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=== [[Astral Sea Freebooters: Samhain|Samhain]] ===
<i>(Eladrin, Wizard, Unaligned)</i>

Samhain grew up between freeport and skull island on any ship that he could hitch/sneak a ride. When he was old enough to be a  cabin boy, he found his home on ship The Flying Hydra.  Captain "kid" (a halfing pirate) ran a tight ship with a misfit crew of degenerates and criminals.

The captain one day handed Samhain a book and told him "Knowledge is the ultimate power in the whole astral sea."  Little did he know that he just handed Samhain a recently dead wizard's spellbook and little did Samhain know that his true share went back into the captain's pocket.

So Samhain studied, hard, for over the next few years. Being labeled a rogue arcanist helped him move up the ranks to become the captain's right-hand man. 

That is about when their piracy got noticed by  The Varian Confederation. It wasn't the raiding of small communities, the plundering of local ships, or even housing lesser criminals that got their attention. It was Raiding a Confederation ship and holding it's captain ransom ( The ship was The S.S. Armageddon, one of the largest Varian battle ships they have. The captain, who is still alive, is the Notorious Capt. Franicis "Bulldog" Valleymen). The Varian Confederation blew the Flying Hydra out of the astral sea and into the bowels of  pandemonium. Very few crew members survived the attack and Captain Kid betrayed his own crew to flee. 

Samhain was blamed for putting the Varian Confederation in harms way (as they snuck out of Hegemony territory) and they gave him a one way ticket express trip to Carceri (no trial and no paper trial).


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