Roland Gore

"ALROIGHT."

Role
Former Captain of the Mistral.

Former prisoner on the Mistral.

Current dead guy not on the Mistral... unless?

Appearance
Mixed elvish and human ancestry, features angled but with a strong jaw, fine made clothes, velvet maroon double breasted jacket and silver appearing buttons, tall boots, fine breeches, medium brown skin and stubble, long dreadlocks with jewelry cuffed around. Not quite middle aged appearance.

Personality
Roland Gore has a rough, abrasive personality and calls people by their roles on the ship instead of their names. He is unbearably uncommunicative and at times flat-out rude.

Backstory
Roland's father, Leland, raised him as a privateer on the sailing ship the Mistral, but was killed when his crew mutinied as a result of Leland’s refusal to turn to piracy. Roland was permitted to stay on the ship as a last kindness from Abraham, the new captain and his father’s traitorous former best friend. Roland lived a hard but not wretched life as a deckhand on the Mistral from then onward, slowly rising up the ranks and gaining Abraham’s trust until he was first mate. Abraham’s secret goal, which he eventually let Roland in on once they were friends, was to find the siren voice that haunted him ever since the death of Leland Gore. The Siren of the Sapphire Isles was rumored to hide great treasure, the promise of which Abraham used to convince his crew to search for the Siren. But the real reason Abraham had to find the Siren, which he confided in Roland, was that when the Siren chose to haunt you, they sang you a song and promised to tell you a great secret, without which Abraham felt certain that he would certainly fall deep into the hells upon his death.

It's unclear what happened between Abraham and Roland after that, but Roland became captain of the Mistral and Abraham's goal is now his.

Campaign Arc One: Siren's Song
After losing most of his previous crew, Roland hired Ahtziri, Ducat, Mireille, EFAIN, and Fry to be the new crew in Green Harbor, Faimoor, as the five had responded to an ad put out by the first mate, Anna Yoon. Roland offered to pay them all 10 gold per week and allow them a share of any interesting or valuable findings encountered on the ship's expedition. He did not tell anyone about the Sapphire Isles or the siren's song.

In A Burning Resolution, Gore caught Mireille in the brig talking to the prisoner, Luthiel, and fired her from her position as a deckhand in what might be considered a dick move?

In Roundabout, Captain Gore lead the expedition headed westward and dove into a shipwreck with Mirari to recover a chest full of gold.

In Paralysis, the squad got attacked by three lobster creatures and Laithe almost died but Gore insisted that they press on.

In A Change of Tune, the newer members of the Mistral's crew became highly agitated with Roland's behavior as a captain, immediately following a nearly-deadly encounter with a large bug-like creature and in the wake of a dangerous encounter with giant lobster creatures. His lack of leadership in anything but furthering a vague quest, perhaps at the cost of their lives, gave the crew the courage to voice their frustrations at him.

He managed to calm them down, briefly, by promising to listen to any demands and implement any policies once back aboard the ship. Unfortunately for him, Fry had already freed Luthiel from the brig and was waiting for the crew to return. As they climbed up the side of the ship, Fry lifted his glaive and shouted to his crew mates: "LET'S MUTINY!"

The crew was split into nearly three factions, and the fighting was chaos. Ducat's defense of Roland's life to not be marooned led Z to propose jailing him in the brig instead; everyone agreed. Unfortunately for Roland, Luthiel, having been trapped for weeks in the brig, harbored a heavy vendetta and shot him with a bolt of lightening. Twice.

He was healed just in time to live but has since not woken up. In Session 18: The Ladle, while the party was debating who was to lead the crew next, an invisible Anna Yoon retrieved the unconscious Gore from the quarters where he slept, and spirited him away from the Mistral.

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