Jonathon Wilder was once just another traveling dilettante, the scion of a minor noble line who loved to travel wherever his wanderlust took him. A tall male half-elf, he is always well dressed in black and purple attire, stylish yet seaworthy, his unruly brown hair often needs to be brushed aside from his green eyes to reveal his winning smile. Despite the roughness of the seagoing life he often adopted, he always maintained himself as friendly,
charming, and trustworthy.
Things changed on a fateful voyage as a
passenger aboard the Evening Dream, when the ship ran afoul of pirates of a most unsavory reputation. The captain of the ship was a drunk and dissolute sailor whose shoddy tactics led to near disaster and whose cowardice even when luck momentarily saved their ship seemed about to doom them all over again. Jonathon leapt into action, reordering the crew and pulling them together with several excellent maneuvers that pulled them out of danger and ended up saving the lives of everyone aboard the Evening Dream while sending the ship attacking them fleeing. The surviving crew called for a mutiny and marooned the old captain at their next landfall, while inviting Jonathan to take the tiller and lead them.
He at first tried to dissuade them from appointing him as captain, still thinking of himself as not a true man of the sea. Yet, the second in command and first mate, William, voiced his support for Jonathan on the condition that the young man
be willing to keep him and the other experienced sailors on board to show him the ropes. Captain Wilder agreed, reluctantly at first, though he soon found his partnership with William an ideal pairing of his youthful charisma and wit, his intuitive grasp of tactics, and the boundless depth of experience of his second in command when it came to the sea and all its manifold mysteries.
