Editing Maro (section)

===Character Story===
He knows the shark-tooth necklace is how the Shark God knows his own. He doesn't know what the symbols carved in it mean, because the village elder was the only one who knew, and he was carved up by pirate swords while Maro lay hidden under the floor of his family's hut. He was the only one left alive in the village when his aunt and uncle returned from trading in Tortage, so the returned with him to the pirate port, where you schemed for every mouthful of food while watching for knives in the back. The day his aunt told him the story of the village he left for the docks and joined the first crew that would have him - a Kushite corsair, as it happened. He knew he would need to be a pirate to kill a pirate, and a pirate captain to kill a pirate captain.

The days passed, tedium punctuated with sudden death, when a man came about wearing a shark-tooth necklace, carved with strange symbols. Words were exchanged. Knives were drawn. Blood stained the decks, the ship underway, no challenge offered or accepted. For his offense, Maro was marooned on a nameless island. He survived. And survived. And survived. He'd lost track of the days before a soft-hearted Mitran captain paused on his voyage home to Messantia to take him aboard, two shark-tooth necklaces hung around his neck...