Kyrian Mizutsuki

Captain Kyrian "Bloodmoon" Mizutsuki was one of the most notorious pirate lords in the history of the Web, terrorizing the seas of the The World of Crystal in antiquity. Kyrian was ruthless, conniving, and an outrageous liar, even for a pirate; he made all sorts of spurious claims about his parentage, in particular. His usual story was that he was secretly a Lunarian prince, a claim usually believed due to his unusual appearance. At the height of his power, Kyrian led a fleet of five vessels: his beloved flagship, The Danse Macabre; The Flying Eldrakyn, captained by Mordithal the Black, The Night Shade, captained by Famriel ; The Devil's Gambit, captained by Feng Li Sao; and The Leviathan, captained by Shakala Hawkeye.

Background

Kyrian was the bastard son of a powerful, distinguished Hai-Xsian samurai named Mizutsuki Saitou, and the fiesty daughter of a Baronian clan-chief, Siobhan, who was gifted to him in exchange for peace between the clan and the Empire. Saitou himself was half-Lunarian, a fact he tried to keep buried as much as possible, along with the fact of his bastard half-breed son. Kyrian knew his father as a distant figure who made sure he and his mother were well-kept, but had little respect for either of them. Though Kyrian had a variety of tutors and enjoyed a surprisingly upper-class existence, his parentage and ancestry ensured that he would never get far in traditional Hai-Xsian society, and he seethed with resentment toward the nobility that he felt feared and oppressed him. He spent his nights as a petty street thief, but was restless, and ran away to become a merchant sailor. It was during this period in his life that the young boy would grow to fall in love with the sea, but when his vessel was attacked by pirates some months later, he bargained for his life with the captain and joined the crew. Kyrian absolutely adored the pirating life for the freedom and power it gave him; the sort of life he could never have as a bastard half-breed in the Empire. At the ripe age of sixteen, he led a mutiny and took command of the ship, The Danse Macabre, and along with his crew sacked and plundered coastal towns across the Empire.

Personality and Appearance

Well over six feet tall, with long, silky blood-auburn hair and the flawless pale skin and almond shaped, silvery blue eyes that marked his Lunarian heritage well, Kyrian cut a striking figure, and was quite a commanding presence wherever he went. He was a notorious womanizer, with a wench in every port, and was as notorious for his hedonism as he was for his greed and ruthlessness. Rather curiously for a pirate, he had a great disdain for alcohol of any sort; he felt it dulled his wits and made him vulnerable to his (many) enemies, though he was known to partake of opium from time to time while relaxing in the bathhouses in Xsia he often frequented, and had a great love of fine, exotic foods. He also had a fondness for animals, and was never seen without his pet monkey, Banshee (named as such for her horrible shriek). Kyrian almost always wore white, to signify his belief that he was as "death upon the waters", and had an odd fascination with death in general.