Cornilis de Roiter

Cornilis de Roiter was born in Amsterdam, in mid-seventeenth-century Holland. He was raised in a wealthy noble family, with strong ties to the navy. When he was 16, he joined up and served aboard the frigate Draak, upon which he achieved the rank of Midshipman. Near the end of the Third Anglo-Dutch war, he served on a 3rd-rate warship, the Amsterdam, where he served as a Gunnery Officer.

At the end of the conflict, he had gained the rank of Lieutenant, and settled down for a few years. After serving his tour with the Navy, he picked up gunsmithing, developing a high degree of skill for it, and pursued his passion for weaponry. He attended university, and lived a very comfortable life. It was also during this time he acquired land in the Netherlands and the East Indies. But soon, he longed for the sea again. Cornilis once again enlisted in the Navy, using his wealth to buy his way into the rank of Captain, where he was given command over the 30 gun frigate Prinz Willem.

For four years, Cornilis de Roiter protected Dutch ships and hunted pirates in the East Indies and the Indian Ocean. It was also during this time his resentment for cannibalism and “savages” developed. After giving his crew a week of shore leave on an uncharted island, they were attacked by the island’s natives, who killed and ate most of his crew. Cornilis managed to escape by fooling the cannibal chief, and bombarded the island with cannons before sailing the ship, severely under crewed, to the nearest friendly port. Soon after, he returned to the Netherlands, where he found that his parents and sister had died of smallpox.

After a few years spent managing his finances and mourning, Cornilis tried his hand at the sea again. He personally paid for the 38 gun frigate Zeelandia, his last and favorite ship. He worked for the Dutch, until he found a better deal with the French. With his family having been on good terms with the French governor of Haiti, he received a Letter of Marque and began raiding British and Spanish commerce in the Caribbean. However to this day, he refuses to attack or threaten a ship flying the Dutch flag. Another of his duties was to hunt down pirates in the Caribbean, a job which he will pridefully remark on, before taking it back while remembering his company.

He worked for the French until he arrived at Puerto Dorado. From what Cornilis can recall, the Zeelandia was caught up in a storm when the aft mast snapped, and he was hit in the head and sent overboard by one of the yards. He washed up on the Isle, and posed as an ambassador for a nearby island, but eventually dropped the title, finding the subterfuge to be wholly unnecessary among these folks. Cornilis still internally fears that he might be killed for serving in the Navy of a European nation or or executing several pirates. But he now serves as the Quartermaster of The Bleeding Rose, and keeps his Letter of Marque on his person at all times, careful not to let any of his fellows see it for fear that they will accuse him of being a double agent. He himself has not yet decided whether or not he is, but he serves the Isle with fervor and joy all the same.

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