Legends of Belariath
Savergen
The legend of Savergen, the immortal pirate that spanned for 500 years, was the talk of all port towns. But the true behind such a story was simply a legacy unheard of, infact very few knew that the first Savergen had children, and that Savergen was just a family name. In all the generations, Savergen have all been human men.. until the last to inherit was a girl by the name of Nadia, an half elf.
The father of Nadia, Svereiz had trouble with his last heir being a female.. He had recently installed himself in Liparo, a port town that was known for its high criminal activities.. As a pirate, it was the perfect place for business. It dealth with everything: Scavenger hunts, retrieving stolen items from other thieves, assasin's requests and even slave trading. Even thought Nadia's father was a gentleman like all the other Savergen's of the other generations, he was still a pirate and he invested in the most benifitting requests no matter how foul it was. Liparo didn't have much children in it, most were the consequences of rape and then they were taken away from the victims to be sold as slaves, but boys seemed to get it less rough. As the girls were traded to be house slaves till their majority where they then became sex slaves.
As a father, Svereiz feared for little Nadia's future.. so decided to use the legacy as a protection for his daughter: He would dress Nadia as the next Savergen and avoid her a terrible fate. Being only with the mother of Savergen during the delivering, who was a slave elf that Svereiz payed to be released, nobody other then them knew she was really a girl. He would cut her hair every day when it looked too long, it had a nice silverish tone, quite a shame he thought as he stripped her off those beautiful strands.. He made her learn the pirate language, told her to never get naked before anyone and to go to the toilet when she needed to go. Fortunately, the young girl listened to those wise words, and was gradually becoming a bit of a tomboy from all that she learned and all that she shunned.
Normally Savergen's were trained until 18 until they were released on the sea by themselves but in this case she was a half elf. So he waited a couple of years and left her to go at the equivalent age of 16 instead which was 32 years old. The fact that Nadia was part elf had helped her alot, most of her to be crew who knew the secret of the legend thought she didn't have facial hair because of her elven blood,like it was more prominent in her. The same thing was said about her facial features and some of her manners which were a little effeminate. The disguise probably wouldn't have worked that well without that particular point.
Nadia was always with her father and very little with her mother, but there was some points during the travels that she felt envy toward the other girls which lived much better in other porttowns. Still the horrors that she was told about by her father frightened her and made her shun her own womanhood. Still Svereiz avoided the trader route to not show the darkside of being a pirate to a child.. He also avoided taking her to sea battles until she was atleast a teenager, to avoid spilling blood infront of her. In those moments he left her with a barmaid, who was secretely a thief and an informer for the man, she also knew Nadia's secret but didn't try to make a girl out of her, she was mostly busy with the amount of men who came to her tavern. She also seemed to be the only successful woman in Liparo who wasn't the servant of someone.
Svereiz taught her alot about fencing, talking to the ladies, being polite and yet ruthless. Nadia got her first scar during one of their practice when he told her she needed not fear killing as it was a common practice on the sea.. and her opponent wouldn't hesitate, demonstrating by slashing at her face. The cut happened just under her right eye.. Savergen was never a manly pirate so it wasn't a complete alienation to the girl. All she had to do was learn the roots of being a gentleman duelist, not change herself completely
When Nadia was old enough, it was time for her father to leave her the ship, the knowledge of everything else having been passed down, she was ready to be the next Savergen. She had her own crew and was finally captain of her ship dubbed Eternal. Still outside of fencing and stealing, the girl had one last trade to learn, slavery. Infact her usual informant said that he had a deal for her, and she took it not knowing at all what they meant by merchandise.. It was then that she saw many women in cages being put on her ship. She felt sick to her stomach, but needed the pay to live, so she did the job, shipping the slaves to another island. The more she did this, the more she became insensitive to it.. But still part of her thought of what would happen if she ended in the cage herself.. And she found a tear rolling down her face, all hot and warm.. She heard many cries of help, yet didn't do anything for them. At night she kept hearing them, it was pure torture, some nightmares of her being in that cage..
Until one day when she was 34, she heard that one of them had escaped.. But was caught by one of her man.. What little clothes she had were ripped off before Nadia's cobalt blue eyes, which stared in horror as the men proceded to violate her one at a time, considering she had 20 men.. This was pure torture to watch, the woman, a brunette kept holding out her hand toward Nadia for her to call off the assault. But Nadia couldn't.. it would blow her cover.. One of the man called out to her. "Too bad ye aren't of age, ye could know the joy of bein' a man.." "They never said, we had to keep her a virgin, captain." Another said with a laugh.. Nadia couldn't take it and went into her cabin, this was the first time something so horrible caught her eyes and ears. It was blamed on her being part elf once more.
From that moment on.. it happened again and again, the loud screams echoing in her mind. Each times, Nadia feeling sorry for the women and leaving when she caught the sight of it.. Gradually her crew began to lost respect of her, for not being man enough to see this.
