Cassandra Wytchazel
Born into a troupe of wandering minstrels who scraped a living by travelling all over Europe performing for whoever would pay or feed them. On one particularly fateful day the troupe pitched camp just outside a coastal village in Brittany and unknown to Cassandra, a very unfortunate set of circumstances were about to turn her world upside down. Following an altercation with the owner of the villages hostelry when he refused to pay them for entertaining his customers, the owner and his wife were both taken with a fever. Their wine stocks turned inexplicably sour and their chickens stopped laying. The villagers immediately turned their suspicions on the troupe and they were accused of witchcraft and putting the evil eye on these poor unfortunate people. It then wasn't long before a lynch mob burst into the travellers camp just as they were packing up to leave, and hung every one of them...... Well everyone except Cassandra who had taken quite a shine to a member of the crew of a pirate ship that was anchored nearby. Fortunately for her she was just saying her fond farewells to him when the attack took place. Seeing the danger she was in the pirate spirited her away and hid her onboard the ship until they set sail. The rest is piratical history. She learned to sail, she learned to shoot and she learned to fight, making her a much valued member of the pirate crew.
