Editing Psamanthe ('Sam') (section)

==Background==
'''Psamanthe ('Sam')'''

About twenty years ago, a young Esrolian fisherman (well, woman) was swept into a little travelled part of the sea by a storm. She encountered a local sea-god, Nereus, who had a roving eye where women were concerned. Using his godly charms, he had little difficulty in securing his desired outcome and, having filled her nets with a tremendous catch, saw her safely home. 9 months later a daughter was born, whom the woman named Psamanathe (Sam for short); the woman kept silent about the father's identity, not wishing her daughter to be subject to fear and superstition, though she did tell the girl herself as soon as she was old enough to keep this secret.
Psamanthe loved her mother and, despite the fact that she felt the call of the sea, she stayed by her side. That ended when a pestilence passed through the area, killing her mother. After that, at the age of nine, Psamanthe ran away to sea.. From then on until recently she lived as a sailor. Very recently, after an injury caused by pirates trying to board her ship, the ship's surgeon (and the rest of the crew) discovered her birth-mark and she was forced to leave for foreign lands.

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