Ak'har Salo

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Ak'har Salo - digital canvas by Özge Güngör (c) 2020

Identity

Name
Ak'har Salo
Title(s) and Rank(s)
Captain
Culture
Quzonian
Profession
Merchant, Sea Captain

Description

Ethnicity
Quzonian
Gender
Male
Age
37 sols, (383 YG -- )
Height
1.63 metres (5 feet 4 inches)
Build
Medium muscular build, 62.1 Kilograms (137 pounds)
Appearance
Ak'har is dark skinned, with a single brown eye. He wears his black hair in a shoulder length braid, with shaved sides, and a clean shaven face.
He wears a leather half mask to hide damage to the right side of his face from his bout of Seaman's Rot. His left ear sports three large gold earrings. On a silver chain about his neck hangs a silver/copper double crescent symbolic of the Goddess. Ak'har wears loose fitting pants and a silk shirt, an embroidered vest, a wide sash about his waist, and fancy high boots. His colour choices favour reds and yellows. He carries a scimitar and a seaman's axe at his hips.

Personality

Ak'har shows a certain bravado and is quite charismatic. He feels the Goddess has spared him from death to be an example to others to not fear the end. It will come when it does, and one should live courageously right up until the end.
Some think he is a dangerous person, due to his fearless approach to sailing, but he has yet to lose a crewman

About

Home
Sucosa, Quzonia
History
Ak'har is a bonded merchant of both the Merchantylers Guild, and the Seafarers Guild from Quozonia. He began his career as lowly deckhand on another merchant ship and sailed with them for several years. After he participated in the successful defence against pirates, he was promoted to third mate, and given the second-in-command role on the captured pirate ship, the Silver Reefling. Later in that same voyage, the first-mate fell ill and succumbed to seaman's rot; a disfiguring disease that eats away at ones flesh.
The Silver Reefling was declared a cursed ship as more of the crew caught the rot, so she was cut loose with the sick and dying aboard, lest they infect the captain's own ship and crew. Ak'har himself lost his right ear, most of his cheek, and the sight of that eye to the disease, but still managed to sail his ship into port with just three living souls aboard.
He wears a leather half mask, to hide the damage to his face, and still sails the Silver Reefling, having had all her stores burnt to cleanse her of the disease, followed by blessings by priests of Peolu.
He has had fair success despite his ship's reputation, mostly because he is willing to take nearly any legal cargo, sail thorough pirate waters without escort, and even take-runs in dangerous weather; believing that death already had its chance to claim him. Most of his crew are desperate, black-listed from other ships, or former criminals who cannot find work with lower risk. His first mate is Tavon Denish, the only other living survivor of the rot whom made it to shore, the third man died a short while after making it to port.
Despite the reputation of his ship, and that of his crew, he runs a clean operation. Ak'har is a respected member of both guilds, and has become something of a local legend in his home port of Sucosa.

Connections

Familial
Personal
Professional
Tavon Denish (first mate)

Stories

See Also

Silver Reefling