Lore:The Pyrates of Antaloor - Volume III
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A General History of the Most Notorious Pyrates of Antaloor and Their Exploits
Captain Victor Garamont, alias The Midnight Shadow, and Eddra Iagos, alias Hell Cat.
Captain Victor Garamont alias The Midnight Shadow
Captain Garamont was the first man to have ever sailed as two captains, with two ships under his command, and on both sides of the law - at the same time.
Garamont's life began quietly and for a long time remained respectable. He joined the Thalyan navy at the age of 16 and began as a deckhand. By 30, he had made lieutenant, and on his 35th birthday the admiral promoted him to captain and gave him a ship of his own, "Victory's Dirge", to command. Even before Garamont took his post, "Victory's Dirge" was well-known as a guardian ship and spent most of her time docked at Thalya where it conducted short sorties up and down the coast to hunt for pirates.
We often become what we hunt, though. Garamount was seduced by piracy and did everything he could to share their company and hear their tales when one would be taken captive. Also, what the admirals did not know was that while Garamont dutifully spent his days on the right side of the law, each night he would desert to rejoin his family: his mistress, the infamous Eddra "Hell Cat" Iagos, and their bastard son. Over a year before his promotion, Garamount formed the habit of hiring known pirates to ferry him across the bay to the village where his family lived. Many of these same outlaws would become Garamount's crew when he began his double-life of outright piracy, years later.
Not much is known about how Garamont and the wench Iagos became lovers, but the general myth tells that earlier the same evening Iagos had slept with another lover, a small-time pirate by the name of Cecil Rathbone, captain of the sloop "Sun Snake". Rathbone was an obese man covered with hair in a most unpleasant fashion, called by some Small Bear, and it is believed Garamount slew Rathbone in single combat outside the brothel where Iagos lived after Small Bear was heard causing a ruckus in the room and a very drunk Garamount threw something through the window to quell the noise. Different accounts will tell of different objects: some say Garamount threw a knife, others a piece of rotten fruit, one even a wooden phallus. The last account should hardly be believed, given the most likely place Garamount would have found a wooden phallus to throw would have been inside the brothel, not without, unless he already had it in his possession. It is unknown if Garamount would have carried such an object on his person.
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[The story of Captain Garamont and Eddra should be continued here, but the book has been badly damaged by seawater and the remaining pages of the volume are missing. Perhaps the rest still exists somewhere...]