Fiction:The Firmament/Dismas Mourningshot

"I want you to look onto the barrel of my pistol; I want you to behold the cold darkness of it, as I pressed it down your eye. This is the final thing you will ever seen."

- Dismas, before killing a victim

Dismas Mourningshot is a fearsome human pirate who commandeers the ship known as the Vengeful, who is one of the more notorious buccaneers of Dead Man's Bay.

History
Dismas Windshot, as he was known early in life, was born in the coastal city of Graygrove in Aynach where he spent his young adulthood serving as a dock worker with aspirations for adventuring across the land. Following a particularly eventful night of gambling against a dwarf merchant, he obtained a pistol - a weapon generally unseen in Aynach - and the knowledge of how to craft ammunation, leading him to quit his job and become a traveller, eager to explore the land and live his life to the fullest.

While his first years were largely made up of uneventful mercenary work, he would eventually become hooked with a woman named Loretta with who he grew intimate with, only for her to reveal herself to be a hag in disguise who, during a night of passion, tore his lower jaw open with her claws and escaped into the night after he had impregnated her. Barely able to survive his injuries, Dismas was saved by local clerics though was deeply traumatized by the incident, leading him to be consumed by revenge and chase the hag down during the following years, following her all the way to the land of Okran beyond the Great Sea of Sands and growing increasingly jaded over time as his prey repeatedly escaped him.

Dismas was eventually able to track Loretta down to the gnoll town of Udnark, at the northern coast of Okran, where she had hexed the population into obedience, having conceived a fey-touched child with Dismas by that point. Utterly consumed by his hatred for the hag, Dismas not only fought through the gnolls who assaulted him but slaughtered them to the very last, turning Udnark into a ghost town before finally cornering Loretta down; the hag attempted to appease to Dismas by using their daughter, only for the jaded gunslinger to gun them both down without any hesitation and drench himself in their blood.

A broken man, Dismas now sought to live a life of hedonistic violence, and found his wish after joining a crew of pirates raiding the coast of Okran. Through the years, he became a pirate lord of his own right, and makes his mark as one of the most cruel raiders of the eastern seas.

Features
Dismas is a rugged human man who typically wears a heavy fur coat and a neckerchief which is worn around his mouth, hiding it from view. A very large scar passes diagonally through the right side of his mouth, received from the hag Loretta when she tried to kill him, while numerous smaller scars dot the rest of his body. Jaded by a life of betrayal, he has fallen into rampant cruelty, selfishness and a love for killing. He is no longer able to form true relationships with other individuals and remains detached from others at all times. Dismas is also infamous for his hatred for gnolls and kills their kind on sight, whether they are opposing him or not.

Dismas fights through the combination of a shortsword named Lightning and a dwarf-crafted pistol named Thunder. The weapons are both enchanted with cold iron properties, as to make them as deadly towards fey creatures - such as hags - as possible. He is renowned as one of the most skilled and dexterous gunslingers among the pirates of Dead Man's Bay, enough that many claim his abilities far exceed those of a normal man.

Relationships

 * Allies
 * N/A


 * Ambivalent
 * Fallows Zayne - Dismas pays respect to the Pirate King when necessary, but would not mind if he were to disappear.


 * Enemies
 * N/A