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The Legend of Captain Timberlee is one that had been told for many generations.
Elders around would gather young children around crackling campfires late at night and explain about a notorious
that plundered and scavenged to his heart’s content.
He was a scroungy old Vaale that was constantly heard of but not seen. Young vaali would tell the tale to their
friends: once upon a time, there lived a young boy. He loved to make up adventures and would run around in a
large field near his herd, trying to get his friends to join the latest game he thought up. His mother always
warned him to not go near the beaches because a terrible fairy lived in those waters and, if he wasn’t careful,
she would cast him under a spell. One particular day, the young boy wandered down to the beach while his mother
wasn’t watching. It was raining hard – a torrential storm of thunderous booms and deadly lightening flashes.
His mother searched for him for forever but…the young Vaale was never found again. The last traces of him was a
bottle cap lying on the beach that he often carried around with him for good luck.
His mother was distraught and it is said she went crazy, trying to find her son. She claimed that she was continuously
haunted by a raspy sounding Vaale that would stand in the shadows during the late hours of the night, during every storm.
She claimed it was her son—coming back to drag her out to sea with him.
Young Vaali also make similar claims – that they are being haunted by a Piratey figure who only comes during storms.
It is said that he lures the Vaali out to the beaches with him, where the ocean fairy casts them under her spell.
Only a few Vaale have managed to see Captain Timberlee clearly. He is marked by a “P”, the markings of a Pirate. The
curse that the fairy put on him. Of course, only Timberlee himself knows of the real reasons why he became a Pirate Vaale.
On that day that he wandered down to the beach, he saw out in the distance, a beautiful woman lying on a rock. She
looked like a type of mermaid and he was determined to go and meet her. So, he dove into the water but it seemed that
no matter how hard he swam, the salty liquid kept holding him back. Distraught and desperate, slowly running out of
energy, the pounding rain drowning him bit by bit, the young Vaale made one last attempt to reach the woman…and failed.
Suddenly, a ferocious current drug him beneath the waves and he slowly felt his life being pulled away from him…
The next thing Timberlee remembers is finding himself upon a boat, surrounded by a grungy looking group of Vaale.
The young boy was lost – the ship was far from his home – and it was there that he learned the ways of a Pirate.
Forever he was taunted by the other shipmates who taught him to be rougher and ruder than what he ever had known.
Timberlee continues on his quest to this day to find the beautiful woman he saw on the rock. He will never rest
until he does find the woman and so, he continues his search, his ultimate adventure. He returns to his old lands
at every storm to try and find recruits, to help him find his love…
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