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<b>Lyranthine Ebon-Eyed</b> was a [[half-elven]] [[High Captain]] of [[Port Skaug]], a powerful [[illusionist]], and a prominent merchant during the [[third century Valanthe]]. The Skaugan main is a dangerous sea – pirates scour its surface, unknown beings lurk in its depths – so many of the high captains in the region gained their fame and position in battle. Not so Lyranthine Ebon-Eyed, who knows that lives of danger breed other demands, and constant violence is simply another kind of economic opportunity. A bastard half-caste born into poverty in the slums of Port Skaug, she witnessed firsthand the immense appetite of sailors for [[drugs]], [[pornography]] and other such delicacies, and the wealth available to those who furnished them. With nothing to leave behind, she stowed away on a merchant ship in the early days of [[Valanthe]], intending to acquire her share of this fortune. | <b>Lyranthine Ebon-Eyed</b> was a [[half-elven]] [[High Captain]] of [[Port Skaug]], a powerful [[illusionist]], and a prominent merchant during the [[third century Valanthe]]. The Skaugan main is a dangerous sea – pirates scour its surface, unknown beings lurk in its depths – so many of the high captains in the region gained their fame and position in battle. Not so Lyranthine Ebon-Eyed, who knows that lives of danger breed other demands, and constant violence is simply another kind of economic opportunity. A bastard half-caste born into poverty in the slums of Port Skaug, she witnessed firsthand the immense appetite of sailors for [[drugs]], [[pornography]] and other such delicacies, and the wealth available to those who furnished them. With nothing to leave behind, she stowed away on a merchant ship in the early days of [[Valanthe]], intending to acquire her share of this fortune. | ||
Soon discovered by the ship’s crew, Lyranthine would have been put to death but for her immense intelligence and gift for legerdemain. At first, she was kept alive only as an amusement. But her usefulness was immediately apparent, and soon she was recalculating their routes, streamlining their supply chains, renegotiating their agreements, and slowly establishing her grasp on the organization. By the [[third century | Soon discovered by the ship’s crew, Lyranthine would have been put to death but for her immense intelligence and gift for legerdemain. At first, she was kept alive only as an amusement. But her usefulness was immediately apparent, and soon she was recalculating their routes, streamlining their supply chains, renegotiating their agreements, and slowly establishing her grasp on the organization. By the [[third century Valanthe|third century]], some two hundred years later, she had gained control one of the largest private merchant fleets in the archipelago, running [[liquor]], intoxicants, [[Hinazka prayer-books]], smutty novels, minor magical and mechanical amusements – anything a sailor might need – throughout the [[Skaugan Main]]. Lyranthine Ebon-Eyed knows what people want, and specializes in providing it – or the illusion of it. | ||
In her many travels and trade junkets, Lyranthine acquired, in addition to a variety of provocative conversation pieces, one of the largest private libraries of books mundane and magical. Through careful study over two centuries, she became a powerful wizard, specializing in deception, illusion, and other skills useful to the modern businesswoman. Though in her early life she led ships and crews throughout the known world, by the time of [[The Fishwives]] she only rarely disembarked from her pleasure-barge [[The Sea Deviant]], spending her days studying shipping charts and magical tomes in her study and her nights sipping wine and listening to the elven bards’ serenades on the garden decks as she contemplates the moon. | In her many travels and trade junkets, Lyranthine acquired, in addition to a variety of provocative conversation pieces, one of the largest private libraries of books mundane and magical. Through careful study over two centuries, she became a powerful wizard, specializing in deception, illusion, and other skills useful to the modern businesswoman. Though in her early life she led ships and crews throughout the known world, by the time of [[The Fishwives]] she only rarely disembarked from her pleasure-barge [[The Sea Deviant]], spending her days studying shipping charts and magical tomes in her study and her nights sipping wine and listening to the elven bards’ serenades on the garden decks as she contemplates the moon. | ||
Tales of the beautiful and ruthless Lyranthine abounded. Rumor held that her vast pleasure fleet concealed darker trades – in weapons, slaves, prostitutes, espionage, or even forbidden magic, but her cunning and power of illusion obscured the true nature of her business. | Tales of the beautiful and ruthless Lyranthine abounded. Rumor held that her vast pleasure fleet concealed darker trades – in weapons, slaves, prostitutes, espionage, or even forbidden magic, but her cunning and power of illusion obscured the true nature of her business. | ||