Arthur "Stone Giant Dancer" Raoult

As the waves crashed the sides of the ship, the men yelled out and jumped for their lives as the boom swung from side to side, the rain stang like wasps in our faces, and the thunder crackled hard all around us. There was chaos all around, but as I looked down upon his face; never had I seen a calmer man, calm as the breeze on a summer day in Chambéry, he stood; dancing his dance with Stone Giants

— Anne Belyea on her watch in the Crow's nest during The Dance with Stone Giants

The famous Captian of Kingsale and the largest trade-fleet of Port du Monde. This man could accomplish more in a few years than most people only dared hope to do in a lifetime.
Legendary for his ability to lead entire fleets through unknown waters in the harshest conditions and knowing every rock in waters he travelled regularly. His accomplishments would even later in life give him his title as Senator despite his lack of noble blood.
In his younger days he was also a man of war; joining the fleet at the age of 16 he worked long and hard, earning him the acknowledgement of peers as well as superiors. At the early age of 28, he was granted the title of captain with a ship of his own. Many said that such a young lad could never earn the respect of the wind-weathered crewmen of the Foudre; he would later prove them wrong.
Only three months after he was granted his own ship, the Senate put upon him a seemingly impossible task; a rescue mission to retrieve the goods of a beached trade fleet led stray by the weather into the sea mountains northeast of Désert de Feu. A task suspected by many to be a deliberate suicide mission by the Senate to humiliate him by making him decline the mission. They suspected that the Senate feared his popularity rising in the fleet as well as the civilian population, fearing what a non-noble man rising in the ranks could bring. However, despite everyone's expectations, Arthur accepted. He proved everybody wrong and steered his ship and crew into waters until now fabled to be impenetrable, in what would later be described as "A Dance with Stone Giants" by the crew. Arthur managed to find and save the survivors and safely travel back into open waters. On that fated day, not only was 83 citizens of Plaisir saved but the name "Arthur Raoult" was written into the history books with ink, never to be forgotten.
After his deeds became common knowledge there was no stopping his fame; for if there is one thing that is more powerful in Plaisir than the Senate, it is the gossiping of the common man. He rose in the ranks in the military and after he led the skirmish to rid the waters around l'Ille of the harpies which infested the small islands and rocks, praying on the civilian ships sailing back and forth to the mainland, he was granted a landed title.
After being granted a landed title, Arthur retired from the military and started his own fleet. Arthur built the Kingsale, one of the greatest ships ever seen, and put it as the flagship in "Roaults Commerce". This trade fleet became, if not the, then one of the largest Trade Fleets in all of Plaisir, and no other fleet trades as far and wide as Roaults Commerce. With Arthur himself in the lead, this fleet even claims to transport goods through the Sea Mountians.
As his final act, this great man mounted the campaign against the removal of the Forest of l'Ille. Many say that the forest would already have been removed if it hadn't been for him. His death came on the day of the fifth vote on the Sanctuary Status of the Forest of l'Ille. His death was shrouded in mystery and resulted in the fifth and final postponing of the vote which led to fateful Senate vote of 892

Life

826 AD 892 AD 66 years old

Circumstances of Death

Killed under spurious circumstances; it is suspected that he was poisoned in the Harbor of Chambéry and later died from this poison on his way to the fifth episode of the Senate Vote regarding the sancturary status of the southern forest of l'Ille.