The cloaked figure kept his pace before he stopped completely in front of one of the cowering men. Smoothly leaning down before the man, he smoothly and casually lighted an old pipe that was being held in his pale hand. But, as the light came to light it, the figure's facials were clear. It was a pale male with blue eyes and a grayish-black beard, matching his long chest-length grayish-black hair. Inhaling his pipe, he exhaled the smoke into the face of the cowering prisoner. "Do you fear death?", he spoke slowly to the cowering man as if he was speaking in the tongue of a deceiver. "Do you fear that dark abyss?", it sounded as if he was spilling the venom of lies. "All your deeds laid bare. All your sins punished", he continued as his tone escalated while saying the last word in a spat. "I can offer you an escape", he offered, which perked the cowering man's attention. 

"Don't listen to him!", another of the prisoners spoke, which made the black-cloaked figure sharply look at him, unpleased. Angered, the pale man stood to his full height before swiftly grasping the prisoner's neck with a pale hand. "Do you not fear death?", he asked him in curiosity. "I'll take my chances, sir", the prisoner stuttered, making the imposing figure of a man let go of him. He looked to one of his crewman, "To the depths", he told them before they tilted the prisoner's head back, then slitting his throat. Others grimaced in fear and disgust, but the cloaked figure just watched in a pleased manner as two of his minions throw the body overboard. 

"Cold blooded!", another one of the prisoners spat in exclamation, making the figure once again turn towards him. "Life is cruel", he smoothly told him. "Why should the afterlife be any different?!", he asked him rhetorically as it escalated. "I offer you a choice", he told them before moving on the next prisoner. "Join my crew, and postpone the judgement. One hundred years before the mast. Will you serve?", he offered to him. "I w-will serve", he stuttered. "There, then", the figure said, pleased. 

That was until he moved to Eric, looking upon him. "You are neither dead, nor dying. What is your purpose here?", he asked the Huntsman as if demanding an explanation.