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Writing partner: CurtailedAmbrosia

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Writing partner: Perplexia

Place and time: Northumberland, England; 902 AD

Characters:

Eric:

• To his own people, he is known as Eric of Kjelst. Kjelst is a medium sized town (~600 residents) at the north end of Ho Bay (Ho Bugt), which reaches inland north from where near Esbjerg, Denmark, looks out upon the North Sea.
• To the English who will soon come to know him, he will be called Eric the Dane.
• Image and full profile (coming).

Mylecent Hamlin

• Only daughter of the Lord of SortVand and, with her father's death, the heir apparent to SortVand.
• Hostage of Eric the Dane.

Hagar:

• Friend of Eric the Dane.
• Next in line to command Eric's Viking forces in Northumberland.

SortVand:

• Location: ~5 miles up the River Coquet, which dumps into the North Sea near the northern extremes of the Kingdom of Northumberland.
• SortVand is a combination of two Danish words: sort means black, vand means water, and together, in the context of this location, it means that the village is located near a bog.
• SortVand was built by the Danes in the late 870s AD under the terms of a treaty with the King of Northumberland. Later, in 898, after this King died and his son took the throne, this portion of Northumberland was deeded to the Kingdom of Middlesbrough to the south. This more southern King sent forces to attack SortVand, killing nearly every Danish residence and reoccupying the village with English, under the supervision of a new Lord, Mylecent's father. (As a point of fact, while he knew of the slaughter afterwards, Mylecent's father had nothing to do with the slaughter.)

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Captain of the pirate sloop, Black Dawn.

Resident (primarily) of Ibiza, an island east of the Mediterranean coast of Spain.​

32 years of age.
6'2", 195 pounds.
Fit, muscular (image of torso w/o shirt).
Scars (not seen in image) to be described when appropriate.​

Native tongue: Valencia (aka Catalan).

Fluent languages: All of the significant Castillian dialects (map of dialect dispersement), English, Portuguese, French, Italian, and Greek.

Semi-fluent: Most of Western Europe's primary languages, Arabic (of both North African and Turkish variants), and German.​

Born in Valencia, a region of Spain's eastern coast, in 1584.

Orphaned young (~5, though he doesn't recall exactly).

Lived on the streets, thieving; went by the only name he knew, Marcel.

At age 9, he was befriended by Juan Puig i Boada, a pirate of great mystery. Papa Juan, as Marc would come to call him, was of Northern African (Algerian?) descent, had a Valencian/Catalan name, sailed an Italian built ship (which he and a handful of sailor friends had stolen before he then again stole it from them with a second group of pirates), and spoke half a dozen languages from Africa, Western Europe, and the Middle East.

Juan would give Marc his new full name and a sense of pride in himself.

From 9-11, Marc lived with one of Juan's many mistresses on the island of Ibiza, 140 miles east of the Spanish mainland. During this time, he herded goats, learned to tend boats and sails, and practiced with the cutlass and other weapons.

At age 12, he killed a man as he was attempting to rape Juan's mistress. When Juan returned from a pillaging run, he immediately added Marc to his boat's crew as a quarter share boat hand.

At age 13, though, Marc uncovered a plot to assassinate Juan. After killing one man and exposing the others (which lead to their executions), Marc was elevated to a full share pirate.

At age 16, already well respected by the older men as a skilled sailor and pirate, Marc took command during a fierce, bloody fight with a pair of Spanish warships in which both Juan and the First Mate were fatally injured. He saved the boat while setting one of the Spanish sloops afire. Then, two days later (after Juan had died of his injuries), Marc convinced the crew to seek their revenge. Using only the long boats, they slipped into the mainland port from which the Spanish had been dispatched and set three warships aflame.

Marc was promoted to First Mate under the leadership of the former Second Mate. This new Captain failed at his duties, however, failing miserably in three successive attacks and losing the confidence of the crew. Marc challenged for leadership, and after quickly dispatching the Captain with a sword to the gut, he was voted to the position of Captain.

At 20, while operating off the coast of Sicily, their boat was set upon by a foursome of Italian warships. They escaped but were badly damaged and barely reached the North African coast. They abandoned ship and split up, vowing to make their ways back to Ibiza. Marc would steal a small boat, then a larger one, then yet a larger one, pirating and thieveing along the way.

At 24, he was again reunited with half of his original crew and an equal number of new men on Ibiza, pirating once more on a new boat.

And for the past 8 years, the now 32 year old Captain and his well known boat, the Black Dawn, have been the scourge of the Western Mediterranean.​

Cutlass (image).

Dagger.

A variety of blades hidden in his boots and up his sleeves.​

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Eric the Dane​