The Crew of Golden Prize

Captain Tibereous

Young, handsome, daring, and brilliant, Captain Tibereous had a promising career in The Navy. However, his inability to follow orders from superiors when his own plan was better, created a dilemma for the high command. One does not argue with success, but one can not tolerate disobeying orders and lack of respect for chain of command. He had scandal after scandal, both on the seas and in port (either in bed or in the dueling courts). He was stripped of rank and cast off his ship by a regional governor. He floated around a bit, crewing on a number of ships. He eventually found his way to a pirate's port.

He made quite a stir there, between wenching, dueling, and drinking. Think about that. He made a stir doing that at a pirate's port.

After a brief card game, he took possession of the Golden Prize. His brilliant, but unorthodox tactics, allowed him and his crew to become quite successful scoring several successful raids on the Kargan's island fort and drydock on Tirimara, and their holdings on Puril and Tanagon.

The Golden Prize has always had a colorful record. Under his command these last four years, the ship and its crew has done some amazing things. The crew love the man and will follow him anywhere.

The women love him anywhere he stops. They will be his undoing someday. He will never lose his heart to them. His heart is to the sea and his ship.

He has a strong bond with his First Mate and Keepers of the Wind. It is a mutual admiration for their complimentry strengths and weaknesses that keeps the relationship strong.

He keeps the physicer's council. The Old One has been around a while and has seen many things. He is full of homespun advice and sayings.

He is very accepting of those who are different. That is how he has managed to attract and keep many an odd man on the crew.

First Officer and Keeper of the Winds Vullan

Vullan is a man of many worlds, part of many, at home in none. He is a Half Elven man at sea. In a world of few halfbreeds, he is notably unique -neither man nor elf. Given that Elves avoid the sea, his choice of profession seems odd. He is a mage of some repute, specializing in spells of Wind, Sail, and Navagation. He is no longer soley part of the mundane world, yet he harness the arcane only for very practical purposes. He is a man who is not at home even in his own skin.

Vullan is a stoic man, prizing thought and planning over passion and intuition. He is quite learned, speaking and reading a dozen languages. He loves to read and does so on a regular basis. His iron self discipline has allowed him to go far in his studies of magic and craft of the sea. He seems aloof from the crew. That is true. He simply does not know how to related to these rowdy seamen.

Vullen served with Tiberious on one of the few crew posts he took before becoming The Captain. (It was a merchant ship he was serving on after his term with the Trellian Navy). Together they saved themselves and the crew from Evil Canablistic Island Cultists, and ran the ship on its way back to its destination port. A year later, upon receiving a letter, Vullen made his way to join the Golden Prize.

In The Captain he sees what he lacks. However, he also sees the dangers of the extreme. His cool words have guided The Captain to "jump to the right conclusion". The two balance each other, rather than being in opposition like so many aspects of his world.

The Bones and he have a Friend-foe relationship. Both are men of letters, but their approaches are radically different. One could say the sky is blue and the other would say it was light blue, just to be contrary. Both respect each others intellects and some of their positions, but the two will argue about just almost everything.

He and the Helmsmen Su have a strong bond as well, as both are "foreigners" and far from home. Their positions mean they work long hours together to move the ship along. They have had time to talk. While Vullan has not revealed too much about himself, he has revealed a great deal to this master of war and the wheel.

The Bones, Physicker

The Bones is a creepy old medic. He is wrinkled, descrept, balding, but with wild fly away white hair about his shoulders. He seems older than the hills, but is suprising spry for the age he appears. (Some speculate he is a victim of some disease that makes him look aged.) He has a way at looking at you, that seems to penetrate your soul. He takes your measure and tells you about yourself, including things you did not even know about yourself. He speak in cryptic phrases most of the time, often requiring the listener to puzzle out what he is talking about. In his more charming moments, he tosses out "homespun wisdom" from the western dales of Trellia - his homeland. He is a hornery old coot at the best of time. But there is no one else you would want to lay hands on your injured body.

If you can stand the self scruitny, he can fix a broken heart as easily as a sword wound. He is a top notch surgeon and physicker. He is a man of letters, and if the stories are to be believed, trained at one of the finest academies in all the world. Yet he practices various superstitious healing practices, the rattling of bones to scare spirits, the spinning of patients, and the use of the sun and stars to heal as well. "Sometimes the old ways are good ways," he says. "Other times they are just old."

He was a country squire long ago, but he had to give it up because of love, scandal, and conflicting vows. He feels obliged to help everyone he can. He joined The Crew under Captain Spear, recruiting him after they stopped a maurader attack against the temple clinic he was helping at.

He also organizes The Captain's Circle Card Game. He is quite good.

The Bones believes in feelings and the mysterious, not rationality and magic/ power. This puts him at odds with Vullen. Still he likes a good debate, even with a pointy eared statue.

Helmsman Su

The Golden Prize was operating in The Pearl Waters. Teamed up with a Pirate King, they were taking on Dylori "poaching" upon their pirate territories. The battle was grand. The Great Dragon Ship of the Dylori was stopped and both shipping AND piracy were safe in the eastern Pearl Waters.

Su was fished from the waters when his Pirate Prince's ship was destroyed by the Golden Prize. Taking over for their wounded Helmsman, feelilng an obligation to his rescuers, his hands and The Captains commands helped guide the Golden Prize to victory that day. From that day on, he has simply been the ship's Helmsman.

Su is from the Pearl Lands that the Dylori have not conquered. He is a master warrior using the strange "arts of wars" they practice there. He is a master of sword, fist, and foot.

Since he is from the Pearl Lands and the Golden Prize mostly sails in the Western Ocean, he is a man far from home and things familiar.

He and Vellan are the only two who speak his language onboard, so they converse quite often. More so that their two positions (Helmsman and Master of Winds) require interaction on a regular basis.

They also enjoy the Foods of the Pearl Lands, so they will often eat together.

In dangerous situations, he will appoint himself as The Captain's Bodyguard.

Master of the Sails Skah-Ti

He is a man full of bluster and life like most Highlanders. Though a male he be, a man he is not. He be a Half Orc. The Highlanders be as wild as the Orcs they fight. Seeking his fortune away from the Hills and Valleys, he found his way to a sailing ship. That was twenty years ago and he has never looked back. He is the Master of the Sails for the Golden Prize, commanding the use of sails and riggings. He is also in charge of the carpenters who keep the ship solid as well.

He treats The Golden Prize as his child. He frequently calls it "his ship". His "boys" run the riggings here. He drills his men like a drill sargent, but nobody will be better on the riggings than one of "his boys".

Skah-Ti was part of Captain Spears crew. He stayed on because it was his ship and "no fancy pants green toe" was going to wreck it. He grew to like The New Captain, especially since they both have the same taste of fun (drinking and wenching). Given Skah's looks, it is more drinking on his part, but that does not bother him.

He is the only true pirate in the Captain's Circle. He knows The Secret and really does not care. The Golden Prize goes places no one has gone before and does things that only Bards would dream of. He would not trade his bunk for all the Gold in the world (well maybe he would, but he would feel bad about it).