Characteristics
Physical features
Marius is a skinny, handsome, half-elven man with blonde hair cut short on the sides and a curl of hair that flops down on his forehead.
Mental traits
Marius is a roguish and opportunistic individual with a reputation for landing himself in trouble. He is a pretty talented cook. He is also very concerned about his appearance, and is self-conscious about his hair and teeth.
History
Marius worked as an intermediate between the shady sailors, pirates and the
Pig Butcher, a figure of illegal exchanges in the hobgoblin empire.
He received a mission to collect a crystal, a crystal
Marjani Flintwill thougth was the clovnen crystal. When Marius meet with the Captain who ordered the delivery to apologize for the failed mission and give back the gold, marjani attacked the ship, kidnapping Marius and killing the other sailors.
Marius attempted to meet with the crew and captain who ordered this delivery, but his meeting was interrupted when Marjani attacked the boat, and proceeded to kill most of the crew, and kidnap Marius. Tied to the mast, Marius thougth he was prmised to a certain
Death.
Marius remained tied to the mast for a while, falling asleep there. He was woken up by
Orly, who questioned him and learned that he never intended to go on the ship, and just wanted to meet with the captain to give back the money he was hired with, since he was unable to retrieve the Crystals. Marius was later freed and allowed to walk within the ship, though Marjani let him know that he was stuck with them.
Marius had no alternative but to remain aboard The Opium as Marjani sailed through the southern seas in pursuit of their own objectives, which led them to tortuga island. Marius expressed his unease as they arrived on the island, not fully knowing where they were. Marjani pointed out that he had become "a pirate" and should toughen up, suggesting pirate names for him to use.
The cloven crystal war
late 1136 AD
The
Cloven Crystals — ancient seals that bound the mighty
Tromokratis — had fallen one by one. Destroyed or stolen by the
Kraken King’s pirates, each loss brought his monstrous reign closer. Only one crystal remained, the final barrier to his dominion over the seas. It was embedded within Queen
Morganyn herself, who stood as the last line of defense.
Desperate to break that final seal, the Kraken King rallied the Longstraw Pirates. Over twenty ships, crewed by hundreds of raiders, surged toward
Coralia — the
Triton capital — intent on tearing the last crystal from the queen’s body. Foreseeing the coming storm, Morganyn dispatched her warriors to meet the enemy at the surface. Within Coralia, the city’s defense fell to their
Plasmoid allies.
As arcane fire and magical volleys rained from pirate mages, the sea boiled with war. But not every pirate served the Kraken King faithfully. A rogue ship — The
Garrot — used the chaos to slip its own infiltrators into Coralia.
The battle raged for hours. Triton forces, hard-pressed on the surface, were forced to retreat and reinforce the palace, turning back Katarina’s assault from within. But their withdrawal allowed the Kraken King's pirates to dive beneath the waves, setting a new plan in motion. His mages gathered for a ritual — calling forth dragon turtles to shift the tide in his favor.
When news of this reached Queen Morganyn, she wavered. With no way to hold Coralia and no reinforcements in sight, she made a painful decision: she would flee, drawing the fight away from her people to buy them time.
Under cover of night, Morganyn, her advisors, and
Wellan slipped from the palace. First disguised as drifting jellyfish, they then polymorphed into sharks to escape undetected. Their destination: The
Garrot — the only ship that might still carry them to safety.
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