Captain Valentine Blaye

The third child and only son of Augustus Blaye, a successful merchant of San Serifino, and the daughter of a nomadic tribal chieftain of the Sipsi peoples, Valentine was offered a midshipman’s birth aboard the old Seraph then the flagship of the small San Serfine fleet at the age of twelve. Serving in that capacity at the battles of Ellerasath and Hell’s Gate he was commissioned as an Ensign at the remarkably young age of seventeen. Given his first independent command aboard the revenue cutter Egret as a twenty-one year old Lieutenant, he served for eight years before being posted as Second Officer aboard the Obdurate. During the battle of the three fleets he took command of the Obdurate at the death of her commanding officer and was able to save her from the fate of the rest of the San Serifine fleet when it was obliterated by the Imperial Fleet under Grand Admiral Toctalus. Although San Serifino managed to avoid complete absorption into the Empire under the terms of the treaty of Heliopolis, the peace terms called for the disbanding of the entire San Serifine Navy.

Three years after the treaty was signed, Blaye took command of the Revenge, the first Letter of Marque ship to fly the San Serifine flag. Although his commission as master and commander only permits the pursuit of smugglers and sky pirates, stories report that the Revenge has destroyed no less than three Imperial patrol craft and a Tantalus class Light Cruiser. Now in his late forties, Valentine Blaye is something of a folk hero to the San Serifine people, and a thorn on the side of the Empire. The government of San Serifino awarded him the order of the Golden Badger and denies all reports of illegal activity on the part of the captain of the most heavily armed “merchantman” in the whole of the San Serifine merchant fleet.


Photography by Wasabi Jesus
Clothing by Lastwear
Model is BJ Becker