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Hat
- Horned helmet
- Gold-trimmed tricorne
- Black bicorne w/ skull
- Long-nosed carnival mask
- Round tortoiseshell cap
- Flat bamboo cone
- Plumed shako
- Jewelled turban
- Sombrero
- Demon-masked kabuto
- Powdered wig
- Hatless, embarrassed about it
Injury
- Wooden leg
- Hook hand
- Eyepatch
- Silver nose
- Earless
- Badly burnt
- Hole straight through chest
- Sword scar across face
- Not enough fingers
- Toothless, whalebone dentures
- Syphilitic, jawbone rotting off
- Flawless physically, disfigured psychologically
Distinguishing Feature
- Gigantic red beard
- Elaborate curled moustachios
- Bald
- Tattooed across 90% of skin
- Voice tremendously high-pitched
- Lisp
- Barrel-chested and brutally strong
- Emaciated
- Obese
- Dark red eyes
- Wispy little goatee
- Fiendishly handsome
Weapon
- Scimitar engraved w/ holy verses
- Harpoon
- Pearl-handled revolvers
- Cavalry sabre
- Bullwhip
- Satchel of grenadoes
- Serpent-shaped dagger
- Hook-tipped cane knife
- Morningstar
- Blowpipe and poisoned darts
- Paired hatchets
- Kills w/ bare hands exclusively
First Mate
- Midget version of themselves
- Monkey, steals shit
- Talking parrot, shockingly obscene
- Grizzled veteran of countless wars
- Adopted urchin, twelve years old and ruthless
- Plump, naive merchant seeking life of adventure
- Absolutely jaded quartermaster, thinks only money is real
- Cannibal huntsman from secluded island
- Elderly sawbones, medical techniques unconventional but effective
- Haunted navigator who dreams of distant suns
- Cheerful naturalist who just wants to collect specimens
- Second son of noble family, run away to sea and not regretting it
Crew
- Mad-eyed rogues who live in filth, no purpose but slaughter
- Clean-uniformed, disciplined as any army
- Deformed lunatics, not a man jack of them bodily whole
- Naked headhunters, seeking prestige and slaves for the afterlife
- Gold-hungry and ambitious, plotting to make themselves kings
- Surprisingly intellectual
- Religious fanatics
- Creepy perverts and probably serial killers
- Escaped slaves, desperate for revenge
- Sullen and depressed, giving to ranting about the cruelty of the sea
- Party animals, as happy to hang out with you as kill you
- Easily-befuddled lunkheads and goons
Ship
- Sleek black-sailed blockade runner, swift and near-invisible at night
- Repurposed treasure galleon w/ cavernous hold
- Four-masted barquentine, quick in straight lines but difficult to maneuver
- Fat, lumbering man-o’-war, weighed down by too many guns
- Shallow-hulled galley designed to hide in rivers and wetlands
- Hijacked prison hulk, forgotten thieves and murderers still chained in bowels
- Trireme w/ bronze ram, eyes painted on prow
- Shield-sided longship, can be carried overland in emergencies
- Dhow with triangular sails, agile and redolent w/ spices
- Dragon-painted junk, can sail into wind and attack out of storms
- Two-hulled proa, stable and insanely fast
- Submarine
Nemesis
- Crocodile
- White whale
- Giant squid
- Stern, fatherly governor of nearby island colony
- Iron-jawed and morally impeccable officer of imperial navy
- Former first mate who turned out mutinous
- Priests who want their sacred idol back
- Ghost of lover they betrayed
- Child they abandoned
- Humble fisherman whose livelihood they ruined
- Another pirate, in competition w/ them for same treasure
- The Devil, who they welshed on a bet with
Questing For
- Fountain of Youth
- A way to break the curse that plagues them
- Revenge on the establishment
- Hidden hoard of other, greater pirate
- Sunken flotilla bearing annual tribute to long-dead empress
- Lost city of gold
- The love of a good woman and/or man
- A place free from the tyranny of governments
- An honourable death in battle, it has to be really really good though
- More rum
- The person who killed their parents
- A new, better first mate
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