Valmar Ciervo

Valmar was born in Verano, a major city of the Coderite Empire. In his twenties, he gained command of a ship covertly licensed to privateer against the empire's rivals. After one of his operations was exposed, the navy turned on Valmar and claimed his an independent operation to avoid an international incident. Valmar was jailed, but broke free and, alongside many of his former crewmen, seized his ship, the Stag, and began a life of pirating, this time against the empire itself. This lasted several years, but after a bad scrape with a galleon, Valmar determined to lay low and sailed out into the Calaran Ocean, eventually reaching Calzon City.

There he became close with shopkeeper Crystal Troben and gained sympathy for her cause of defending independent business owners from a group of wealthy moguls that would later become known as the Commerce Guild. After several murders were falsely pinned on Valmar and his crew, tension escalated, leading eventually to rioting in the previously pacifist city. With his presence doing more harm than good, Valmar, along with Crystal, sailed to the nearby island of Kerizin, where they had discovered a location suitable for a pirate hideout. Alongside Pentol Pallonil and the various disillusioned Calzonians he had gathered to his cause, they founded Crystal Cove.

Valmar and Crystal later married and had a son, Vane, but just three years later Crystal was murdered by Bo Dameron. For the next ten years Valmar became obsessed with Dameron, who eventually reappeared as part of the Lumber War on the Native Islands. Dameron used Valmar's passion against him to lure him into a trap, which led to the sinking of the Stag and the deaths of Valmar and most of his crew.

Vane went on to build his own ship, the Smasher, and became a renowned pirate in his own right.

Information
Born: 5213; Verano.

Died: 5262; Fourth Island.

Family: Crystal Troben (wife), Vane (son).

Race/Ethnicity: Taronian Coderite.

Occupation: pirate captain.

Hometown: Verano, Calzon City, Crystal Cove.