatedly ask him to consider becoming pirate king again, as the new one is not as good as him, but he refuses, claiming that he is tired of dealing with all the people. Luminessa tells him that he used to be more fun, related to him not wanting his crew to look to closely at Tippy, but he just says that he now has attachments.

At the meeting, Ki Lon uses the power outage after the show and tell to go into Tiffany's office and find his record book. He finds various documents that prove that Tiffany, over many years and from various vendors to avoid suspicion, bought concerningly high amounts of magical ingredients. Later, he shows his findings to Dion and Luminessa. Additionally, he admits that while he enjoys being the captain of his ship, it does get boring from time to time, and he misses being pirate king, but he cannot get back to it, and is stuck as captain. At the moment, he is stuck in general, as his ship no longer lets him leave the Material Plane. He has spoken to wizards and even prayed to a god or two about it, but it seems like an impossible situation for him.

He joins the Arc 11 party on their exploration of the basement, trying to find out Tiffany's secret, but takes a few steps back as he realises how dangerous the glyph room truly is.

After the events of Arc 11, he offers his help to Bishop and Marigold. During Ranch Sweet Ranch, the two of them and many of the party guests sail towards the Westberry Ranch on Ki Lon's ship to fix the rifts of darkness.

## Trivia

* He likes playing Skeleton Wars, which is similar to BattleBots. It is imported from far away.