Battling alongside a former lover - Captain Jaego Roth, she and her crew were eventually forced to flee in the face of overwhelming numbers. Known by the pirates of Sartosa as the Queen of Tides, in 2522 IC Aranessa was present when an undead attack on Sartosa left it's port in flames. She opened fire on the Imperial ships, refusing to be beholden to them. She was eventually approached by the Imperial Fleet, who wanted to commission the famed hunter of Norscans to help them fight against the forces of Chaos as a privateer. Aranessa earned the moniker 'Saltspite' for her vengeful attacks on her former people. Īfter the captain was eaten by sea-gargoyles, she replaced him, and under her leadership, the Swordfysh became a hunter of Norscan reavers. The crew saw her as their lucky charm and she eventually became the Swordfysh's first mate. She became an excellent navigator, and every course she plotted resulted in a windfall of loot she became a skilled fighter and cannoneer, never losing a duel, and never missing a shot. Over the next decade, Aranessa became a brilliant pirate. She killed anyone who touched her and was initially unable to talk (having had nobody to talk to until that point), but she took position in the crow's nest every day and excelled as the ship's lookout. Īboard the Swordfysh, the girl was an object of fascination. Venturing out onto the ocean in a rowboat, Aranessa encountered and was picked up by the crew of a galleon named Swordfysh. Knowing that she would be persecuted for her mutations, she drank a lot of rum and amputated her 'fin' with a cutlass, cauterizing the resulting stumps and binding sawfish rostrum to them with leather belts. Įventually, Aranessa resolved to venture out into the world. Every month a new ship would wreck close to her cove and she learned everything she could from what knowledge these ships contained while enjoying the other spoils that she took from their broken hulls. Every dawn saw a new gift from the sea wash up on the beach near the cave in which she lived, allowing her to decorate it with numerous shells. Surviving on a diet of gymmcrabs, algae and black kelp, Aranessa quickly learned to spear-fish, and before her tenth birthday, she was catching sharks, fanged rays and even mermanticores. Ī school of daggerfish are said to have then borne the infant to a sandy cove, where she was cared for by a trio of ocean spirits known as sea-nymphs. The people of Skjold killed their mutant children, so Aranessa's father was only too happy to throw his newborn daughter into the merciless sea before the sun had even set on the day of her birth. Desiring a strong male heir, the chief was incensed to have sired not only a daughter, but also a mutant - Aranessa was born covered in spines, with webbed fingers, scaly limbs and legs that merged into a fan of flesh below her knees instead of feet. Aranessa was born in Norsca, to the chieftain of the coastal settlement known as Skjold.
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