Tyrannia Tombs

Her Excellency, Baroness of the Valley and Seas Tyrannia Tombs (a.k.a. the Red Renegade, the Pirate Queen, the Mistress of the Drowned)

Art Credit: Kate Draws, Twitter Handle @tacticiankate, Sexy Pirate Lady

Mental characteristics

Personal history

Originally from Kymera, Tyrannia Tombs is the daughter of two dockworkers who raised her by the coast with a great appreciation of sailing and the sea. One of the largest on the island, Kymera is a city that attracts people from far and wide, a truly metropolitan area in a country dominated by elven races. Kymera has such a rich diversity because of its proximity to an island off the coast of Themeria called Rimoji, a hospitable refuge that acts as a rest point for voyages from Terisirae to the Sister States. Tyrannia spent much of her childhood at ports and on docks assisting travelers and vessels of all sizes to reach their destinations, becoming enamored with the freedom of the open sea and the promise of blue eternity.
This appreciation become an obsession when she turned 16, finally old enough to captain her own ship, even if it was a small schooner with a crew of just 6, the Flying Eelfish. There were many rules and regulations that governed all maritime travel in the channels where she helmed, and she hated all of them. Tyrannia had a knack for running a ship and for guiding it in the most treacherous of conditions, but doing so meant she regularly broke rules and flouted procedure. After 6 months, the Flying Eelfish was impounded and she was stripped of her rank. Determined to get back on the waters, Tyrannia snuck onto the docks and stole a ship several times larger, crewing it with just herself and two other foolhardy friends whose skills she respected. After making a grand display of their ability to control vessels meant to be crewed by dozens of trained men, the three brought the ship back to port and were promptly charged with Trespassing, Reckless Endangerment, Grand Theft Auto, as well as a litany of minor infractions. Tyrannia received three years probation and was forbidden from even riding on a ship as a passenger for recreational or work purposes during that period. This would not be the last time she got in trouble with the law.
Eventually, Tyrannia left her family and Kymera to go West. She initially planned on crossing the Valley of Death to begin anew in Themeria but found herself entranced again by the sea. The waters of the Sister State's interior were so much different than those of Rimoji. The waves were calmer, but could easily be provoked by weather and fey. Isolated storms would appear with a deluge of rain and then disappear in less than an hour. Rocky crags were a regularity and avoiding them was often a guessing game of which wave would rise and which would fall.
More importantly for her, the distance between the two islands was several magnitudes larger than between Kymera and Rimoji. Ships were truly gargantuan by comparison, each of them blasting through the waves like mounted cavalry with a regiment of war drummers and trumpets at their heels. Her first time traveling the Valley, she peered over the hull to see a pod of whales traveling within sight, some of them even larger than the ships she was surrounded by. Hooked immediately, Tyrannia ran odd jobs in port towns for five years to save enough money and buy her own ship with her own crew so she could join in the most lucrative business there was: piracy. She had encountered many in her years and even lost a fair sum to their banditry, but she was convinced that a pirate's life was a life for her; permanently on the water, never obligated to regard laws or legislation, and finally able to put her skills to good use. Over years of successful piracy, Tyrannia was able to use her fortune to construct the largest, most menacing, most dread-instilling ship yet known to the Sister States, The Tombstone. It was only the beginning of her career as a legendary pirate.

Accomplishments & Achievements

As a venerated pirate lord, Tyrannia Tombs has a long list of accomplishments and plunder. To keep this section short, only her most daring and impressive deeds will be listed:
In Y.E. 1121, while in custody at a Kymera jail, Tombs coordinated a building-wide security failure that directly lead to the escape of 17 individuals, including herself. As they escaped and the city guard followed in pursuit, they soon found that the security failure affected more than just the jail, and all of their ships had been sabotaged or rigged to burn. She and the escaped inmates spent the next few hours sailing a few hundred feet away from the coast taunting their would-be captors.
In Y.E. 1127, Tombs was engaged in naval warfare with a larger ship that she and her crew were attempting to rob. She boarded the ship alone with six-hundred feet of rope and, over the course of several cutlass duels, managed to stealthily tie a length of rope to each of the ship's 18 cannons. She left back to her own ship, tied each rope end to a case of cannonballs that she threw overboard, dragging each of the cannons into the water, completely disarming her quarry.
In Y.E. 1134, just a year before her retirement from piracy, she led 10 Q'al Cune warships up the Valley of Death into a pod of migrating Whirlpool Whales, magical creatures from Ob-3 that have been known to sink any vessel that travels too close to them. For 16 hours, Tyrannia and the ships at her heels navigated the waters in a tense chase. Q'al Cune's forces fell one by one and she was able to double back down the valley, 10 warships sunk without a single cannonball fired.

Morality & Philosophy

Tyrannia has little regard for laws and statutes; however, she harbors a deep and poetic appreciation for morality. She believes that strength should not be contained, even if it means a few people get hurt in the process.
According to her, it is a far greater tragedy that a truly spectacular individual be shackled to mediocrity than it is for a mediocre person to be inconvenienced, or even grievously beset. Many who have become crew members of the Tombstone or personal friends of Tyrannia do so by somehow convincing her that they are not an average person and that they can achieve great things given proper resources.
Tyrannia also has little faith in gold and money. She understands the value of a high income but sees little point in amassing great wealth with no intention to spend it, a strange predilection for a pirate. She once robbed a naval freighter transferring a large shipment of gold to be deposited in a bank further downstream. A week later, she was practically throwing the money to any random passersby in Port Acuity, telling them to spend it on whores and gambling if they couldn't find anything better to invest in. She was even quoted by a local crier saying "I am no dragon. Spend this gold or eat it, as long as it is no longer mine."

Current Status

Sailing the Valley's of Death and Renewal

Age

42

Date of Birth

Nightal 2nd

Birthplace

Kymera, Theotia

Pronouns

She/Her

Sex

Female

Gender

Woman

Presentation

Feminine

Eyes

Amber orangish brown

Hair

Like a mane of fire

Skin Tone/Pigmentation

Sun-kissed Tan

Height

6'2"

Weight

177 lbs

Belief/Deity

Auril, the Frostmaiden