One night, after Windbreaker ended a raucous port visit to Tarad'am, a notorious pirate ship called
The Scarlet Pearl overtook and boarded them - putting all to the sword. She was the last one standing, beset by saber and dagger at the starboard rail. Unleashing her final arcane reserves in a burst of thunder, she went over the side rather than be taken and sold into slavery – as they had threatened to do to her.
Two days later she washed ashore. A pair of triton scouts had found her - a Surfacer - swimming out to sea under the moonlight. They guided her landward.
Losing her shipmates – her second family – was devastating blow. Sitting on the focs'l of an evening, leading the rest of the crew in songs, was no longer possible. Afraid to bring trouble home to her family she traveled north, earning room and board by performing at the odd tavern, or, by persuading folks to share their food with her in exchange for a story or song.
She joined a caravan heading North. The caravan master wore a brooch on his cloak: the dragon-headed ouroboros, gold on black. He was recruiting for
Forever and Beyond, a guild of adventurers.
Arriving in Sheplyn, she joined with Sargas of Tor-Elan, Tsun Azur, Crow, and Morgan to help Lord Sumter sort out his problems in Honedaxe, a seaside port town. It seemed like a good idea at the time. One day she’ll pay back the slavers who destroyed her ship and killed her shipmates.
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As it worked out, she got a cittern (bard instrument) and eventually came across the captain of the Scarlet Pearl. She killed him, and mutilated the body with the hilt of her rapier, crying out the names of each of her dead shipmates one after the other as each blow fell. She then set fire to the remains.
Later on, she fell in love with an ancient gold dragon and had a child by him. Her simulacrum helped with the breast feeding after birth. Her songs are now sung on the astral plane by various performers, and she collect royalties. She True Resurrected her first true love, and set him free.
He signed on as first mate on a merchant ship and hasn't been seen since ...