Cagrosan the Explorer

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The Explorer Daniel Cagrosan

Mad they call me - Mad! Can you believe that? I scour the frozen seas in search of lands beyond our horizons! I search for answers to the greatest questions of our people! I lead the charge to discover the truths of eras long buried by the Dark Age! If I must tango with a few horrible beasties from time to time in my quest, then so I shall be akin to our Great Heroes! For their missions were nothing if not perilous!

— Cagrosan upon departing on his fifth voyage.

The man referred to as Cagrosan was granted many titles during his relatively brief life, though none of them were as important to him as "the Explorer." This of course was do to his constant thirst and desire of the secrets of the world before the - at that point - recent Dark Age. While his exploits during the time were often ridiculed as mad and ridiculous, none in modern Alore can refute the usefulness need for his many findings. And thanks to his personal obsession with keeping logs on all his findings, as well as his personal affairs, a number of scientific and historical matters could be confirmed and accounted. Despite his tragic demise at the fangs of a frozen Seprai, his fate marked the event by which the Cagrosan Sea was named by Gjalva himself.

Mental characteristics

Personal history

Not much is truly known of the man Cagrosan was before his explorations, thanks in part to the onset of the First Calamity which destroyed a vast amount of Alorean history concerning the First Era. What is known about him is that he appeared out of nowhere in Dawnglen with a large fortune, which he used immediately to purchase a ship and hire his crew. From that time, he spent most of his life on the open ocean, returning to ports across Gjalvalore to both gather supplies and report his findings to his patrons. He became obsessed with the fragments of ancient histories that he would find throughout the southern polar ice-cap, convincing himself in time that he could solve the mystery of pre-Dark Age Alore. 

Your reckless disregard of the safety of you, your crew, and your ship leaves much to be desired. Should you return to me again with simple shards of antique metals at the cost of lives of safety thereof - like you have been so want to do recently - I will have no choice but to revoke your seafaring licences.

— Great Hero Gjalva to Cagrosan before setting out on his final voyage.

Cagrosan eventually became so obsessed with his findings that he began to endanger the lives of himself and his crew in order to continue deeper into the arctic waters. After a few instances of this, Gjalva himself came to Dawnglen and chastised him for his reckless behavior. Cagrosan, in his maddened state, foolishly set off with sheer anger by himself on his vessel. Before he was able to get more than a few miles off the coastline, however, the ship was set upon by an icy Seprai, splitting the vessel in two in an instant. Gjalva, who was observing this from the sandy beach, could not help but burst into cacophonous laughter at the sight of something so well timed. It was by this event that he named the southern seas after Cagrosan, the man so full of ambition tempered and felled by foolhardy disrespect of the waters he sailed.

Accomplishments & Achievements

Through the journals of his many voyages into the icy south, Cagrosan was able to provide the historians of the time with enough pieces of ancient, man-made materials to begin theorizing. And although most of their work was erased in the First Calamity, the foundations set within their theories and articles allowed historians of the Second Era to form a current working hypothesis which remains in place to this day: that the sudden appearance of a powerful demon lord caused the fall of humanity and the beginning of the Dark Age. Research into this hypothesis is of course still ongoing, but even this much could not have been possible without the findings of Cagrosan the Explorer.

Species

Aloreans

Conditions

• Physica Dementaurum

Date of Birth

3rd of Voruzel, 530 AFE

Life

530 583

Circumstances of Death

Cagrosan died in a manner most bizarre, especially considering its timing. After engaging in a heated debate with the Great Hero Gjalva, Cagrosan set off on what would have been his greatest voyage yet, and his ship was promptly and immediately devoured.

Gender

Male

Eyes

Deep brown coloration, with the sockets being slightly sunken

Hair

Dark, sandy blonde, being short and very well cut

Skin Tone/Pigmentation

Tanned and freckled

Height

5' 8" (1.7 m)

Weight

157 lbs (71 kg)

Quotes & Catchphrases

A man who does not learn from history is a fool.

The ancient secrets of the forgotten world are the most important pieces of our future.