It was a year later that she met Evanz, and things brightened up a bit, he became her rival and she had something else to think about. Evanz was another famous pirate but he was at the command of a king, so corsair defined him much more. The two enjoyed fighting each others, even if they did lose men. There was some kind of passion in both of their eyes. But that's when Nadia got her second scar across her nose and between her eyes, quite a more appearant one. But it wasn't that who struck Nadia the most.. it was Evanz red haired handsomeness, and his personality.. For the first time in her life, she crushed on a man.
It was a year later when she was finally an adult, that her feelings blossomed into full love.. but it was then that Evanz feelings changed for her as well, he always thought her to be a special man but.. then he saw something else, she felt awkwardwhen they fenced together.. different. It was then that he saw the long hair she had kept growing for a while fall on her shoulder and making her look like a woman..He grabbed her quickly before anyone could see and fell on the stairs of the basement of the ship with her tumbling over him..
"You're a woman.." He said to her simply, watching her with different eyes.. It was then that she felt ashamed of her disguise.. That she wanted to take it off completely, to show her true self, her breasts binded under that vest and mantle.. But she did nothing of the sort. "It's too complicated, Evanz.." She merely said to the man before he stole a kiss from her. Her first kiss, it was beautiful and yet so forbidden. "Leave.." She said toward him with a sad look on her face, bringing down the bandana to her hair and pulling it under it. "You bested me in battle.. alright." She added to this. And then Evanz nodded but not before drawing his dagger and marking her face with another small scar under her other eye. "This way its more realistic. As the battle was still going outside, the young woman kept his hand in her own for sometimes and then let go in regrets, unable to do more as he left her with a bloody cheek, her tears mixing with the now crimson tone of her flesh
After this, Evanz tried to avoid Nadia, as their love could screw her disguise up and both of their lives, being rivals.. Nadia felt it was for the best but couldn't help but be left heartbrokened.
It was a year later that Nadia faced the hardest ordeal of her life, as her reputation was being tainted by the fact that she refused to have sex with the girls that flirted with her.. So a mutinery was planned to overthrow the girl, as one of the eldest of the crew had enough of having a pansy for a captain.. Nadia felt the tension and knew that this would happen.. so she stayed alert amongst her men and especially at night in her own private cabin.
It was by a stormy night that it finally happened.. over all the noise of both rain and thunder she wouldn't hear the man coming, at least that's what he thought.. Nadia herself knew this was the best time, so she set a trap for the first one who would try, letting her door opened and sleeping with her sword and clothes on, something she never did since she could lock her door and the only window was an outside one that nobody could see from the deck.And so a cutlass was raised over her seemingly sleeping head and the woman reacted quickly only to find out that her rapier was stuck in its sheath.. for all the times for it to be stucked.. She didn't have time to evade completely tossing herself on the side inside as the blade cut into her vest and ripped out the bandages held to bind her breasts.. Her small breast was now showing the evidence of who she really was.. but it gave her just the time to stab the man in his neck to having her secret slip out.
The commotion however had alerted others and someone was quick to enter her room, even as she tried hiding her breast with the torn piece of cloth and push the door closed, the man she had killed had fell back and his head was blocking the door. So another man saw her furious and flushed and multiple others were coming this was bad.. "See what happen's when ya try to kill me!" She pointed to the man as an example, but the other man infront of her wondered why she would even cover her chest like that. "Are you wounded captain, let me see.." But there was no blood, so he suspected something with everything he had learnt of Nadia during the years. As he pulled her hand away, she slugged him hard with her sword hand and escaped her room knowing she'd eventually be cornered, just as other men were outside..
since her cabin was on the top of the both alot of men could surround it. She finally headed outside, only to see all the men staring at her,still covering her breast.. She tried to look slightly weak this time, being really nervous, that is until her little cover plan was busted by the man she thought she had knocked out who pulled her hand away from the cloth from behind, long enough for her to give up covering it.
"The captain is a she!" "Well now that makes things interestin'.. we just wanted to kill him and throw him at the sharks.. but now we get to hav'fun.." This was really bad, she had to get out of here.. but there was only one way out.. mother sea.. She finally noticed what was going on, 15 of her men had started a mutinery but each were trying to kill her for themselves.. it was there way of determining who would be captain.. so in the end they had trapped her after all. But now she feared more about her virginity than her life.. Remembering the horrors she had seen and heard. She would take her chance with the sea there was nothing more for her here..
And so she threw herself in the big blue, knocking out the men that tried to rip her clothes off or slash throught them with both her fencing and her brawling skills, until she finally pierced a way between the horny men.. She found the descent into water almost eternal as time stopped as she watched everything she was abandoning, being swallowed by water and carried around. The waves of the storm would eventually wash her over the coast of Nathalion.. And a new life for her would begin as an ex-captain. No ship, no mates, no ocean.. but still she would remain disguised until she wouldn't needed, continuing the legend of Savergen in her own way.