Edward Newgate

A.k.a. FannyBaws, a.k.a the Pirate King. Captain of Alestorm Pirates. The first man to see the other side of the New World. Legendary pirate.  

Personality

Newgate had a fearsome reputation. Stories abound of a 10-foot-tall man, bare-chested and clad in a tiger's pelt sacking towns single-handedly and killing sea monsters barehanded. Sailors who encountered him described him as a total monster, and surely must be part demon.   Those who knew Newgate in life would have laughed at such an insinuation. Newgate was known amongst his friends and crew as someone who refused to take any situation seriously. Whether it be during quiet nights in the Unsinkable II (a ship he named himself) or facing unspeakable odds, Newgate refused to not crack a smile. He responded to threats of execution with bold-faced laughter, adored pranks of any sort, and had precisely 0 fear of death. In fact, the less appropriate anyone around him found his jokes, the funnier they appeared to him.   Although he was amused by the stories depicting him as this evil demon, he was noted to have absolutely despised his title as Pirate King quoted as saying "Pirates aren't supposed to have a king! That's the fuckin' point ya clowns!"

History

  Rumours abound about his early life. Some say he was born aboard a pirate ship and never saw land until he was a grown man. Others say he was the son of Old Ed himself. Others still say he was the offspring of a giant and a particularly brave sailor.   In actuality, Newgate was a carefree boy with a hope and a dream, born by the name Amber Bakewell to a dwarvish mother and human father as the youngest daughter amid 7 older brothers, Newgate had a wanderlust that couldn't be contained. He was known for being even more rambunctious than any of his full dwarven older brothers, despite being much smaller than them at first. As he child, he used to sneak into his brothers' bedroom at night and cut portions of their beards off to stick to his own face, getting into a great many fights. His first time sailing was when, at the age of 9, he stowed away on an expeditious ship. By the time he was discovered, it was too late to turn around, and the young lad earned his keep aboard the ship. He eventually worked his way up to captain of his own ship, being hired for expeditions and trade routes at the young age of 17.   He was first declared a pirate at the age of 20, when he was sent to pick up a shipment of slaves and simply never returned with them. The idea of another person being kept in chains irked him, and he broke the law without a second thought, forming the Alestorm Pirates.   With the law no longer constraining him, Newgate immediately set eyes on seeing as much of the world as possible. When asked by his First Mate what name he wanted to go by, he reportedly merely shrugged and called himself 'Fannybaws' - literally the first word that came to his mind.   By all accounts Newgate was a charismatic captain and natural-born seafarer, but was also something of a handful to deal with, his reckless nature often getting the crew into trouble, such as the time he stole a Ryukatana from the grave of a famous Ryoukuni samurai, used it to remove his own breasts, before giving it back at the demand of Ryoukuni's Shogun. To his credit, he did send it back... along with said breasts. The Alestorm Pirates were no longer welcome in Ryoukuni after the fact.   Over the next few years, Newgate became an infamous name throughout the world. His total recklessness and lust for adventure lead him to charge fearlessly to places any sane pirate would be smart enough to avoid. He had no trouble butting heads and directly challenging the NWTC, and quickly became the most wanted man in history.   Eventually, after many years of sailing, Newgate finally arrived on the other side and was shocked to behold... nothing. The world just ends, an infinite waterfall pouring into the void. But by then Newgate had begun to learn things about how the world came to be like this, where the elves came from, and what happened during the Forgotten Age. He sailed clean over the edge, heedless of the danger, and arrived on the moon. There he beheld many wondrous things, a beautiful fey realm with gorgeous architecture that felt like it was abandoned yesterday. He found ships that could traverse the stars and for the first time realised how vast the world truly was. He also found a treasure that would grant him the ability to free the world from the NWTC, as well as how to many more starfaring ships. Alas, he could get none of them to work. There seemed to be some sort of mechanism required to use them, which he wasn't able to work out other than it required the cooperation of many of the Great Kingdom's descendants, something he didn't have access to. The journey had also taken its toll on him. Newgate's reckless endangerment had left his body battered, broken, and unable to survive another adventure.   But Newgate was determined. There are other dreamers like him in the world, people that would reach out for freedom if given the chance. He knew what he had to do. He disbanded the Alestorm Pirates and turned himself in to the NWTC. As he was hung from the gallows in his hometown of Delport, he played his masterstroke. He announced that his treasure laid far to the west and tossed his New World Key into the crowd before being hung, content that the ambitious dreamers like him in the crowd wouldn't rest until they saw what he once did.