Æstrid

Æstrid Eyvaldottir the River Pirate is a halfling swashbuckler. She is dark-skinned yet culturally very much a Viking, due to a two-generations ago conquest of the former gnomish Caliphate village she grew up in. She's tall and slender (by halfling standards) and extremely nimble and charming, yet also somewhat hearty and clever.

She's a well-regarded member of the crew of a longship called The Enterprise, under the command of Captain Hallfrid Grimwaldottir, her personal mentor and best friend. She and her crew have together crossed vast oceans, traversed rivers and portages deep inland, traded, smuggled, raided, been in and out of more battles, bar fights and prisons than they can easily count. Æstrid in particular is noted for her bravery and haughty spirit (perhaps to the point of recklessness, but she has a way of usually coming out on top, and is therefore often considered a key player in the most dangerous of missions.)

Æstrid has an understanding with Grimwaldottir that she will someday (perhaps someday soon) break away to command a longship of her own, still owing a small fealty of course, as this is the means by which sea captains from her town typically retire. She is currently hoping the chaos of the current crisis might present her with an opportunity to amass enough wealth to obtain her own ship and a dependable crew she can trust of sailors and adventurers from back home.