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Captain Alexia
Legacy Name: Captain Alexia

The

Darkmatter Archan
Owner:

PookaWitch

Age: 10 years, 1 month, 1 week

Born: March 25th, 2014

Adopted: 10 years, 1 month, 1 week ago

Adopted: March 25th, 2014

Statistics

Level: 60
Strength: 86
Defense: 10
Speed: 10
Health: 10
HP: 10/10
Intelligence: 139
Books Read: 139
Food Eaten: 0
Job: Lookout in the Crows Nest

(Shown in her lion/sphinx form that she relishes.)

Ambitious | Adventurous | Generous | Scholarly | Aspirant
.: Pirate Queen of the Zweilund Islands :.

Species: Darkmatter Archan (Arrrrr-chan)
Race: Brechtur
Bloodline: Anduiras (great)
Class: Pirate Queen (Fighter/Rogue/Dread Pirate/Legendary Captain)
Job: Queen of the Zeilund Islands / Captain of the Ransom
Alignment: Chaotic Good (borderline Chaotic Neutral)
Religion: Nera and Waukeen
Favourite Food: Soft cheeses or heavy fruit/rum cakes

Age: Adult
Birthday: March 25th (unknown to her)

Fur: grey with darker grey stripes
Hair black
Eyes: brown
Skin Tone: pale
Forms: human (true form), lion/sphinx

Parents: unknown
Siblings: unknown
Husband: Captain Karen (secretly married)
Offspring: Riley and Alek (fraternal twins from different fathers)

Ship: the Lion's Share (Galleon)

Personality

A vulgar tongue and rowdy personality hides the sharp mind of a plotting, driven, ambitious woman.Alexia is nearly always plotting and planning, her life is set up in 'stages' that she sets out for herself, each a new, and more impressive goal that she strives to meet. Her treasure-lust tends to be a cover for her strong devotion to her country and people. Those who pay attention will notice that a very large share of her acquired plunder goes back towards the community to keep the people happy and well cared for.

Powers/Abilities: Alexia is a highly skilled sailor and captain. Although she may not initially seem the part she's an aspirant who constantly strives to better herself. Due to her life of thievery on the high seas she's a strong swimmer, skilled navigator, a cartographer and charismatic leader. She knows a smattering of shipwright skills and how to slip bonds and chains. Through her planar travels she discovered and was trained in black powder weapons learning both how to use and smith flintlock pistols and cannons. She's learned how to pick locks and bypass traps, a by-product of her illicit profession.

(Special) Bloodline: In Alexia's home world the nobles are blessed with powers inherited from long dead gods. Alexia was fortunate (or un-fortunate?) to have inherited the bloodline of Anduiras, the god of honor, goodness and paladins. The canny could see how this has effected her in small ways such as remaining (mostly) good within a chaotic and often evil society and her tireless struggle to re-form her inherited kingdom to higher ideals.
Bloodline Powers: - Animal Empathy (minor) lions, courage (great), heightened ability (minor) strength, protection from evil (major)

Likes: reading, card and dice playing, thwarting Karen, lions, 'sea' lions (mer lions), the sea, treasure, adventuring, her people

Dislikes: the Muuden Navy, being thwarted by Karen, ill omens (she's very superstitious), when her subjects get too out of control

Merits: She's brilliant and constantly seeks to better herself and her people. Alexia can also be quite a 'party girl', knowing how to really have fun. Very goal-oriented and determined. She's frequently strategized numerous steps ahead and often has 'plans within plans' for most situations.

Flaws: Even with all of her planning Alexia still tends to fall back on impulsive ideas. She's rather conniving and isn't above petty lies to get what she wants. It takes an effort for Alexia to speak politely. She's often confused about how to deal with people from outside of her social structure, and through thoughtlessness has more then often wound up hurting those close to her.

