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Abbas Thrax
Social Rank	3
Fealty	Thrax
House	Thrax
Gender	Male
Age	24
Religion	Pantheon
Vocation	Soldier
Height	6'
Hair Color	Black
Eye Color	Black
Skintone	Light Dusky
Family
Parents	Marjory Thrax, Asad Masah'Malek
Siblings	Sebastian Pravus, Juliana Pravus, Fatima Thrax
Uncles/Aunts	Lynette Thrax, Elton Thrax, Draco Thrax
Cousins	Jaenelle Velenosa, Dagon Thrax, Donella Thrax, Leona Thrax, Valerius Thrax, Denica Thrax, Wyatt Thrax
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Description

Two fierce pitch eyes engage the world from under a devil's brow. Abbas is born of two worlds. His father hails from the sand dunes of Eurus and his mother is a Thraxian princess and the union their union has left him with a medium brown skin tone. Black and white ink has tattooed his flesh in scale armor and tribal patterns. His hair is long and unkempt and clumps together in an untamed manner. The beard of the man is thick and full. Dark circles have been stained permanently around his eyes from war-dye application as a Reaver and it gives the Thraxian killer a haunting look. The man is young. His youth is offset by uncanny the streaks of silver-grey in both his hair and beard. His body reflects a Sea Serpent that has spent years awash in the blood and horrors of the thrall trade. He is both tall and battle-hardened. The dark look in his eyes suggests they have seen and done things that would make a hard man ill.

Personality

A hardened Reaver captain. Known for his strategic genius and admired as a Thraxian hero. Abbas is reviled by some for atrocities while Reaving by most others much like most Sea Serpent heroes.

Background

Abbas's mother, Princess Marjory Thrax, was no proper Thraxian woman in the eyes of Donrai Thrax. With far too much interest in sailing, Princess Marjory defied her father by accompanying a daring expedition to sail east to the rarely contacted continent of Eurus on a perilous voyage. Worse in the eyes of his grandfather, not only did Marjory have the temerity to succeed, but she returned with a husband, married without permission of her family, to the exiled Prince Asad of Petrioch, a royal fleeing a lost war of one of the distant Dune Kingdoms of Eurus. Prince Donrai Thrax had little choice but to recognize the marriage of the royals as Marjory was already with child, but it proved short lived- Prince Asad was found complicit in the plotting of the Tyde Rebellion and was executed by House Thrax, and Princess Marjory Thrax was all but exiled, married off to a Lord of House Pravus and unwelcome to the family.

Abbas Thrax dreamed of a life of Reaving and at a young age the man took to battles and studies. His focus was complete and nothing else even remotely entertained him as a child. Abbas barely related to other young children. Many times as a child he was disciplined and often praised for being too rough and too hard in fights upon other children.

Individual fights quickly bored the mind of Abbas. And he began to listen and put himself in a position to learn of fighting at a higher level. Tactics. The Prince took to Reaving younger than most boys. He lied about becoming a man in order to fill his urge to oar and sail upon the endless Salt. Many thought the young Abbas wanted to prove himself in light of his familial treachery. Some just saw a dark mind in the boy that hungered to get out and apply it.

Abbas was different. He had blooded himself before puberty while Reaving. The young man was ruthless and fate saw him survive his first few overmatched raids; where the physically weaker Abyss was forced to kill against the odds. Abbas was hardened to the Salt Life early to the life of taking captives and using them as thralls.

It was after his first raid upon a remote isle chain that Abbas distinguished himself by killing all the elderly; slitting their throats in a wild and uncaring disassociated way. When confronted the cold Abbas told the captain of his longship that killing the elderly was strategic.

He explained that the able of body were taken as thralls and yet there was never a shortage of bodies to rise up and resist. Abbas advised that there would always be men to slaughter but he wanted to make it so they did not have to pay such a steep blood price. He identified the remote nature of the islands and that by killing all the Elderly they were snuffing the wisdom and existing tribal relationships of the remote populations they had been targeting. And it turned out that after a few seasons the remote island populations were so devoid of knowledge and commonality that they began to give tributes in thralls rather than face the terrible butchery. Without the existing interconnected relationships they in turn took to raiding each other to supply the Thrax with thralls. This brilliance landed Abbas his first ship and put him forth as one of the youngest longship captains ever in Thraxian history. It also led to healthier and more able-bodied thralls. Abbas had done the planning to establish the numbers of tributes demanded in order to keep the island populations week and unable to break themselves from their manufactured chains. Meanwhile every season less Reavers suffered and died.

With his first ship at such a young age Abbas took to ranging wide and far. The ruthless Captain had a keen mind for the sea. His Reavers grew feared and tales of his heroics (atrocities) began to go back to his grandfather. He was soon given the command of three longships. And Abbas had the notoriety and reliability that he was allowed to range and raid outside of the common command chain of the fleet. He enjoyed a fairly autonomous experience and earned the reputation as the 'Lion of the Darkwater'.

Abbas spent years at sea. He seldom ventured home and amassed great wealth for the Thraxians. His thralls often fetched a higher price for their exotic nature as he acquired a myriad of long-ranging places where he would raid. The further he went out the more ruthless he could be and so the Prince thrived.

The young Thraxian hero's last expedition took four longships straight across the darkwater into Eurus. And his Reaving expedition was vaunted and heralded. He returned to Maelstrom ahead of schedule and had suffered tremendous losses on the voyage. Only a few of his Reavers survived and many of those were never the same again. Abbas hair during this expedition turned grey.

Now Abbas is a young man with a reputation as a hero. Whispers of other houses call him a butcher. But amongst the Thraxian tales of his deed are received with honor and praise. None will deny his fierceness and barbarity for his exploits upon the Salt.