Name:
William Ignatius Marius is his birthname. Now he goes by William Guthrie to hide his past.
Nicknames:
His
Crew calls him: "Billy", and "The Little Lord"
Title/Occupation:
5th Marquis of Carnsbury
"Merchant" in St Claudia's Island
Nationality:
Astaria
Age:
21
Gender:
Male
Sexuality:
Bisexual but leans towards Men
Appearance:
William has spent a good deal of his life at sea and it shows. He has the build of a swimmer or of someone who cares for himself. William was taught from a young age that his body was just as important as his brain. William stands at a respectable six foot four inches tall, but he is not skinny or frail looking. Despite his mostly good looks, William bares a burn scar on his right bicep. The burn mark seems to be older, but William does his best to hide the scar from sight. His light brown eyes seem to always be calculating something and his hair is always neat. William always seems to be wearing the clothes of a proper gentleman.
Interests:
William is an oddity to say the least. His interests are bizarre at times and most them are very ungentlemanly to say the least. Where most lords are content to sit around playing cards, William is always on the move. One moment, he is reading about ship designs and the next he is learning another language. However, his favorite thing is to make investments to strengthen his funds. His plan requires money and money requires his entire focus. Money is his true passion, but he manages to hide that fact. A noble gentleman would not usually make monetary dealings, so he must be silent about it.
William also seems to enjoy the art of fighting. The pirates taught him a more brutal form of sword fighting that usually is frowned upon in high society. William never cared to learn the way of the more noble fighting. He dies enjoy dancing since it is regimented, and he prefers that kind of thing. William dies often seen to be just in the right spot to spread the right gossip or overhear something scandalous. He seems to always be up to something.
Personality:
William seems to have different personalities for different situations. At one moment, he could be the nicest man in the world and the next he is ruining someone’s life. It all depends on what the Marquis needs to do. At his core, William is a man on a mission of revenge against those who killed his family. Towards that goal, he will do any say anything if it means his enemies suffer. William is a genuinely good person despite his desire for revenge. He is the type to help his peasants regardless if they can pay him back. His care for them would seem almost odd if it was not for his charisma. The Marquis is the type to draw the eyes with his charm and grace in social situations. One of his mentors taught him how to draw the eyes of the room wherever he needs them to be.
William has molded his Marquis persona. The Marquis of Carnsbury is a playable type who never seems to have a brain in his hair. However, it is all an act and William waits for the right moment to strike. He uses the bon vivant nature of his alter ego to hide who he really is. That truly is the question. If William has spent years making himself look like a different person, who is he? That is the question.
History:
Every night, this image fills William’s dreams:
Six-year-old William, hiding in the wheat field from the soldiers and the screams. He watched as flames were on the hillside. The Blood of his family is in the streams.
As he stares his whole world burns around him. A woman tells him to run away as she is cut down. Then William wakes up from the nightmare.
His mind keeps showing him that horrible night as if to help him remember what he lost that night. William was the youngest son of the Marquis of Carnsbury and had no chance of inheriting the title over his brothers. The issue was that his father had many enemies and three of them decided that it was time to remove the upstart Marquis by removing his family and act like bandits had done it. The three conspirators struck one cold winters night. Their plan might have succeeded had William not been playing in the snow instead of in his bed. That small act of rebellion saved his life since it bought William time to be spirited away by a faithful servant. As they fled, William promised he would someday take his revenge on the men who had wronged him.
The servant took the boy to the coast in a desperate bid to get him far far away from this life. Despite his best efforts, the servant lost his charge in the commotion of the port town. William wandered through the town until he stumbled into a small tavern frequented by less than reputable men. It was with one of these men that the young man met the crew of Blackbird. The “privateers” were impressed with the lad’s lack of fear and his inquisitive mind. Instead of ignoring him, the Capitan chose to take the boy on as a cabin boy. They needed someone, and the young orphaned nobleman fit the build. The work was painful, but it taught William valuable lessons about hard work.
William spent three years on The Blackbird learning the ropes of being a pirate. He enjoyed that life but eventually fate decreed that there was more for him to do. While docked in St. Claudia’s Island, William met the merchant John Guthrie. Master Guthrie’s business was to buy stolen cargo from the pirates and then trade the ill-gotten cargo for a profit. Again, William impressed Master Guthrie by the very nature of being literate. Since that was rare among pirates, Guthrie chose to take the boy in as his ward. His wife had always wanted a child and the “import export” business would need an heir. So, the Guthries set about teaching him about the delicate art of being a fence. It was not noble work, but it was lucrative.
William stayed for almost a decade before he felt restless. He could have forgotten his revenge and spend his days in luxury on the island. However, he knew he had to do this or it would haunt him for the rest of his days. With the approval of his adoptive parents, William went back home. Along the way, he grabbed a few pirates to act as his servants since he knew he could trust them to not backstab him if the money was good. William went to his family’s old estate, which had been repaired over the years, and managed to get the title from the current owner. The man had been a drunkard so it had not been difficult to buy the title. That was how the Marquis of Carnsbury was made. On the outside, he looks like a merchant buying his way to high society when the title was his by birthright. Regardless, he is now set to take his vengeance at any cost.
