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[indent][sub][b][color=7ea7d8]   M I S C E L L A N E O U S[/color][/b][/sub]
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[color=white][color=7ea7d8][b]►[/b] [b]Character Info[/b][/color]
	[color=7ea7d8]Birthday:[/color] January 14th, 1791
	[color=7ea7d8]Country of Origin:[/color] England
	[color=7ea7d8]Languages Spoken:[/color] English, French
	[color=7ea7d8]Affiliation:[/color] Haven
	[color=7ea7d8]Motivation:[/color] Sorting his life out
	[color=7ea7d8]Habits:[/color] Staying awake at odd hours, and balancing his weight on one foot.  
	[color=7ea7d8]Hobbies:[/color]
-Bone carving
-Woodworking
-Card games
	
[color=7ea7d8][b]►[/b] [b]Fears[/b][/color]
-Drowning
-Sea monsters
-Wildfires

[color=7ea7d8][b]►[/b] [b]Skills[/b][/color]
-Seafaring
-Enlightened power
-Survival
-Climbing

[color=7ea7d8][b]►[/b] [b]Shortcomings[/b][/color]
-Influence
-Shooting
-History
-Cooking

[color=7ea7d8][b]►[/b] [b]Likes[/b][/color]
-The ocean
-Knives
-Dogs
-Stormy weather

[color=7ea7d8][b]►[/b] [b]Dislikes[/b][/color]
-Rich people
-The Royal Navy
-Guns
-Salt

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[color=#2e2c2c]-[/color][/indent][/hider][/INDENT][indent][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] R U M O R S[/color]
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[indent][sub][b][color=7ea7d8]   S E C R E T S  &  L I E S[/color][/b][/sub]
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[color=white][color=D8BFD8][b]►[/b] [b]Rumors[/b][/color]
	When the Saint Judith went down, and Morris alone returned from sea in decent condition, many suspected that he had arranged for the ship to sink. Perhaps he was a spy for a foreign nation tasked with sabotage, or had simply gone insane. 

The fact that he was carrying a ghastly staff of bone with him also made many believe that the Crown had sent him aboard the ship as a kind of inquisitor for her crew, and that the fate of they met was a punishment for mutiny.

[color=D8BFD8][b]►[/b] [b]Secrets[/b][/color]
	The staff of bone that Morris used as an oar to paddle back to dry land was made from a human corpse. It was grafted into one piece from the ribs and femurs of Elijah Tavish, captain of the Saint Judith. Late at night, in the small hours of the morning before the sun is visible, Morris hears his voice whispering from it. They aren’t kind words.
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[color=7ea7d8][b][u]The Sailor’s Art:[/u][/b][/color] Using the bones of something that has died, Morris can build up strange effects as if he were performing works of magic. He can cause bones to levitate, graft them together, make them weigh dozens of pounds, and much more. He often carries a long length of grafted bone with him, the size of a spear, that he had with him when he washed back up on England’s shores once again after the accident. Morris has yet to tell anyone what it actually does.

In order to actually create his strange trinkets, Morris needs a supply of bones. The source of them doesn’t always matter, but it can influence the outcome to a point. The more complicated the effect he seeks, the more bone he will need. These things also require time, and do not simply happen when he lays his hands on a rib or an animal skull. Rather, there’s a process he is hesitant to divulge, which could take minutes or days depending on his goal.

[indent][color=7ea7d8][b][u]Blackest Ivory:[/u][/b][/color] With enough of these bones, Morris can create what he refers to as Unlife. Ugly statues of bone that his Enlightenment animates into servants, which can carry out tasks befitting their size and complexity. They’re little more than easily trained workhorses, able to learn what is and isn’t the right thing to do when given an order with time. The Unlivng are also [i]significantly[/i] more costly to make, requiring entire legs and feet, or arms and thumbs to suit what Morris needs.

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Morris was 16 when he first put out to sea. He came from a poor home with a single mother who worked as a merchant’s assistant, in an economic situation where breakfast was usually half a loaf of brown bread and dinner almost always was thin soup. He signed onto a merchant ship as a deckhand, hoping to earn a fair pay for his mother back home. It was cold and stormy out there, the food was somehow [i]worse[/i] than home, and there was always the threat of pirates down south. Morris’ job was a simple one: Move this barrel, tie that knot, and fetch something. It wasn’t glamorous, but it paid. The quartermaster gave him menial tasks like tarring the deck and bringing up supplies to fix something, and expected very little out of him.

They were a month away from port when Morris discovered his Enlightenment. An older sailor showed him the art of scrimshaw, carving bones from whales into tools or art pieces. People would make things out of them and trade them. In Morris’ case, he learned how to cut some whalebone chunks into dice, which he used to win a few coins one night. And then he won a few more, and a few more still. They thought he had cheated, but every time he wanted a certain number, the dice just landed on it.

A few more days, and another crew member helped him figure it out when Morris made a tiny whale figure out of fish bones. It came to life and started floating, and the entire ship quickly heard about him being Enlightened. Out at sea, it didn’t change much about his standing. If anything, it made him more useful, and there wasn’t much room on a ship for discrimination. 

Months later, he went home and found his mother had passed from sickness. She couldn’t afford a doctor, and that left Morris alone with the house. He took his time to grieve, and with no one waiting at home, went right back to sea. Twice, he served as an assistant quartermaster aboard the whaling ship Duke of the West, having discovered he could create an abomination from whalebones that could fetch supplies while he tended to numbers. Morris earned enough pay and respect among the crew that he was approached by the Royal Navy after his most recent work. The captain of a ship called the Saint Judith was heading out to settle disputes with pirates in the equator and ensure that England’s interests were asserted. He had asked for Morris specifically, and the pay was far better than anything he’d gotten before. So he [i]graciously[/i] accepted the offer.

And it all went wrong.

Just weeks after the Saint Judith left port, Morris was found limping back to England on a raft made from driftwood, blood-soaked rope, and a prayer. His clothes were tattered, his hair had been singed, and he had a truly dejected look on his face. All he had to say was that the Saint Judith had gone down, and none of her crew had survived. Morris would not say what happened, even under threat of imprisonment. To this day, it remains a mystery.

Two months passed, and he seemed to have never truly recovered. He never strayed far from that ugly stick made of bones, he’s stayed on dry land, and most notably, Morris has been avoiding anyone with governmental authority. The sudden turn of his life eventually took him to the doorstep of one Lady Rosemarie, where he humbly asked not for a place to stay, but a place to work. Morris tends to the needs of her Haven, doing everything from bringing food to the girls when they’re sick to fixing a broken window after some Enlightened's abilities got out of hand. Sometimes, he even scares off the occasional wealthy man who [i]insists[/i] his daughter will come home.

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[url= https://youtu.be/WVkD4lgXTEU?si=Rwj9pzzHTQ0F6ox8]Bones in the Ocean[/url]


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