Sabian

Sabian is a half-elven pirate of the Revelry and a former crewmate of Fjord. He and Fjord grew up together at the Driftwood Asylum for Boys in Port Damali, then sailed together aboard the Tide's Breath under Captain Vandran. Sabian sabotaged and sunk the Tide's Breath in 835 PD, shortly before the events of Campaign 2. He then sailed aboard the Widow's Embrace under the pirate Captain Cadmus Leeland and was known to be living in Darktow.

Description
Sabian is a half-elf man with light skin, wavy brown hair, and dark blue eyes. He has a series of beauty marks or light freckling across his face. He wore his hair long throughout his life, kept in a low ponytail as a teenager and worn in a braid in his adulthood. From his depiction in, he is apparently about the same age as Fjord, who is in his early 30s at the time of Campaign 2.

In, he always depicted in a red neckerchief and blue clothing. In his adulthood, he wore a long, dark navy, sleeveless jacket with a stiletto dagger through a lapel and one fingerless glove on his right hand.

Sabian behaved viciously toward Fjord and relentlessly bullied him for being half-orcish for many years; Sabian stopped harassing and even speaking to Fjord aboard the Tide's Breath, which Fjord speculated was because Sabian was desperate to escape the orphanage and was willing to tolerate him to do so. Fjord later described him as having "always been a piece of shit of one variety or another". Adella felt that Sabian's association with Cadmus Leeland indicated that he was up to no good, to which Fjord responded that Sabian had historically "terrible" judgment. His former captain Vandran remembered him as "a coward and a survivor" and remarked that such people are difficult to kill.

Before Campaign 2
Sabian grew up as an orphan at the Driftwood Asylum for Boys in Port Damali in the Menagerie Coast. Conditions in the orphanage were poor and abusive, and the children were forced to work by its headmaster. Sabian relentlessly belittled and attacked Fjord for his half-orcish heritage (see for further detail). In about 822 PD, when he and Fjord were about seventeen, Captain Vandran paid the headmaster for the opportunity to visit and solicit deckhands for his ship, the Tide's Breath. Sabian immediately volunteered. He and Fjord were the only new recruits from the orphanage and two of five total.

He served aboard the ship for the next thirteen years. During this time, he generally stopped speaking to Fjord, who felt this improved their relationship. Sabian's position on the crew by 835 PD is unidentified, but he is known to had been of lower rank than Fjord.

In early 835 PD, Sabian left Port Damali aboard the Tide's Breath for an unknown port west of Darktow. As the ship was overtaken by a storm on the return journey, Fjord noticed him going to the cargo hold, which was unusual for Sabian, and followed him. There, he discovered Sabian planting an explosive. Sabian threw multiple daggers at Fjord and escaped to the deck. At the moment of the explosion, Sabian jumped from the ship into the sea. Sabian returned to Port Damali, where he ransacked Vandran's warehouse in search of something. He was seen by a local butcher next door, who confirmed Sabian's survival to Fjord when Fjord arrived later that day.

Sabian then began working with Cadmus Leeland, a merchant, pirate, and captain of the Widow's Embrace. They were in Nicodranas a few months before, set about the middle of Cuersar 835 PD. At some point, he became a member of the Revelry and began living in Darktow.

Campaign 2: The Mighty Nein
Fjord alluded to Sabian when telling the Mighty Nein about the sinking of the Tide's Breath and its saboteur. Fjord later left Zadash alone and traveled toward the Menagerie Coast, listening in various taverns for anyone talking about Sabian. After one week of travel, he returned to Zadash unsuccessful and confided in the Mighty Nein about Sabian, Vandran, the sinking of the ship, and any possible connections they may have to his sword, the Sword of Fathoms. He told the group that he wished to visit Nicodranas in the Coast to begin investigating. He hoped to ultimately take revenge against Sabian and was more interested in killing him than in answers.

Adella told Fjord that Sabian recently began working with Cadmus, and Fjord had a dream from Uk'otoa in which he destroyed statues in his path, the first of which was of Sabian. He left the Coast without progress on locating Sabian and spoke no further about him for months. However, finding Sabian remained on his mind, he eventually quietly hired the bounty hunter Kotho for 200 gold to locate Sabian; he told her that wanted Sabian found but did not necessarily want to spend the time to do so himself. He told Jester Lavorre of this later while in Eiselcross, after confiding that he wished to have closure on multiple elements of his past before pursuing new things. She used Sending to contact Kotho, who by then discovered Sabian lived on Darktow Isle.

Fjord later informed Vandran that Sabian survived the sinking. Vandran was not surprised. Fjord also demonstrated his magical ability by briefly disguising himself as Sabian. He additionally told Vandran, whom he was inviting aboard his ship, "I can't guarantee you that we won't try and kill Sabian."

Relationship with Fjord
Sabian and Fjord grew up together in the Driftwood Asylum. Since at least they were ten, Sabian relentlessly mocked Fjord for his half-orcish heritage, belittling him as an ugly and dumb animal and openly speculating that Fjord was abandoned by his parents for it (as opposed to being orphaned). At one point, Sabian led the other children in drawing a grotesque caricature of Fjord on the door of the sleeping quarters, then that night kidnapping Fjord from the quarters to attack him. This caused Fjord to immediately file down his tusks, though Sabian was dismissive and insisted that it changed little; he dared Fjord to retaliate, but Fjord did not. By the time they were seventeen, years later, Fjord considered Sabian one of the primary reasons he wanted to escape the orphanage aboard a ship, to the point that he did not volunteer for the Tide's Breath because he wanted to avoid working with Sabian.

Aboard the Tide's Breath, Sabian no longer harassed Fjord; he stopped speaking to him, and Fjord felt their relationship became like that of strangers. He speculated that Sabian was equally desperate to escape the orphanage and was willing to cooperate with Fjord to do so. They were able to tolerate one another while working, and Fjord hoped that their relationship would improve. However, it is implied that Sabian cut a rope to attempt to drop Fjord overboard early in their career, shortly after Vandran complimented Fjord's seamanship. Despite this, Fjord remarked in 835 PD that, before the sinking, he still believed that their relationship had improved enough that they could work together and that "maybe that stuff had faded between us"; he began to doubt this perception after the ship sank.

Fjord described Sabian to others in poor terms, saying that Sabian "always been a piece of shit of one variety or another" and had "terrible judgement in the past". When it is suggested to Fjord that Sabian is up to no good, Fjord reacts with certainty that Sabian was doing something unsavory.

Appearances and mentions

 * Campaign 2: The Mighty Nein