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Hodges Mortensen

Biography:
Lechter Mortensen, the great-grandson of a wealthy and famous pirate captain, sat at a card table in a Thilia tavern, cursing loudly and tearing at his beard. He had lost all his money. All members of the Mortensen family were more or less prone to gambling; Lechter's addiction was compounded by pathological bad luck.
"Come on, calm down. You can still win it back..." said Lechter's opponent.
"Shut your mouth! I have nothing left! Nothing!"
"As far as I know, you have a wife and son, if you understand what I mean. Come on, be brave. I bet two thousand."
"Well, maybe my luck will change someday," thought Lechter Mortensen. Besides his gambling addiction, he suffered from many other vices, including a love for alcohol, and that day Lechter was drunk, although it is doubtful that he would have made a different decision even when sober.
"Okay, deal!"
"Excellent, excellent," Mortensen's opponent smiled and began dealing the cards.

Lechter lost. The next day, he would sober up and commit suicide by slitting his wrists. His wife and son were sent to the slave market.
All these events took place about fifteen years ago.
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Slave number twenty-four lies face down in the dust. A foreman beats him with a stick.
"Lazy beast! Get up and go to work!"
Number twenty-four does not get up. First, he physically cannot rise under the hail of blows. The foreman wouldn't understand this. Second, he doesn't intend to. For several years now, the descendant of the legendary Captain Mortensen, Hodges Mortensen, has been wearing the shameful chains of slavery, but over the years, neither humility nor obedience has increased. Scars from beatings do not disappear from his back. Number twenty-four still hopes to escape. He hopes that someday he will be lucky.

And one day he got lucky. Under cover of night, some of the slaves managed to break their chains and rushed towards freedom.

This happened about ten years ago.
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Salty sea spray splashed on Hodges Mortensen's face, once a slave and now a boatswain on one of Captain Ward's ships. Six years have passed since his liberation. He enjoys the adventurous free pirate life. During pirate raids, Hodges became wealthy; he gets everything he could wish for from life.
Unfortunately, during one of the raids, Mortensen was seriously wounded and forced to leave piracy. He began leading a settled life in Illiara, but did not find himself suited to peaceful activities and within a few years squandered all his wealth. The old wounds healed, and it was time to take up arms again, abandon the mundane life that had burdened the former pirate, and set out in search of money and adventure. Hodges Mortensen took down a dusty weapon from the wall, gathered his last savings, and headed to Yochelton, where he planned to join some mercenary group.
Race: human
Nationality: Thilian
Origin Bonus: "Annabelle"
Skills:
Adventurer