Tristan O’Shea

Born an Irish shipwrights son in Dublin, Ireland in the late 1500's Tristan had the life many middle class Irish had at that time. He always enjoyed spending time down at the shipyeard with his father while he worked learning anything he could from the other men.

The shipyard was bought by a rich English noble and it continued to do well.

Life was definately liveable.

That is until his father mysteriously fell to his death one day from the scaffolding on the ship he was working on.

Shortly thereafter an English noble started coming around asking for his mother and after a very short time they were moved onto the English nobles estate where his mother was now offered a job. Soon after that the English noble married his mother and they were now fully integrated into his many possessions.

Life had become far harder that it had ever been. There were studies that Tristan and his brothers had never seen or heard of and they were visciously stricken each time they allowed thier Irish accents to filter through thier voices.

Through a long childhood he suffered eventually finding his mother had been abused for years by the English lord. In a bout of uncontrolled rage one night at the sight of it he ended up stopping his mothers abuse by killing the lord and fleeing. He saw his only way out to stow away on a ship leaving the cape. Caught and flogged severely, the crew, after a long period of distrust, eventually allowed him to move into a position of navigator while dabbling in cartography due to his mathmatical abilities.

After a good while aboard the ship they were attacked out in open water by a ship called the Dragon's Blood. The ship was crippled and boarded by a scruffy group of individuals claiming to have lost thier navigator and if they were allowed to collect up any valuables the crew might have aquired as well as the navigator they would leave the rest of the crew and ship with no further violence.

The crew obliged them and Tristan started his new life aboard the Dragon's Blood. There were many more scuffles with other ships and a goodly few close calls in those years. He got to know and trust the captain at the time Lord Arthus de Winterton and moved his way up to Quartermaster in charge of the crew. Much later Lord Arthus was promoted to admiral of the fleet and was moved up from being captain. Near the same time a brutal attack and attempted theft of the ship left the Dragon's Blood crippled and almost destroyed.

Tristan swore to rebuild the ship and recrew her at any cost. After selacting the best crew and from theories he remembered his father using and talks with Shipwright Master Matthew Baker the ship was rebuilt faster and more powerful than it ever was.

After the refitting and upgrades to the ship he moved into service of the crown gaining the ship and crew notariety and gaining himself the title of Lord. He has served under Baron Titus and Baroness Kateline and recived multiple awards to include his Golden Torc, the Baroness' Trillium as well as a Golden Torc for the crew. The pleasure of service the their excellencies has always been his.

The crew is now training for heavy combat as well as archery and siege combat.

The rest of the story is yet to come...

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