Captain Jonathon Wilder

Captain Wilder and the Evening Dream fly the black. Perhaps the most charming and mischievous pirate crew in The Stygian Blue, he and his sailors are often found galavanting in Port Royale and are welcome visitors.

Jonathon Wilder was once just another foppish Kalian trader, a younger son of a wealthy family pursuing the family business. 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, commandeering the vessel and inspiring the crew to execute several maneuvers that pulled them out of danger and ended up saving the lives of everyone aboard. The Evening Dream - despite losing dozens of men - eventually sent the attacking ship to flight. 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.

Captain Wilder wears and wields a pair of magic items, the Dream Mantle and the Time Piercer Sword, which is rumored to allow him to strike at will from all quarters without warning. His second in command wields a spear named the Mirrorlight Piercer that has allowed him to fend off numerous attempts to board the Evening Dream by unsavory characters.