Gaela Grieg

"It doesn't matter who your ancestors were. If hundreds of years of Griegs didn't spawn a demon, they're not about to start now." Sanda Grieg regretted saying to her husband the moment their daughter was born. With curling black horns, fiendish red skin, and a scaly, winding tail, Gaela Grieg was a demon indeed. Though her parents, nobles from Venta, had long awaited the arrival of a child and an heir to their dynasty, the disturbing countenance of their spawn was too much for the sheltered nobles. Sent away to a school on an island far to the south of Summer's End, Gaela lived as an outcast among outcasts, even the most troublesome of children rebuffed the young tiefling, though whether it was from fear or malice she knew not. Just when Gaele believed there was no place for her on earth, the school was set upon by pirates under the flag of the pirate Derringer. The pirates looted and stole everything from the school and its noble progeny, not fearing the host of guards or the revenge of the wealthy elite they stole from. Gaele relished in the chaos, and proved to the pirate crew that she belonged among them by picking the lock to the school's armory and letting the pirates inside. Gaele grew up among the pirates, learning to fight, steal, and explore with the world's most notorious criminals. She proved time and again to be a capable and worthy member of the crew until the day that Derringer himself set the ship toward an inland river. "There is a lake beyond the river, and beyond that, our dreams. Across the plains, and over the desert, there lies a sea in the shadow of an ancient kingdom, where nobody from this world has ever set foot. A pirate without a dream is nothing, and the dreams of this ocean are long dead." Though she wanted to come with them on their adventure, Derringer simply said, "When you're strong enough to have a dream of your own, you can meet us on the other side of the world, at the Western Weald!" Years after the pirates left, Gaela set out once more, with two swords, all the gold she could carry, and her dream: to find the one place in the world she fit in.