As you're escaping from Lothering, you arrive to a filthy port filled with nothing but pirates and thugs. As you're walking around looking for safe passage, you're introduced to how dark the underbelly of this place is as you find men being knifed on open streets and nobody stopping them. You're on the search for a boat to grant safe passage out of Ferelden for whatever reason the writers decide that you're leaving Ferelden for.
There's a lot of ships and crew but they all appear lecherous and demand extremely high gold sums that your character is uncapable of achieving at that time of the game (such as 200 or 300g) leaving you effectively stranded in the unsafe port. It's getting dark and you and Bethany head off to the local inn for the night after having not much success with the local captains.
In the inn, a pirate is sitting at the corner of the bar chatting up and flirting with the bartender while drinking from a bottle of alcohol (let's just pretend it's a bottle of dwarven ale), multiple thugs appear and demand for the money that the pirate owes their local crimeboss. I'd rather not start a bar fight where you help out in this scene because then that would be too similar to Leliana, so instead of having the fight break out in an actual brawl he just smashes his bottle of ale and guts the three or so thugs that were threatening him. He smashes the rest of the bottle on the floor, gives his apologies to the bartender who is frightened of him and walks out. If you're female, he greets you and Bethany with "Ladies." as he walks out while if you're male he simply looks at Bethany before walking out.
The next day as you're walking through the streets talking with multiple more captains, he approaches you and says he heard that you and your "attractive" sister are looking for safe passage out of Ferelden. He gives you an offer; the local crime lord is getting too involved in his own personal matters and says that he'll grant you safe passage if you "help" him with his problem. He explains that he or his crew can't deal with it because as soon as they approach the thug district, the crime lord is immediately warned and goes into hiding.
You can argue morality and such with him and Bethany but there isn't much of an alternative out of Ferelden so you're forced to accept the task, although how you resolve the "help" is completely dependant on you. You attack the thug's stronghold in the port and eventually find the crime lord, how you deal with him is dependant on how you want it; you either kill him or let him live as long as he "gets out of here". Either way, the pirate is grateful (although if you let the crime lord live, he'll question your judgement) and says that he'll hold up to his end of the bargain and take you to the Free Marshes.
On the trip to the Free Marshes, you and Bethany (only Bethany if male) are harassed by a few crew members who seek for "extra" payment. You can threaten them or whatever but either way the captain will come down and use his sword to run through the crew members involved, he apologizes to you for the disturbance and says he doesn't tolerate such behavior with his crewmen.
Once you're finished with the trip, he decides to let his crew deal with the boat as he'll help you two out as payment for the incident on the boat, he gives you a note and says that he has a few black market contacts in the local general store and that they'll give you supplies for getting around in the Free Marshes. This is how you get the camp, you get some basic equipment for fighting and a few health poultices.
In a "meanwhile" cutscene (think the cutscene where you see Loghain hiring Zevran) you're sent into the local pub, a few thugs are drinking in the corner and watch the captain walk in. The captain decides to sit down and begins to chat up with a few ladies, he becomes extremely boastful and says that he's the one responsible for the crime lord in Ferelden to be killed / on the run (adding another flaw to his character) and that nobody can stop him or his crew, the women in the pug begin laughing and are deeply interested in him; enough that he doesn't realise the thugs that were listening walk out of the bar.
As you come out of the general store, you bear witness to a great fire near the sea and as you arrive you find the captain's ship to be aflame with the corpses of all his crewmen to be found in the water around it. The captain comes out with the women and realises the flame before running near you and screaming in horror and disbelief, says that the crew and the boat was all he had and he doesn't realise what happened. The thugs are watching in the corner with their weapons unsheathed but enjoy watching his misery and leave him be.
You or Bethany can try to soothe him over the situation, he pleads with you to be allowed to join with you two because he doesn't know where he belongs in the world and that he wants to be "anywhere but here". If you don't allow him to come along, he becomes extremely saddened but says he understands and re-enters the inn and found in the corner alone drinking (allowing you another chance to recruit him, although he's drunk this time).
If you bring him with you, he eventually explains to you that he was a pirate his entire life and that his parents were also pirates and that he's unaware of everything in the world except for the sea. You can introduce him in the world and show him things he'd never imagined existed, he slowly gets over the loss of his crew and ship and becomes glad that it made him meet you two. Although this would take a few years in the game's ten year time table, can't happen overnight. Although, on your insistance, he could still decide that pirate life was superior (essentially, him being "hardened")
He'd have his own personal sidequest later on that would involve him avenging his crewmates and depending on if you let the crime lord escape at the start, the crime lord would be there once again. Once you've dealt with it, he either says that his entire past is behind him now and he can move towards the future (non-hardened) or towards restarting his life of pirating (hardened).
He approves of violence against people who deserve it (like anybody that attacks you and you're given a chance to spare) and profiteering. He disapproves of violence against innocent people and helping lawful people (such as helping a templar hunt down a mage or a guard to arrest a criminal) because he values freedom.
Just for extra romance potential, you could push him and Bethany to get together.
Modifié par Dave of Canada, 06 août 2010 - 06:44 .
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Maybe something like 30-40 gold would be more appropriate. More realistic, but still beyond the player's reasonable means. And hey, if they want to kill wolves for twenty hours to work up that gold, sure they can hop on another pirate's ship. They just miss out on your sexy pirate, like they do if they kill Zev.
