Valeria Popsy

Valeria Popsy is a legendary pirate captain of the Crystal Coast who is known for piloting the Poise and Mercy, a pillaging vessel that is ranked among the most deadly crews of their age. She is widely regarded for her wholesale destruction of an Illyrian naval fleet with one ship, her mythic theft of the Throudalan Stormscream Horn, and her infamous raid on Port Madrabar which resulted in a two-week citywide fire. Little is known about Popsy's origin or family history since her name was chosen upon acquisition of her ship, though all speculation suggests that she was born in Alahil around 977 SE.

Popsy named herself and the Poise and Mercy in the year 1020. The ship was previously known as The Owlbear and was captained by Collin Barghest, an infamous pirate in his own right. Accounts indicate that Popsy, positioning herself as a cabin wench, seduced and then murdered Barghest, poisoned his entire crew, and then set about to assemble her own crew. The crew of the Poise and Mercy was composed entirely of women who Popsy met on her travels who she helped escape positions of servitude and oppression to embark on a life of rampant piracy.

A high-level paladin/rogue feared and respected in all the ports of the western seas, Popsy is known to have kept a long list of adventures which she would complete before her death. This list is sometimes referred to as the Redwheel list, because of the quote often attributed to Popsy: "I will tie my living corpse to the wheel and paint the helm scarlet with my blood before I let them say there was something I could not do." An item on this list was having sex with a Siren, which Popsy famously accomplished c. 1202 SE, bearing a half-elven half-Siren child from this union who came to be colloquially known as "Sunken Treasure".

Nowadays, information on Popsy's wherabouts is scarce. Following the ratification of the Starboard Addendum and the scouring of Incognita by the Grand Kainos National Union, she is said to have disappeared. The most recent intelligence suggests that she is working on the creation of a new pirate city known as Fathomfold.