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Stories abound of a four-armed Captain Trett saving pirate vessels from horrible predators and certain doom in far-off waters. There is a lack of credible evidence. |
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This mysterious four-armed servant of the sea gods is an extraterrestrial alien from a far-distant planet brought here through an interplanetary gateway when just a child by parents in search of safety from a war-torn homeworld. Turned away as monsters from so-called civilized refuges, with his mother nearly slain, the family said to maybe be a refugee from another plane or an exile from an underwater kingdom. He eventually found sanctuary with a coastal community of aquatic half-elves, who understood better than most their sense of isolation and dislocation with nowhere truly being home. Trett came to venerate the gentle yet strong gods of sea and storm worshiped by their elven hosts, and after seeking fame and fortune as an adventurer he rose up to become a sailor and eventually a captain in the royal navy, returning in uniform with some satisfaction to several towns that had turned him away as a refugee two decades before. After many years sailing in service to his adopted country and proving his worth time and again, Trett has retired from active naval service, though remains active in the ministry and as a daring protector of his adopted home with trident and . He is said to sail the most distant and dangerous seas, protecting sailors of his adopted homeland from danger and death. In most stories, he wields a trident, a maul and his trademark dolphin shield.
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