We’ll present today 3 other secondary characters that you’ll maybe find when exploring the island. Those three are known for having a natural charisma but are quite hard to figure out on first encounter. They could be very good allies if you understand their specificities & behaviours.
Eustache
The Black Monk
We'll start with Eustache, youngest son of a french noble family. The path to his father’s titles barred by his older brothers, his mother sent him to the benedictine monks.
He left the abbey after his father’s assassination, with only bitterness and vengeance in his pockets. He exiled himself to Spain to study fencing, and some say, black magic. He then enlisted at the service of the Count of Boulogne, to whom he demanded justice for his father.
But he faced the harsh truth of noble schemes and lost his trial, meaning all his land and titles, to the filthy Count.
He gutted him clean and well. Then he wrecked havoc on the northern seas as a pirate known as the Black Monk. His reign of terror lasted a good decade before he entered in a terrible fight with a viking longship, leaving him for dead on a drifting piece of wood. He wrecked on the island, more dead than alive.
Shanaw
Beothuk Huntress
Shanaw was the daughter of the chief of the Beothuk tribe, a small native village living on an island not far from the island of Dead In Vinland.
A free spirit, she was an excellent hunter and runner, and was known amongst her kin for very mischevious behavior. Her many wacky moments, like dancing and howling naked under the moonlight, earned her the nickname of “Crazy Moon”.
How did she end up on the island of Eirik and his family? And why? That’s a secret you will have to uncover, even if her shell may be hard to crack.
The only thing we know, is that she took the name of “Hidden Raven”. And that she doesn’t want to talk to Eirik. Weird.
Yaghoub
Persian Merchant
Yaghoub is an appealing Persian Merchant with a majestuous beard neatly combed and filled with precious jewels. He is always giving you big friendly smiles, always has an incredible story to tell. But despite these classic merchant features, he also shows an astonishing sense of sharing, and an infinite kindness.
Some may think he only works as a greedy merchant to be able to travel the world on his beloved ship. In fact, each time he manages to make a good profit, he instantly spend it all on a new, bigger, longer, riskier expedition, making him the poorest merchant there is. But when you see this spark in his eyes when he tells a – mostly invented – story, you understand that he carries his true wealth inside his heart.
A terrible storm made him wreck on the shores of the island of Vinland. He survived alongside a mysterious passenger…
That's all for today, next time, there will be a special post, quite different from what you've seen before, so, stay tuned!