Howdy, been chatting in the convo and figured I'd post up my Character Card here. Sorry it's so detailed, I like to give a bit of background to the character, to establish his history...
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Name: Antoine (Hawksley) StrongKnot, Captain
Race: Breton
Gender: Male
Class: Sailor/Pirate/fighter/mage
Born: 4E171 Wayrest, High Rock. (that's 30yrs old)
Looks: 6' tall, broad shoulders, lean, trim body, tanned and weathered skin with salt and peppered dark hair and matching short neatly trimmed beard with blue eyes.
Armor/Clothing:
- Tall dark worn leather boots that came over his knees with a buckle just below the knees and if one looked carefully, a dagger could be seen tucked into his right boot. - Dark leather pants that looked smooth fitting, well worn, but not too tight.
- Long dark leather vest that hangs to mid thigh with lots of buttons down the front with button holes of a contrasting white or maybe a faded goldish color that was buttoned to mid chest.
- Under the vest, a White collared shirt with loose puffy sleeves that laces half way down the chest.
- Over the vest is worn a dark red sash around his waist, and over that is a thick leather belt that has a dagger on the back of his right hip, a pouch off his left hip and one of his two cutlass' attached in a scabbard at the right hip. Across one shoulder and hanging to his left waist is another thick belt with the second of the two matching cutlass'in a scabbard. Hanging from his other shoulder to the opposite waist was a large leather satchel, tucked behind the first cutlass.
- Over all this he wears a long jacket of heavy linen canvas material in a dark red color matching the sash he wore. There were button holes in black trim and black button running the lenght of the jacket, but it was obvious from looking at it that he rarely buttoned it shut. It had fancy black swirling stich work around the cuffed sleaves and also as trim around the hem of the jacket.
- He had small gold hoop earings in each ear and a necklace with the symbol of Kynareth
- He likes to smoke from a small wooden pipe.
Weapons/Magic: Dual Cutlass' (stamina drain/shock damage and stamina drain/fear), Ebony Bow, Dual Bound Swords if he looses a cutlass in battle.
History:
Worked the docks with his family until he was 17 (4E188) and the corsairs raided the city, destroying the Dark Brotherhood Santuary in the process.
His parents were killed during the raid and he was taken hostage. Soon after though he was pressed into work aboard one of the corsair ships.
The corsairs taught him how to sail and fight, both with sword and ship, to navigate using the sun, the moons and the stars, whre all the good hunting grounds were and the best ports to sell their loot and have some fun. He could've made a name for himself as a fearsome pirate and clever sailor, but he didn't let on how good he'd gotten. He was determined to kill the corsairs for the death of his family.
He escaped the corsairs one dark and stormy night on the Abecean Sea by killing the captain and stealing his ship. He brought the ship to Anvil on the coast of Cyrodiil, but not before stopping at an isolated coast of Summerset ilse and stranding those corsairs and sailors that didn't want to remain on his ship. He was twenty-five when he arrived in Anvil and over the next five years, Captain Antoine (Tony to his friends) Strong-Knot became a fearsome, strong sailor that some called a pirate and a thief. Employing all kinds of sailors, but what made him the scourge of the seas was his use of Mages, especially those adept in Destruction magic and Illusion, because those could reach long range damage and instill fear in his enemies while calming with courage to his own sailors. He learned a lot from those Mages and his Breton blood made him a natural at it too.
The Imperial Navy and the Empire let him roam freely about the Abecean Sea as long as he didn't raid their shipping and only kept his fight with the corsairs or other races. Which Antoine was more than willing to abide by, at least until he ran out of corsairs to fight and his crew started rumors of mutiny because they weren't getting rich anymore. So, he started taking ships belonging to the East Empire Company and soond the Imperial Navy was hunting him, but the crew got rich and were happy, until one fateful day when he attacked and successfully took a small convoy of Altmer ships heading to the Imperial City. The Imperial Navy and the Aldmeri Dominion Navy were waiting at Leyawiin, hidden by some powerful Elven magic until his attack was over and they sprung their trap. Barely managing to escape he fled east and north into a fog bank that was so thick even he was afraid to go in it, but he did, he needed to escape and save his crew and his ship. After a day of dead reckoning and careful watch, they emerged from the fog bank just off the coast of Morrowind.
The Imperial Navy and Aldmeri Navy were no where to be seen. He and his crew took it as a sign from Kynareth and they sailed north into the Sea of Ghosts. After a long debate Antonie and the crew decided they'd pushed their luck to far and found a large ice flow to moore the ship. After separating all the loot and supplies amongst the crew they boarded the long boats and made for Skyrim. Several went to Windhelm, others to Dawnstar, and many to Solitude.
Captain Antoine StrongKnot, scurge of the Abecean Sea was among those that went to Solitude, even though the Imperial Legion was there and probably looking for him. His first stop, was Radiant Raiment where he picked up some fine new clothes, trimmed his beard and cut his hair short, then it was off to the Winking Skeever for a whole lot of ale, warm food and a soft bed. After that... he was going to explore Skyrim and see what kind of trouble he could stir up.