Hope this doesn't count as necroposting.
Yer Cap'ns Name: Lovell
Name o' Yer Ship: The Royal Oyster
'Ow Many Hands D'Ye 'Ave: Now? 0.
Tell Us a Bit More 'Bout Yer Lore an' Yer Pirates:
- First, I go off of Sornieth having more than one "layer," explained in
this not-yet-complete thing. (It'll launch eventually, but until it's ready, it's just handy for explaining where I'm coming from.)
- I am the writer, not a character. Some people incorporate themselves as characters into their lore, and there are some really cool ways that people do that. However, I don't.
Okay, now onto the lore I'm using for my pirate characters.
- The Royal Oyster sailed a long time ago, and was sunk in a large ship-to-ship battle. Any who once sailed aboard it is likely dead (due to the occupation's mortality rate along with how long ago this was), with the exception of one, older dragon who used to be a cabin boy aboard the vessel. The ship and its crew primarily kept to the Sea of a Thousand Currents, terrorizing the lands around it. It also used to be called the Demeter.
- Dragons in-story will almost always not be the same age as the pixel version that represent them.
- I used a lot of the guidelines posted here to help shape the premise of Sornieth's pirating scene, and left a good amount of maneuverability for it to be incorporated more. (Seriously, thanks for the info/guidelines.) I'm avoiding the consumption of poisons that
would be used to kill your enemy as alcohol nigh entirely, and shying away from the SLW (I have other authorities in place for the layer of Sornieth I'll be writing these guys in, but I'm sure groups like then both can and do exist, both in the layer I'll be writing these guys in, and in other layers), lore-wise, though, and for me, exaltion can be either literally going to serve whichever deity (whether with menial stuff or with "going to war"), or dying (sometimes with the former leading to the latter.)
'Ave Anythin' Special Ye'd Fancy Sharin': As for now, I don't have any plans on gathering up pages and pages of pirates. I have enough projects, heh. 'Sides, the way this story's going, I don't think I'll fill out a whole crew, especially of specific dragons. Most of my pirates are generic (which is also why I don't have a set number of how many the Oyster used to have.)
Showcase Yer Pirates: Here're all two of 'em!
This is Mort. He actually survived to retirement, and was, in fact, that cabin boy I mentioned. Back then, he was a Pearlcatcher, and though I don't have a custom accent to show it, he's missing his left wing, and half his tail.
Captain Lovell himself...kind of. Full explanation in his bio, but the short of it is that the real Lovell died and this guy's a recreation of him. He's just getting restarted, so he doesn't have a ship yet, let alone a crew.
Anyway, I love all the info you have here, and the accuracy of it. Thanks for posting it, and I hope this thread gets more attention. :)