<div class="floatright">(http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l61/Sylvenpsion/Jacobpirate-crop.jpg)</div><br/>May I present Jacob Whelan (http://plothook.net/RPG/profiler/view.php?id=8762)<br/><br/>Jacob was Born of Cara and Brandon Whelan Shortly before the Irish Rebellion of 1641.His father, a devout Irish catholic and landowner, took part in the Irish Rebellion to try and push back the flow of Protestant settlers trying to take Catholic owned lands. This fear and hatred, further escalated by reports that the Covenanter Army in Scotland was going to invade Ireland in an attempt to wipe out the catholic religion, reached to a point in 1642. It was During that time when the Old English formed an Alliance with the Gaelic lords at the Assembly of Killkenny. This Alliance (The Confederates of Killkenny) escalated the rebellion into a full blown war that would last 11 years, only to end when Cromwell invaded in 1649. Jacob spent that part of his life knowing of nothing but war. As soon as he was old enough to walk his father placed a practice sword in his hand, He would learn to move in layers of clothing designed to protect him.. if not for practice then just to emulate his father. Jacob still remembers the times he and his father would sit down together, and Brandon Whelan would tell him about the family's Axe.. how it had been passed down from father to son since the moment of its forging and had been in every great Irish conflict.<br/><br/>In 1649 the civil war in england was coming to an end, Whomsoever won that war would be the one to settle the affairs in Ireland. It eventually ended with the beheading of King Charles I and a large parliamentary army was on it’s way to Ireland, lead by none other then Oliver Cromwell. With 200,000 men Cromwell took Ireland and suppressed the catholics within 2 years time. Shortly there after the The Cromwellian Act of Settlement of 1652 is passed, this act allowed the seizing of lands owned by Catholics(of which Brandon Whelan was one) in a form of legalized ethnic cleansing. Forcing all those effected to relocate to the poorer lands in Connacht and Clare or to flee Ireland entirely. Brandon Whelan chose the later, due to his active role in the war he feared retribution by the English and escaped aboard an unlisted vessel with his family to Spain(Much like the The flight of the Earls in 1607).<br/><br/>It here that Jacobs life became a bit more dynamic, after their flight from Ireland and settlement in Spain Brandon Whelan became little more then a Drunk.With his father curled up inside a bottle and in a Foreign land he did what he could.He never could grasp the Spanish language and for most of his childhood felt alienated save for a few Irish families and English speaking traders that came through there. His anger often got the better of him, and more often then not at the end of any given day he would fine himself with a new bruise or cut. As soon as he was old enough he kissed his mother good bye, took his family's Axe and booked passage aboard the next boat away from there, never to look back on it again.<br/><br/>He ended up joining up with the crew of that first vessel, being taken in by the ships carpenter and learned that craft while he worked as physical labor.Though he spent a few years on that ship he never could pick up the finer points of seafaring. Instead he was happy to settle into the craft he was tought and be the big guy they called upon. There was more then a few times he would be called upon to assist in some heavy lifting or such. After a few years the captain retried and the new captain did not like him at all (Probably because Jacob broke the guys arm for talking Bad about Erin's isle before he became captain). it was then that Jacob moved on, now in Port Royal Jamaica he needed to search for something new, It was then he saw the notice....<br/>