Editing Dark Tides:PlayerCharacters (section)

===Background===
I am the shadow in which nothing good or godly will ever grow.

Some would say the same of my father and mother. But I am not one to judge. I never knew my father for he died before I was born. A violent nor'easter took my father, the pirate Black Sam Bellamy's ship, the Whydah, down along with him and all but two of its 146-man crew. They were pulled down to their watery graves just past the witching hour of April 26th 1717. My mother, Mariah Hallett, who was known as the Witch of Wellfleet, stood on shore and saw the Whydah go down, making herself a widow and taking all chance of her happiness with it. But my father left her one last gift, a sorry one to be sure, for I was born six months later on Cape Cod, in the autumn of the reaper's last sowing.

I think a bit of that storm swept into my heart in my mother's womb and I know some of her grief did. She named me after my father's mother, Elisabeth, a good woman by all accounts. Undeserving of the legacy of her son and granddaughter. For like my father I sail the churning seas and like my mother I weave the way of the craft.

I am 28 and I wear my widow's weeds. No husband lies in the coffin that sails with me. For the pirate is still in my soul and that coffin holds what'ere brings the best price on the black market. No man pays the way of Black Bess Bellamy, the smuggler...at least not willingly.