Description

Personality

Calder is a generally cheerful fellow, with a good head for numbers and as close to an honest merchant as you can get. He's not afraid to fight but knows the limits of his ship and crew and when he needs to run. More then one pirate was been surprised when his ship doesn't heave to at the sight of them.

Equipment

As the owner of the Sea Breeze, Calder can take anything he wants from the ship stores or it's weapon locker. he does keep a fine cutlass and a pair of flintlock pistols in his cabin however.

History

Calder was born the son of a Ulsttorish merchantman, growing up in the port city of Blackpool, on the eastern coast of Ulsttor. When he was twelve years old, his father took him aboard the Sea Breeze, to serve as a cabin boy. He spend four years working in the galley, carrying food to the sailors, waiting on the officers and passengers, learning about the sails, lines and ropes, climbing into the rigging to trim sails and standing watches. When he was sixteen, his father made him one of the crew and taught young Calder his letters (when he wasn't on duty). Until he was twenty eight, he served aboard the ship and when they were in port, he would accompany his father, learning the family trade. When his twenty-eighth birthday came around, he was made third mate. Within four years, he was the second mate (the man before him had gotten drunk and fallen overboard during the night).

When he was thirty-five, his father took ill and died, leaving the Sea Breeze to his son. Calder became captain of his own ship. For the past three years, his mother has been pestering him to get married, to the daughter of her acquittance, Ms. Ross. While thinking of marriage and children already, he's not really interested in Miss Ross and has yet to send his mother a letter telling her of this. He has find his own bride, one that didn't think it was funny to put ink in his tea when they were children.