(I decided to avoid an airship, because i figured it would take away many adventure opportunities that land travel grants.)

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Character Name: Patrician Hankor Bluebeard
Age: 32
Race: Dwarf
Appearance: Hankor in body structure is much like the average dwarf, standing at around three feet tall and having enough muscle to fight a much larger creature or work in the mines. His face has the wrinkles of a man who has been exhausted from work some time ago but the fine keeping of a man who has not worked recently. Bluebeards silver eyes are often seen in a frown of concentration, staring at books and records and the such through the spectacle that is over his right eye.

All of the dwarf's hair is a dark grey blue, an obvious abnormality that has given him attention of both the generous and the malicious sort throughout his lifetime. As a nobleman, he keeps his beard finely braided into about ten different braids, with the largest ones on the left and right, each braid held into place by a silver ring on the end. His mustache curls upward at both ends, while the hair on his head is shorter and falls down easily in a neat fashion.

His head is often adorned by a stainless steel circlet adorned with a mana stone held firmly in place by 'claws'. Hankor likes to wear fine clothes, often times with many pockets for various reasons, but most of the time trimmed with silver and showing his house crest on them. Overall, his appearance is a noble one and gives him the attention a noble deserves. The Bluebeard house crest was made by him, the first nobleman in the family, a triangular design with silver lightning flashing over a background the color of his hair.
Magic: Electric

Personality: Proud to the point of arrogance, Bluebeard is a hardworking noble who considers money to be one of the more important things in life. Only a few loyalties that he holds are above that of cash, so Hankor has only made a few friends over his lifetime. However, he does reward those who work hard for him with the money they deserve and this fair pay has earned a good reputation among some of the dwarvern populace, often leading to competitions for jobs on the Brassheart. (He is obviously a capitalist) Hankor is however careless with his own safety and overly bold in some moments to the point of stupidity. He worries often about his appearance, something that began because of his blue hair. Politically, he is a libertarian and acts as a representative for that party in the parliament of the dwarvern legislature, an obvious standout from the normal conservative beliefs that he political system works for.

[b]Strengths[/b]
Wealth, and the strengths that come with it.
Although not a genius, he is very quick and quite well learned.
He might as well have midas touch.
[b]Weaknesses[/b]
His political views are some of the least common, and this brings royal enemies.
Although he is average in strength for a dwarf, he is below average in weapon usage for both this group and among most nobility/
He doesn't get along with poor people, mostly because of his arrogance.
His blue beard makes him obvious among a crowd.
Can be stupidly bold.

Personal Equipment: A mace, his clothes, his purse, his spectacle and the modifications for it. He expects other people to do the heavy lifting.

His Lordships Holdings: Brassheart, the home and the ship of the Patrician. It takes ten to crew it minimally, maintains twenty-five, but could hold around a hundred if cramped. In the rear is the main engine, using a paddlewheel that can be retracted inwards in order to protect it from weather or make it easy to get in a harbor. The entrance on it is large for easy loading for both supplies for the ship and goods to be transported elsewhere. The hull is of dwarvern (blue) bronze, a heavy and durable metal that is not easily destroyed. A ballroom is located in the front, surrounded by tough glass that provides a safe but pretty view of the sea. The ship is spacious most of the time, for additional cargo and just in case scenarios. On the back is the lookout tower topped with the office and bedroom of his lordship. Although the ship has cannons for defense, it is most definitely not a warship and a fleet of determined enemies could easily sink it with minimal losses. Rumors say that it could go underwater, but none of the crew members can accept or deny this.

Shares of smaller merchants and money abundant.

A noble title and the vote in the dwarvern legislature it brings.

Bio: Bluebeard grew up in a middle class family of blacksmiths. They were neither rich nor poor, but they all had the trademark blue beards and for some reason everything made or designed by their hands would have a mild blue tint to it. Although his family was smart, Hakon excelled at creating things. Eventually he became an entrepreneur in dwarvern society, designing and crafting machines of war, commerce, or resource extraction for the dwarvern peoples. This began to bring him wealth, and things accelerated over time.

While many may think his blue hair would have a large effect on his life, it really didn't. Sure it gave him some more noble attention for his inventions, but his work spoke for itself louder than any invention could. Eventually he managed to save up supplies to design his own ship to trade with. It took maybe fifty years but eventually he gained a rather massive proportion of the world's wealth.

He applied for the position of Patrician, and was ordered to create a house to hold his flag in order to achieve this money bought noble title. He built Brassheart with the majority of his wealth, and since then has carted the world's nobility around for joyrides and obviously politics. However, he is up for more adventure mostly because of boredom.