Alizandru Kovack (Serpent's Skull)

Alizandru Kovack is the captain of the Jenivere prior to its wreck on the island of Smuggler's Shiv. He was a hospitable host.

Appearance

A hearty Garundi man, the captain is large, but not obese, and generally boisterous. He wears a dress uniform fit for the Varisian navy, and his long overcoat is accented with gold thread and braids. He wears his hair and beard in narrow braids, which are in turn interwoven among themselves.

Confession

The captain's fate appears to have been to be transformed into a savage ghoul. The party was not able to communicate with him before they put him to rest. After breaking free from the charm magic, but prior to being transformed fully, he penned a confession which he left in the caverns. This was found by Pezzock and given to the party as a "treasure map."

I am Captain Alizandru Kovack, betrayer of my crew and destroyer of the good ship Jenivere. Hell would be a welcome escape from what hideous unlife looms before me, but it is no less a punishment than I deserve. That I was enslaved mind and body to a serpentine demon who wore a Varisian’s skin does not pardon me. It is my weakness that led the Jenivere, her crew, and her passengers to their doom. That Ieana has abandoned me here is nothing more than the fate I deserve. I do not beg forgiveness, but I despair that she lives still, and that she seeks something dire on this forsaken isle—she seemed particularly interested in Red Mountain. If you read this and you be a kind soul, seek out what I have become and destroy me, and then seek out Ieana and slay her as well. And to those whose lives I have helped destroy, I can only apologize from this, my dark cradle and darker grave.