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Within a year Sir Adelard Jurand would, on his own funding and family resources based out of Calais, lead a reprisal raid against a cove of pillagers based in the Norsikaan mainland itself, a feat unheard of since the War of Borders at the height of northern aggression in Pascae and Fallavon. That this particular razed settlement may or may not have had any connection at all to the recent Norsikaan raids along the Pascae coast mattered little to the adoring Port Bounty crowds who cheered at the vessel's triumphant return.
He is the only living knight known to have personally slain a sea serpent, engaging and despatching the beast as it attacked another ship before then sinking said ship and putting to the sword every man on it when it became apparent it was a pirate vessel.
Not content with limiting himself to that legendary fleet in addition to enraging two foreign powers the Wave of Calais, along with a growing flotilla that included a few ships from House Vidra, would spend the next few years patrolling the breadth of Canton’s southern coastline seizing or putting to the torch every Cathagi galley, dhow and fishing raft that came within sight of their sails. You had heard that he perished there in the Cathagi Strait some years ago, all hands lost on his flagship the <span class="mu-i">Recrimination</span> when the ad-hoc fleet was scattered by a larger Cathagi navy.
As a child you had dreamed of being counted among his number of daring-do warriors of the sea before learning of his demise, and now here he stands before in the flesh. It seems that the reports of his death had been much exaggerated.
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