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Here is Avershire's Main Character Bio:

Name: Captain Kent Avershire

Age: 45

Gender: Male

Race: Gondorian, from Dol Amroth (of Corsair lineage)

Weapons: He has a 28 ½ in. cutlass with a steel basket handle to use like an iron fist in sea-board combat. He carries a boot dagger too.

Appearance: Kent has dark blue eyes, thick, shoulder length, dark brown hair and tan, leathery skin. He is 6’4” at approximately 210 lbs. His handsome features are very pronounced and he has that rugged manly facade about him. He wears the tough clothes of a sailor: a white, billowy shirt; dark red, knee-length breeches; a wide leather belt; black, calf-high fold-over boots; and because of his former status, an old-fashioned styled cuffed and collared chocolate colored corduroy captain’s coat with delicate gold and black trimming.

Personality/Strengths/Weaknesses: He is a very brilliant man with cunning ideas and a bewildering intellect (bordering insanity). Avershire knows things about the sea one would never find in books. His agile frame and incredible strength is valued in every mariner. The purposelessness of his current situation is very depressing for him and he is quick to anger at anyone to poke fun at him (this might be a problem when Devon comes to ask for his help). When he returns to the sea alongside an aged but loyal crew, we find that five years of drinking and dormancy have added an insane twist to his ingenious plots.

History: Kent grew up the son of a pirate--no kidding. He was a cabin boy on his father’s ship and learned the ways of the sea at a very young age. However, unhappy with his life of rampage and destruction, he fled to Dol Amroth and later offered his service to the king after the War of the Ring. For twenty years of captaincy, Kent would hunt the pirates whose ships hadn’t been taken by Lord Aragorn after the Paths of the Dead. His ships would escort merchants traveling up and down the coasts and send search and rescue parties out for missing vessels. All this stopped five years ago when a jealous rival uncovered his pirate lineage and he was dismissed from the navy. He now takes up residence in Gondor’s new Umbar where he sits in his townhouse by his self mostly, just reading and drinking in his pub of choice: the Beast’s Lair. Deep in the back of his mind still dwells the nagging thoughts of sea faring adventure and the life he led five years ago. He hasn’t forgotten a thing and yearns to be able to captain a crew just once more...

And here's Meri, an important secondary character:

Name: Meri Loliway

Age: 37

Gender: Female

Race: Gondorian from Dol Amroth, (moved to Umbar with Avershire)

Weapons: Bandoleer set of twelve black throwing knives, and a 28 in. cut and thrust that hangs from her left hip.

Appearance: A resplendent wavy mass of hair darker than sin tumbling waist length. A shapely figure; tall, and on the slender side. She has impressive sea-blue eyes with a burst of hazel in the right making her eyes look almost like two different colors. Her facial features: strikingly handsome with a nearly strait, small nose, bold cheekbones, and full, dusty rose-pink lips. She could not be called beautiful in the strictest sense of the word, but her features do have an awe-inspiring effect that make her look imperious as well as exceptionally attractive. Her skin tans easily, and blemishes caused sometimes by the sun are not uncommon. She usually wears tight leggings, a white, billowy sleeved cotton shirt, and a low cut, rust-colored jerkin that closes up the front in gold clasps.

Personality: Meri is tough but not overbearing. She is very quick to earn people's respect and she treats others with a good deal of courtesy. She is very dedicated to Avershire and does all she can for him. She is quiet though and a great singer and dancer (mostly for Avershire‘s eyes only though).

History: She was born the daughter of a merchant sailor in Dol Amroth--the youngest of three children. She had one older brother named Dirk, and an olders sister named Lotte. Her family is still alive but living in fine style in Dol Amroth. They offer her haven if she should ever need it, but she chose to sail with Avershire instead. Her family secretly disapproves of Kent and Meri’s relationship but they love her anyways and are kind to him.

She has only ever sailed under/with Avershire and is an able first mate to him agile aloft, and imperious on deck. Thanks to her steadfastness he experienced very fair sailing for fifteen of his twenty years abroad.

She moved with him to Umbar five years ago.

Avershire's first post is up and Devon's is in progress. More later though, I'm going iceskating now!

-Maikafanawen