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Even by the standards of the Gillmen, Captain Kyanos (key-ah-nos) Roikan (roy-kan) has always been violent and vindictive, using both his supernatural abilities and his fearsome shark-like teeth to terrorize all around him. He is a successful Shackles Pirate captain, dominating his crew ruthlessly, having only a few fellow Gillmen (who are treated much more like equals, but still regard him as a figure of capricious whims, best to be obeyed quickly and well, and avoided at all other times) among his crew, which otherwise consists of humans who have been pressed into service, and wear heavy manacles of iron on both wrists and ankles, not to restrain their movement, as they are not chained, but simply to prevent them from ever leaping overboard, with thought of swimming to safety.
Kyanos has a fascination with sharks, particularly with eating them, and often chums the water with fish guts and offal, so that he can hook one of the sleek predators, which he has hauled aboard and butchered for his meal. Given a choice, he only eats the flesh of predatory animals, even if it is smaller predatory fish, or stray cats that he’s snagged while at port, as he regards himself as the top of the food chain, above even the normal predatory animals, and believes that eating the flesh of herbivores or docile domesticated fare will weaken him, leaving him soft and powerless. The captain’s quarters aboard the Razor Smile reek of old blood and poorly-preserved ‘trophies’ taken from various predatory animals that have gone into his smooth belly, including ‘robes’ of tattered shark-skin and many clattering necklaces, bracelets, etc. of shark’s teeth, some impressively large.
He will make an exception to his predator-only dietary standard for a prisoner or an unlucky crewman that has displeased him, using his arcane powers to enlarge himself to grotesque proportions, and then tapping into his unique aberrant heritage to devour whole a screaming human adult. He cannot contain such a meal for long, but the long minutes that pass before he must disgorge it as his body shudders and reduces to his normal size are enough to leave the body unrecognizably disfigured by his supernaturally potent digestive acids. He prefers to show off this tactic when he has taken on new ‘crew,’ generally from the survivors of a pirate raid, picking one that seems the least likely to cooperate, or the most likely to break the will of the others, if devoured before their eyes, and then making various threats while the thrashing figure expires beneath the distended skin of his bulging belly, before wandering out of sight of those he is terrifying to disgorge the remains overboard, so that they never suspect that he can’t ‘hold his dinner.’ He can skip this last unpleasantness if the captives happen to include any gnomes, halflings or children, as he can contain a size Small target without more than extreme gastric discomfort…
The Razor Smile is Captain Kyanos’ second ship, having abandoned his first to an overwhelming assault by a Chelish ship that was far better defended than he had counted on, using his indispensible ability to simply swim away from a hopeless battle. Unfortunately for him, some of his crew survived as prisoners, and he now suffers an unsavory reputation for having deserted his ship, forcing him to recruit ‘sailors’ from those he has terrorized into obedience, as local pirate crews consider him craven and unfit to call himself a Captain...
Boons Kyanos respects few things, and resents anyone clearly more powerful than himself, refusing to back down to an almost suicidal degree, in front of his men. To someone whom he feels that he owes a boon, perhaps because they helped him save face, or because they have led him to some juicy plunder (or a tasty predatory beast that he has not yet sampled), he can offer passage, unpleasant as the accommodations may be, or share the names of some useful fences or information brokers, all of them Gillmen, his preferred contacts in Drenchport, Quent and Ollo (he avoids Port Peril, and is indeed sentenced to hang if ever he lands in that port…).
A favored son of Rovagug might learn the name of his ‘lady’ in Drenchport, a Gillman (woman, technically, although one could not be blamed for not immediately knowing the difference…) Witch, who can provide arcane services, and is particularly skilled at crafting magical talismans of use to Sorcerers, such as the Fanged Necklace that Kyanos himself wears.
His Gillmen contacts are also able to construct masterwork hide armor out of sharkskin that is exceptionally well-suited to underwater use, reducing Armor Check Penalties for Swim checks by an additional point over the masterwork reduction. The Gillman craftsman who makes these armors is also capable of making masterwork leather and studded leather armor from sharkhide, and, most uniquely, both studded leather and leather, studded leather or hide armor with armor spikes, as well as spiked wooden shields or spiked gauntlets, where the studs, spikes and armor spikes are made of alchemically-strengthened shark’s teeth instead of metal, making them suitable for use by Druids, or others who do not wish to wear metal armor. (The ‘wooden’ shields are made from tortoise shell, instead of wood, but function identically, mechanically.)