Jaded
Jaded (real name unknown) took that name at the age of 16, after a childhood fraught with frustration and little love. The daughter of a Navy Captain, her mother disappeared or dead, she was passed around from relative to relative, only too happy to take the money from her father for upbringing, but never actually doing the work. She learned to fend for herself at a young age, wandering the streets at all hours, learning the simpler thieving skills, playing with the other unwanted urchins.
Upon one visit from her father near her 14th birthday, he was so dismayed at her appearance and apparent lack of any manners resembling those of a lady that he decided it was time to take her care and upbringing into his own hands. He took her aboard ship. That year was one of the happiest in her life. She spent hours with her father learning etiquette and manners, and while the lessons themselves were less then enjoyable, the time with her father was precious beyond compare. When she wasn’t being lessoned, she was slowly learning the ins and outs of the ship, taught knot tying and some of the simpler tasks by an indulgent crew who took her on as a kind of mascot. This life was to be short lived however.
On the eve of her 15th birthday, and just coming into true womanhood, her father’s ship was attacked during the blackest of nights. Pirates, fierce and bloody, boarded and destroyed everything, taking the stores and killing the crew. She watched as her father was cut down by the Captain of the Pirates. They would have cut her down as well, but for the staying hand of that same Captain. He thought her a pretty little thing, slightly exotic, presumably from her mother’s side. He knew a place she would be well paid for.
After months of travel aboard the Pirate ship, where against all odds she befriended them as well, she was deposited on a doorstep, and presented to the Madame of the Eilean er Coayl Grayse. However, at that point the Pirate Captain had grown quite fond of the young girl, and rather then sell her off into slave labor, he petitioned the Madame to apprentice her in the House, teaching her what she would need to know to survive. The Madame, a good natured woman with a wink in her smile, agreed, and took the girl in. No name was given, just a year of “hey girl” whenever she was needed. On the night of her first presentation, a coming out if you will, the Madame asked her what name she would go by. Considering the life she had lead, jaded she had become, and Jaded she would be called.
