Tessa Fairwind

Tessa Fairwind

(Person)

Aliases

Mistress of Quent

Titles

Captain
Governor of Quent
Pirate lord
Hurricane Queen

Alignment

Chaotic neutral

Ancestry/Species

Aiuvarin

Class

Bard 10 / Duelist 3

Gender

Female

Homeland

Quent, Shackles

Deity

Calistria

Organization

Shackles Pirates
Pirate Council

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Source: The Inner Sea World Guide, pg(s). 171

Tessa Fairwind is one of the most popular members and the Hurricane Queen of the Pirate Council of the Shackles. Power-hungry and greedy, she commands one of the largest fleets in the Shackles. She is well known for taking on dangerously reckless raids that seem doomed to failure, yet somehow always snatching victory against all odds.

She rules Quent, second largest of the Shackles' ports, and is captain of the sloop Luck of the Draw.

Background

Tessa was born at sea, to a human merchant sailor and an elven sacred prostitute of the Pleasure Salon of Calistria in Absalom.

Tessa's childhood was spent on numerous ships and in various ports on the Inner Sea, and she grew up with sea shanties and fabulous tales of adventures. Her career in piracy began when she burgled a smuggler's hidden stash with a yacht stolen in Cassomir. She captained her first ship at the age of 15, audaciously raiding a Thuvian pleasure barge on the Junira river. Three years later, to avoid bounty hunters seeking the price on her head, Tessa left the Inner Sea for the Arcadian Ocean. On the way, she raided Chelish liners near Khari and Rahadoumi ships and villages before arriving in the Shackles.

Finding the Shackles to her liking, Tessa began making her name, putting her into conflict with local pirates. Her skulduggery and treachery eventually made her a powerful Free Captain with a large fleet and the important port city of Quent under her control.

In 4712 AR, after the Hurricane King Kerdak Bonefist was overthrown during an invasion of the Chelish Navy, Tessa Fairwind was chosen to be his replacement.

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