Brandon Reaper

Brandon Reaper

 

“If they carry the name of Mog, they’ll find no harbor in my sea.”

  Race: Human   Born 596 PR   Birthplace: Myrrhan Expanse Ankana Kingdom Town, a small coastal trade hub on the southern edge   Current Title: Captain of the Devil’s Smile   Alignment: Chaotic Neutral   Status: wanted by multiple coastal authorities; feared by Moggite cultists   Notable Traits:   – Dark skin of the southern lands   – Sharp brown eyes, always scanning for danger or deceit   – Black windswept hair tied back with sharkbone beads   – Quick to smile, quicker to draw steel   – Known for: hating all Moggite followers, surviving a cult massacre, and marrying a Drow fugitive    

Blood on the Sand – The Fall of Myrrhan Expanse

  Brandon Reaper wasn’t born with that name. His true surname was lost the day Myrrhan Expanse burned.   Myrrhan Expanse was a quiet coastal town—humble docks, spice trade, wind-touched sails, and a temple to the sea gods. It was a peaceful place, until the Marfari Moggites came.   Followers of Mog, the Cannibal God, these zealots descended on Ankana in 608 PR like plague-tide, bringing fire, hooks, and boiling pits.   They butchered and devoured the townsfolk in a public ritual meant to “cleanse the coast.” Brandon, then just 12 years old, was hidden under fishing nets by his mother, who was caught and dragged away.   He watched through tears as they cooked her alive.   Brandon escaped the flames with a fishing dagger and a torn medallion of the sea-god Eryl. He was picked up days later by black-sailed scavengers—pirates who found a starving, silent boy in a smoking bay.  

Becoming Reaper

  Brandon never gave his true name again. He became “Reaper” on the tongue of pirates who saw the rage behind his silence, the boy who slit the throat of a first mate who tried to sell him in a slaver port.   He grew up on the waves, hardened by ship fights, betrayal, sea curses, and blood-price contracts.   By age 17, he’d:   Commandeered his first ship after gutting the captain during a mutiny.   Burned a known Moggite fishing village to cinders, leaving a carved warning: “No Feast Without Fire.”   Earned a bounty from the Kingdom of Albion, the Dominion of Goffik, and the Fenrisian Navy.   At age 20, he claimed a refitted ghostship from a drowned warlock’s fleet and renamed it:   The Devil’s Smile.   It became his floating vengeance, fast and haunted, feared in superstitious harbors.  

Deskyo De'Nempai – The Flame in the Deep

  One year into his captaincy, Brandon found something that made him pause.   A stranded shipwreck drifting near the obsidian reefs of the Shattered Shoals. On board was a lone Drow woman, bloodied, chained, and surrounded by corpses of slavers.   Her name was Deskyo De'Nempai, and she didn’t beg for help—she dared him to leave her.   Reaper cut her chains.   In the weeks that followed, she became a presence on his ship—quiet, sharp-eyed, and deadly with a sabre. She didn't question his hatred of the Moggites. In fact, she fed it, having been tortured by them during her escape from the underdark cult dungeons of Goffik.   By 618 PR, they were lovers.   By 620 PR, they were married beneath a burning sail, a pirate’s rite witnessed only by sea and steel.  

Today – The Pirate with Purpose

  Now, Brandon Reaper sails the sea not just for coin—but to hunt, burn, and dismember every trace of the Moggite cult he can find.   He has sunk four Moggite supply vessels.   Rescued enslaved villagers from cannibal enclaves in the Black Coast.   Tortured Moggite priests to death while carving prayers of the sea gods into their skin.   He is chaotic, yes. But not evil.   His crew is loyal, often rescued from cult oppression. They speak of Reaper’s quiet rage, his rare laughter with Deskyo, and his promise:   “Any who call Mog ‘Father’ will meet the Reaper, and he ain’t no god.”   Gear & Style   Weapon: Curved sabre named “Saltkiss”, once belonging to a sea-knight of Albion.   Armor: Leather sea-jacket lined with kraken-scale threading.   Trinkets: Sharkbone earring from a sea hag, Deskyo’s dagger on his belt, burned Moggite relics hung as mock trophies.  

Quote – Brandon Reaper

  “The sea takes what it wants. But I remember who lit the fire on land. And I’m still hunting them.”