History

'Adventure seeker on an empty street,
Just an alley creeper, light on her feet
A young fighter screaming, with no time for doubt
With the pain and anger can't see a way out,
It ain't much I'm asking, I heard her say,
Gotta find me a future move out of my way.'
~ I Want It All (Queen)

A Rise to Power

Alexia knows little to nothing about her birth parents, she somewhat remembers something about being on a ship. While still very young, and she doesn't quite remember what happened, she wound up living in the Zweilund Islands... a dangerous pirate kingdom. Then she found herself being raised in the local brothels as a servant by women of the 'profession'.

Alexia could see the trap these 'professional' women wound up in and didn't wish for that sort of future. Her bloodline abilities were starting to manifest and with it she became bolder, bold enough to strike forth and try to get a position on one of the local ships.

Alexia was able to become a cabin girl, working diligently until she eventually rose in the ranks as a skilled sailor and was able to charm her varying superiors to keep teaching her the skills she wanted to learn to succeed. Eventually she was becoming renowned enough as a navigator that she was able to gain employment on the ship of Black Adara... the lover of the lord of the realm and nefarious pirate slaver. Alexia despised having to work in such a trade with such an evil woman... but she had ambitions and plans.

It wasn't long before Alexia was able to gain the favour of Adara, constantly holding back her disdain for the woman. Through her she eventually was conversing with the Pirate King of the Zeilunds and gaining the respect and favour of both. It took time and scheming but she was eventually able to arrange for their deaths through her own navigation at sea. She considered the world to be a better place without a crazed mage who raised armies of undead, and his diabolic slaver of a lover.
In her lands it's those with the inherited blood of the old dead gods that the land, also so imbued, chooses to rule.... and with their passing the Zweilund Islands bonded with Alexia.
Finally she could start re-forming her home.

Reforming a Realm

'Better stand tall when they're calling you out
Don't bend, don't break, baby, don't back down'
~ It's My Life (Bon Jovi)

For years Alexia had to carefully, and sometimes brutally, change the way her kingdom was run. She showed generosity towards her people that the former rulers ignored and tried to win over who she could with money and promises of more wealth. Those refusing to accept her changes were weeded out... either through politics, allies, or at the end of her cutlass. Slavery was abolished in her realm, and she put forth laws of less cruelty with the acquisition of booty and ships, all with the public reasoning that it would ease the attacks of the Royal Navy against them.

It was a tough road, turning a realm of cutthroats, slavers, murderers and thieves into something better.. something she could be proud of. Mind you, she was still running a kingdom of pirates and thieves, but tirelessly worked to have the laws changed and enforced to stop slavery, accept surrenders, ethical treatment of captives held for ransom and to honor deals made. Although she brought forth these rules with the reasoning that it would ease the Navy's assaults on these pirates to focus more on other, more brutal, pirate kingdoms, truthfully it was her trying to bend her realm closer to her own morals.

Eventually she was confident enough in her enforcers and the growing change in her realm that it was time to deliver on her other promises to her people... more wealth. It was time to start adventuring again.

Adventure & Riches

'Tomorrow's getting harder make no mistake
Luck ain't even lucky
Got to make your own breaks'
~ It's My Life (Bon Jovi)

Alexia took her ship out for plunder and adventure. The Royal Navy had more pressing troubles with a neighboring pirate kingdom known for ruthless cruelty and paid less attention to her ships. It was during this time that she assaulted another pirate ship from a realm they were unfriendly with they discovered that the ship had a captive held for ransom. Delphine Aglondier, the daughter of a noble and a priestess of Neira (the goddess of the sea) had been on route to her arranged marriage when the ship had assaulted and killed her crew, keeping her for ransom. Alexia saw this as a windfall and was going to keep the priestess for ransom as well, until an odd thing happened and the priestess begged Alexia to not take her home. She had only kept her virtue with the previous ship due to the value she could fetch if sold back to her family, but she quickly saw the difference with Alexia's ship compared to the previous one. Delphine (quickly nicknamed 'Prissy' due to her 'prissy ways and appearance') was repulsed with the idea of marrying the man she was betrothed to and would rather join a pirate crew and be thought lost at sea then have to go through with her nuptials. Alexia eventually was won over and the priestess joined her crew as the ship's cleric.
The crew took quickly to Prissy who's prayers brought good winds and calmed an angry sea. She was viewed as 'good luck' on the ship, and proved to be good fortune for them indeed since she made their plundering and adventuring far easier.

