Louisa

Louisa Meza is the second of eight children, born in Sikala: a mid-sized city in the Sovereign Ports. Her parents ran a small food stand near the harbor, and Louisa grew up on the water and in the kitchen.

At the age of seventeen, she began working on a merchant vessel. Not long after that, her ship was attacked by the pirate vessel ''Rakshasa. ''The merchant crew were killed or captured, but during the fight Louisa suddenly manifested the powers of a storm sorcerer. She was kept alive and pressed into service on the Rakshasa as the ship's "lucky charm."

Over time, Louisa grew to like the pirate life. Jolly by nature, she made friends easily and quickly won over the crew. She learned to fight and became the ship's cook, where she became close with the ship's gunner -- a high elf named Karina. The two fell in love and married when Louisa was 25.

Time passed, and the Rakshasa continued to prey on merchant ships. Louisa, ashamed at the choices she'd made, stopped sending letters and money home to her family. After ten years, Karina had risen through the ranks and become the captain of the Rakshasa. After a particularly successful string of victories, she left Louisa marooned on a spit of land, telling her that she'd "outgrown" her wife of ten years and wanted to move on, and that she'd "never been good at breakups."

Louisa remembers nothing of how she got off the island, but the next thing she knew she was coughing up seawater on the deck of a ship, with Wulfgang and Yams nursing her back to health. From there, they headed to Willowbank.

Louisa is an open book with the rest of the group, and with anyone she thinks won't turn her in to the authorities for being a pirate. She avoids interacting with known pirates in social situations, and will lie about both her sorcerer powers and her past to anyone she thinks might 1. try to capture her again, or 2. might take issue with her pirate history.