Lore:The Pyrates of Antaloor - Volume VIII
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A General History of the Most Notorious Pyrates of Antaloor and Their Exploits
Captain Pitt, alias The Werewolf.
Murder and torture were nothing unusual to Captain Pitt, also called the Werewolf. Pitt, a man so bestial that, failing to find a fitting comparison among the creatures of the sea, earned the moniker from his very companions of "The Werewolf" - a name he proudly adopted - was known for acts of such brutality that those who sailed with him would rarely speak of his acts when on land when wenching or deep in their cups, often stating instead that they would rather "drink to forget" than mention even a single one.
Still, The Werewolf and his ways were notorious enough that many primary sources have survived, enough to allow historians to piece together the story of the man's wicked life. Pitt was born in the cold North, to a hardworking family of immigrants, supposedly given to become a butcher. Yet young Pitt's apprenticeship at the slaughterhouse was cut short. As one witness put it, the boy was supposedly "too keen" in his duties with a knife and an axe. Rumor had it that Pitt actually enjoyed the sight of the blood draining from the animals, and would sit there watching with wide hungry eyes, muttering "Squick, squick, squick" and clapping softly.
Pitt, only fourteen when the slaughterhouse where he worked caught fire and burned down, joined a mercanteering crew as a deckhand and sailed the very next morning.
He was made assistant to Aloysius Pyet, the merchant who owned the ship, whom he served until the age of sixteen. One morning while the ship was being signaled by a passing schooner apparently sending the distress signal, the captain ordered his men to investigate, and Pyet told young Pitt to give him his customary shave. As the ships came closer and closer together, the distressed ship suddenly raised the Jolly Rodger, revealing itself as a pirate vessel. The skull-and-bones were inverted, and everyone knew immediately what it meant: the flag was that of Wroth Titanius, a small-time pirate known for his penchant for keeping "momentos" of the men and women he killed, pieces of flesh from their unmentionables. The only thing Titaniu was said to love more than his little keepsakes was gold, it was known. When told of this, Pyet agreed to pay. Titanius boarded the ship and accepted the ransom from Pyet's ambassador's.
As the pirates went to collect their dues, a bloody scream was heard and young Pitt emerged from Pyet's cabin, holding a bloody shaving razor in one hand - and Pyet's severed head in the other. "Y'can have the gold, y'can," one first-hand account recalls him saying, "And we don't even need to bargain." Some sources say the head was then thrown overboard, or to the pirate captain who deftly caught it with one hand, inspiring an impromptu game of football on the deck of the ship with Pyet's own head as the ball. Depending on which of these varying accounts one is taken to believe, it may have been Pitt's skilled feet that earned him a commission to join the pirate's crew, or it may have been the simple show of brutality itself. Either way, most of the crew had a better day than Pyet.
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[The story of Captain Kemperz 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...]