The Ebon Cipher

Type: Astral Sailor

Design description: Sleek, curved hulls and massive solar sails reminiscent of Treasure Planet ships, but fused with infernal design—brass struts, hellforged anchor-claws, and glowing sigils woven into the rigging. The ship hovers above the Astral Sea like a black stingray with sails of translucent crystal that ripple like stained glass. Faint frost clings to the outer hull due to the infernal magic saturating its captain.

Ship Features:

• Planar Engine Core: Powered by a bound soul-forge crystal harvested from the lower planes.
• Deck Weapons: Arcane bolt batteries, soul-harpoon launchers, and a chained “gravity lance” that can pierce planar shields.
• Internal Network: Echo-chambers along the hull transmit whispers across the ship—used for silent orders.
• Infernal Wake: Leaves behind a spectral frost trail, crackling with whispers from damned sailors lost to the sea between worlds.

Captain: Admiral Tyrakhel "The Icebrand"

• Race: Ice Devil Teifling
• Origin: Former admiral of the Strigan Navy, a close confidant of Calico during his uprising but exiled after he was caught by calico with his daughter, Valintine. He was stripped of rank and title, but escaped execution by fleeing to the Astral Sea.
• Appearance: Tall and monstrous, Tyrakhel is a icey blue teifling with glacial armor plating, curling ice-covered horns, and a voice that echoes like wind across a frozen lake. His breath turns the air into snow as he speaks.
• Personality: Cold, strategic, and ruthless—but intensely loyal to those who earn it. Sees Valintine as the one force in the multiverse capable of thawing his heart.
• Reputation: Known among pirate circles as a captain who commands and demands unquestioning loyalty, and is not afraid to sacrifice a few pawns for his objective. In exchange, his crew have a captain that few others can match in tactical and strategic thinking.

Crew Members (6 Total)

1. Sivex "Sparkjaw"

• Race: Mephit (Magma)
• Role: Engineer and Mechanist
• Details: Wears a reinforced exo-harness made of salvaged Modron parts. Constantly tinkering, often muttering in Infernal and Primordial. His tools are fused to his arms via heat-resistant chains.
• Quirk: Laughs uncontrollably when something explodes—even if it wasn’t supposed to.

2. Nalara of the Last Breath

• Race: Reformed Night Hag
• Role: Navigator / Dream-Seer
• Details: Sees through folded layers of reality using a planar sextant. Uses dream magic to plot safer courses through the Astral Sea and its chaotic currents.
• Quirk: Keeps a bone tea kettle and insists on serving dream-brew to the crew, which sometimes causes visions.

3. Korrux the Chained

• Race: Ice Devil
• Role: Quartermaster and Disciplinarian
• Details: Carries a ledger of soul-debts and payment schedules written in infernal glyphs. Keeps order with terrifying calmness.
• Quirk: Refuses to speak above a whisper. Even when angry.

4. Mellion “Dustwalker” Vex

• Race: Githzerai (exiled monk)
• Role: Deckmaster and Boarding Leader
• Details: Controls the magnetic rigging and maneuver systems using psionics. Specializes in zero-gravity combat.
• Quirk: Believes the ship is a living being and whispers apologies to it after every battle.

5. Rask the Hollowed

• Race: Warforged (Planar—originating from Mechanus)
• Role: Gunner and Ballistics Officer
• Details: Was reprogrammed after being captured in a battle with modron enforcers. Now fires arcane ordnance and tracks trajectories with frightening precision.
• Quirk: Ends every sentence with “...as calculated,” whether or not it was.