Amarrissa

But why did Amarrissa blame Dedrom Flairdrim for everything wrong in her life? Many people have made similar claims, but all he did was provide her blueprints, so to speak. Well, Amarrissa's mother Daisy (the prostitute) was sure Dedrom would return to help raise Amarrissa, and for some reason seemed certain of his return. She died of syphilis when Amarrissa was only 7 years old, heartbroken that she was never able to see Dedrom all grown up and ready for fatherhood. Syphilis and several other diseases were passed down to Amarrissa (which wasn't actually Dedrom's fault, though she also likes to blame him for that), crippling her and stunting her development. She was finally cured by a kindly ascetic priest who was travelling through, but she was destitute and had no one, and her height and beauty were permanently marred by the diseases she had endured through her early life.

Amarrissa inherited some of her mother's wish for Dedrom's return, and so began asking around about him more doggedly. When her questions finally led to some shady establishments, she asked the wrong people about Dedrom.

"Why'dja wanna know?" a ruffian with one eye asked her brusquely.

"Well, he's my father, I'm trying to find him!" Amarrissa pleaded.

"At last, the gods take pity on me! I'll never catch that jetsam Dedrom again, but vengeance has seen fit to deliver me his daughter!" With that, the ruffian named Lajam grabbed Amarrissa and dragged her outside to a deserted alley, signalling to a few around him to follow. Lajam had been the first mate of a pirate vessel named Hard Plunder that Dedrom had sank in a vicious firefight only months before.

Poor Amarrissa was raped repeatedly and then beaten to within an inch of her life and left for dead in the back alley. She was found by an old beggar woman, a bag lady named Harra, who nursed her back to health. Amarrissa, wounded and bitter, turned her misery and her hatred to the one man she had wished would take care of her, return for her and her now dead mother, the man who surely was the cause of all her problems. Some of her bitterness was no doubt deserved, but some was simply directed there to make Dedrom a scapegoat, so she wouldn't have to think about her problems in other terms.

Once Amarrissa discovered the scattered bounties on Dedrom, she began gathering up the information from various port cities, making it her life's mission to eliminate Dedrom. Once she found few were willing to go on a wild goose chase after a man notorious for sinking ships, Amarrissa finally got in contact with a true force to reckon with, somewhat by accident. That man was Zaraxius the Soul Stealer, who took her life savings as a meager downpayment and promised to deliver proof of Dedrom's permanent death to both her and all the port towns posting a reward.

Zaraxius was never heard from again. Amarrissa now hates him as well. She is currently 15 years old and struggling to make ends meet as a waitress.

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