Alexia was able to live up to her promises to her people as her adventuring on the seas and coastal areas proved very lucrative. She had to work to keep her chosen crew, not due to lack of loyalty but due to their shares of the booty making them wealthy enough that they wished to retire. The future looked good.

Captain Karen

'Why do you love me?
Why do you love me?
Why do you love me?
It's driving me crazy!'
~ Why Do You Love Me (Garbage)

During her time of wealth and good fortune Alexia was called to one of the provinces in her realm. The reagent of that land was offering her a present along with his tithing... his ship had been attacked by a ship of the Royal Navy and captured it's captain... a man named Karen. (It's actually a rare European male name.)
Karen (who had a blood ability to look at somebody and know them, often better then they knew themselves) took one look at Alexia and loved what his power showed him. She made him walk the plank within swimming distance of a friendly city, and before he jumped he swore that she would be his.
Months later he returned with a fleet of ships to try and take her pirate island kingdom, she won the battle and left the men afloat with buoyant flotsam to wait for a rescue ship.

This went on for YEARS with many battles, spies in both kingdoms. At one point Alexia dressed as a noblewoman to crash a noble party that Karen attended to distract him while her men stole away his newly christened galleon. (har har!) But neither could truly get the upper hand on each other. Karen never let up on the idea that he would marry the Pirate Queen, his visions of capturing her to humiliate her through the streets of the capital city, and taking her as his 'prize'. (so unrealistic)

Planar Travel

'A gathering of angels appeared above my head
They sang to me this song of hope, and this is what they said
They said come sail away, come sail away
Come sail away with me
Come sail away, come sail away
Come sail away with me'
~ Come Sail Away (Styx)

Just like the sea, life rarely stays the same for long before it changes. Alexia never would have expected the huge upheaval her fate was about to take.

A stranger came to her island, dressed in robes woven with golden thread and wearing jewels and wealth only a barmy fool would flaunt in front of a realm of pirates. Yet the man carried himself in a way, and spoke with such diplomacy that it kept him safe from harm and thievery... he approached Alexia's Fest Hall that served as a Palace and requested private audience. She retired to a private chamber so he could speak, and if she already thought he was a barmy fool, now she wondered if he was stark raving mad.

He spoke of coming here from another plane, a dimension somewhat similar to hers but different. He spoke of travel to the heavens and hells, of a marketplace of infinite size and a circular city atop of a spire of unending height.
He was a priest, and at one point a herald for Waukeen, a goddess in his realm, a goddess of wealth. Many years before, during a time of troubles, his goddess had vanished and was believed to be dead, but he found clues that she wasn't dead but had lost her powers and was held captive in a realm of Hell. He had searched, speaking with diviners and prophets of all sorts, to find those who could free his goddess. He was collecting a group from varying places, and he was shown visions that she would be the one to eventually free his goddess.

After giving her instructions, and a magical necklace made from coins with symbols of his goddess that allowed communication at a far distance, even over other planes. When she was ready to leave she should use the necklace to contact him, and he would arrive with a planeswalker who could open the way between planes for her.
Alexia got her affairs in order and left on the strangest adventure she had ever been on.

In the land of Toril, where the former priest brought her to, she met with Rilrae Pharn a dark elven ranger of a hunting and dancing goddess Eilistraee, and Mythal Magicstar a clerical mage of a goddess of magic Mystra (or as she kept saying 'Mystral', speaking of how she was from an ancient empire and tossed forward in time).

(I've been typing for hours... I'll finish this up some other time. - Pooka)