Cpt. Zelevis - Air Genasi Pirate

Zelevis was born into the Cardiare noble family. Her father (Derrin Cardiare) being a high ranking member of the Naval Unit of the Amber Cities - a Fire Genasi himself - was rather wealthy and kept the Cardiare's well off both in monetary and social standards. Her mother (Marianne Cardiare) was a human woman, and on the day of Zelevis conception a hurricane from the elemental plane ravaged through the city. The elemental effects of air were put into her being and though her father expected her to be born a Fire Genasi, she was born as Air.
The circumstances surrounding Zelevis' birth were unusual to say the least. Not only was she born as an element that wasn't associated with her parents, but she also came blessed by a god with an imprinted mark on her forehead and her golden eyes being the only things to indicate it at her young age. As she grew she learned about her magic and was quickly told to push it down and forget about it, so that she could uphold the proper family name. Her mother then taught her day and night in the ways of socialites and proper etiquette, until she died when Zelevis was 14 from a fatal disease. In her mothers will she left a note that said: "I have been sworn legal rights to collect this package destined for Marianne Cardiare" and her mother’s signature at the bottom. She was ever given the location of the package or a description, and when she asked her father he had no answers for her.

For a while, her father kept Zelevis by his side non-stop, including during travels by sea, as he couldn't bear to lose another of his family. He gave her a personalised rapier for her 15th birthday that had her mother's name engraved in the blade. He also hired her a personal dwarven butler - Lou - who she quickly formed a close bond with as he told her folk tales and sang her sea shanties at night. Her favourite was a tale of the spirits that lived at sea: Sirens.

When she grew up, though she liked her life of luxury and her few companions, she disliked the expectations that were being put on her, such as continuing the family name and growing their fortune through marriage.

When she was 18 she was arranged to be wed to the heir of the Maldonado family to further their fortune and titles, but she had grown enough to decide that she wished to marry for love and not for money. So Lou and Zelevis concocted a plan to escape the wedding. While Zelevis escaped, Lou had gathered all of their wedding gifts and was selling them for their true price in gold, garnering them quite a sum of money, which Zelevis then used to purchase a Sailing Ship with far too eccentric a design, which she had crafted in gold, red and black trim and had the ships name - The Siren's Call - engraved into the side of the ship.

She started to notice a change as she sailed the seas with her small crew of ruffians. It seemed as though bad luck followed her wherever she went. She was often in danger from tougher pirate crews, her allies in the navy had to abandon her in times of need so they weren’t seen as aiding a pirate ship and she lost many men in her early days as Captain. She fell in love with her first mate - Daniel Black, a human man with raven hair - and she fell pregnant with his child, causing her to fall weak and frail. Her child was dead upon birth, but Zelevis couldn’t bear the idea of losing their child and she got in contact with an underground organisation of magic users, focusing on experimental dark magics. She offered a small part of her soul to bring her child back from the dead, but they instead came to an agreement that she would be a test subject for their new spells and they would give the baby life in return. She agreed, and they did so. However, the child wanted nothing to do with Zelevis and cried whenever near her. She underwent some experiments, changing her bad luck into her being the harbinger of bad luck instead. Wherever she went, whomever she met, their luck would turn sour as soon as she left. This meant that Zelevis and her crew were safe from the cursed luck, but gave The Siren’s Call quite a bad reputation. She took the child back to the ship, handing her over to Daniel and again she cried, uncomfortable with the two parents' presence. They tried for years to deal with the wailing child, until she turned 4. Her father died during a fight with a rival crew. Zelevis never discovered the killer, but now left alone with a child that hates her to remind her of her failure to both Daniel and her daughter, she left the girl with an orphanage and never looked back.