One may wonder why there is a pirate in Windemere, a trading post south of the Kalor Desert and north of the mountains that have many interesting ruins, towns and people. And no ocean for several weeks travel. I'm still working ever so slowly on expanding Windemere out, and the entry for her is:
half Elf, owner of the Silver Pirate.With a vicious scar down her face and disappearing into her high-necked shirt, Nomehi presides over the inn as she presided over her pirate ship: a stern taskmaster who rewards those who do well. Those who do not perform to her standards have the scars to prove she is not above a lash or two. She lives in the owners suite of the Inn, and few have seen the inside of that suite since she took over more than a year ago. She runs the town with the sheriff under her thumb, though most of the town do not know that. She would have sword, agility, toughness, throwing and recognize value skills, as well as perhaps a few magic spells. She always has a saber on her hip as well as a bandolier of daggers. The daggers are well balanced for throwing. Dagger marks on various walls attest to her short temper.
She was cursed before coming to Windmere to never see the seas again. Her crew stuck with her as she headed west, and ended up in Windmere. Seeing an opportunity here, she took over the inn, renamed it, and started her take over of the town. Cursed by the wild witch Angnes after killing her sister, Nomehi is always willing to pay for information as to Agnes’ whereabouts. She has offered rewards to track her down and get her to Windmere to remove the curse and then kill the witch.
We have a witch that has cursed her. Reading through the Wex's Drift Kickstarter 'zine, we do have witches there. So let me tell you a tale of a pirate that was cursed by the Witches of the Warzens of Wex's Drift.
It was a sunny day as Captain Wiridea and her back of scallywags sailed into the port near the City Center. After allowing the Rogue Wave to inspect their ship, they docked and paid handsome taxes for the barrels of pure water they had brought along. What they did not find were the notes about a crystal of power that was the entire reason for Wex's Drfit being what it was: a collection of ships that drafted far off the mainland, a great, dead beast's skeletal remains casting its shadow over the drifting city. Several days of exploration by various crewmembers, and they had pinpointed at least one of the crystal shards being at the Warzen's family compound. Not knowing that the family was, shall we say, not very accepting of visitors, their midnight foray led the captain and five of her crew to be captured, cursed, and via a gate powered by the same crystal she was wanting to capture, cast out into the Kalor Desert. The curse won't allow her to be on the water ever again: despite her skills, any boat she is on will sink, any attempt to cross water deeper than her knees causes her to fall face forward and possibly drown if she can't crawl back to safety.
Cursing the witches, she and her crew took over the small trading village, naming the tavern the Silver Pirate. She still plots a revenge, and wants to find a wizard that could remove her curse so she can get back to the Eastern Ocean to pursue those witches that caste her out.
The Silver Pirate is a fine location, offering a wide variety of beers, wines and foods that are constantly resupplied via the trading caravans. There is a strange bird kept behind the bar that seems to eat all sorts of scraps. The remaining crew call it a cacklemaw bird, and it somehow got caught up in the gate spell and came with the pirates when they got dumped in the desert.
Still need to figure out how to add more personality not only to these characters but to the town as well. I've yet another Kickstarter that may help as it evolves the towns over time, much like a character leveling up. Of course, it would really help if I could edit my thoughts better and perhaps not try to pull in everything from, well, everything.
You can search on the Kickstarter site for Wex's Drift for more details. It is currently out of stock according to what I think is the primary web site here. I've also decided I'll add actual character sheets to the back of my document, and this was the 1st one. Eventually I'll share the PDF but it is, like a lot of my life, sort of all over the place. All these ideas that I think, if wrangled, could be good and useful for other people as well.
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