Shade Rains

Shade Rains

Pronouns	He/Him
Clan	Corsair
Sect	Anarch
Sect Faction	Constructionist
Social Class	Ancilla
Morality	Humanity
Gang	Tribe Eternal
Position(s)	Ambassador/Emissary

Further Information

Description

An unnaturally beautiful man in a $3,000 pitch-black suit, wearing designer sunglasses to hide his Void-Black eyes. There's something about how the shadows play around him, only making him more captivating. He has short black hair, is impeccably groomed, and smells pleasantly of roses.

Timeline

• Born in 1685 at a small Colonial outpost in the Virgin Islands, within France's Caribbean Sphere of Influence.

• 1699 - Despite being the son of a French Naval officer, growing up in relative comfort and safety, at 14 he left to be a cabin boy on a French Merchant Vessel.

• 1699 - Not two months aboard, the ship is sacked and boarded by pirates as the ship was en route to supply a New France outpost in Louisiana. The ships officers are put to the sword, while the rest of the meager crew was gang-pressed into piracy.

• 1700-1710 - As the Golden Age of Piracy ravages the Colonies, his crew saw wild success after success, much of it attributed to Shade's strategies that directly countered colonial naval tactics. Among the Pirate crew, Shade's meager education and ability to read led to his rapid advancement, and at age 20 he became one of the youngest and cleverest Quartermasters in the Bahamas. He Unknowingly drew the attention of a powerful entity, who carefully watched Shade's continued success and popularity with the crew due to his knack for mathematics and a cunning ability to keep the ship supplied even in the direst of times.

• 1711 - Shade is embraced while ashore the so-called Pirate's Republic of New Providence.

• 1712-1716 - Shade and his Sire become well known for their night raids and successful capture of English, French, and Spanish Merchant and Naval Vessels. Working alongside his Sire and a small team of incredibly deadly ghouls, Shade and his team pillage both the unsuspecting and dangerously well prepared ships, including Pirate vessels returning to New Providence, heavy with loot to unload. Despite not following a traditional model of Caribbean piracy, their tactics and targets began to yield far more wealth than even some of the most notorious pirate crews and captains.

• 1717-1719 - As the Golden Age of Piracy continues to roar across the seas, Shade's Sire begins to grow more and more skeptical of the disorganized and infighting-prone egos of well-known crews and captains who failed to see the growing threat of the Royal Navy's influx of Pirate Hunters and the commitment by the British Crown to capture and hang every man, woman, and child found guilty of Piracy. Shade and his Sire begin to make preparations to leave the Bahamas and settle in the small port town of New Orleans.

Rumors

Quotes

• "A Lasombra who favors black, and his name is Shade. What, was there a writers' strike?" - Zoltan Vancura

• "I'm rather fond of Mr. Shade. He's kept an eye on me since that... rather unfortunate night in New Orleans. Maybe one day I can repay his kindness." - Alice Vermeer
  

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OOC Information

Player	[1]
Pronouns	He/Him
MES #	US2002127042
Domain	LA-005-D
Storyteller	Andrew Herman