Captain Lex Sneed (Deceased)
A pirate who mistook cruelty for strength, and whose halls now keep him company in silence.
What People Know
Captain Lex Sneed was a ruthless sea captain turned coastal tyrant, infamous along the waters near Valinport for his brutality, greed, and utter disregard for the lives of others. He ruled from the Drowned Halls, a half-flooded stronghold of stone and rot where tides did as much killing as his blades.
The Drowned Halls outlived him.
Not everyone else did.
Reputation
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Cruel, sadistic, and theatrical
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Feared by sailors and smugglers alike
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Known for turning captives into warnings
Lex Sneed was not admired.
He was endured, until he wasn’t.
The Drowned Halls
Sneed’s lair was a maze of submerged chambers, slick stone corridors, and rising tides—designed to disorient, exhaust, and terrify intruders before steel was ever drawn.
It was there that Gideon Kael lost his life.
Whether by Sneed’s direct order, his indifference, or the traps he left behind, Gideon’s death is inseparable from Sneed’s legacy.
Death
Captain Lex Sneed is dead.
Accounts differ on the details, but all agree on the result:
the terror of the Drowned Halls ended with him.
The sea reclaimed what it was owed.
Personality (Remembered)
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Loud, mocking, and needlessly cruel
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Took pleasure in power over the helpless
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Believed fear was loyalty
He never imagined a reckoning would reach him.
Legacy
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The Drowned Halls remain dangerous and haunted
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Survivors still wake from dreams of water and iron
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Gideon Kael’s death casts a long shadow
Sneed’s name is now spoken only as a curse.
Rumors
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Sneed hid something valuable beneath the Halls
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His crew scattered—and some want revenge
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The tides rise differently since his death