Len Porter
Master Len Porter
Len Porter is the 35-year-old Master of the Hulk Blue Heron and the owner of Porter Shipping Company in the City of Lorancourt. He is a hard working and ambitious man, barely keeping his company afloat. He has made some risky business decisions in the past, and they have cost him much.
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
Healthy and strong, but with a worried countenance to his face.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Len Porter is the son of a longshoreman from Lomansloth. Never wealthy, Len's parents worked hard every single day just to get food onto the table for Len and his five brothers and sisters. When Len was 14, he took a job as a hand on a river barge hauling grain and stone between Lomansloth and Ben Doa. While on a run downriver, Len's father was killed in an accident while unloading stone.
Len continued to work to provide for his mother and his siblings, eventually working as a mate on a large vessel making routine runs from City of Wessfall to Lorancourt. When Lomain am Lomanni became Duke of Lorancourt, he instituted a series of construction projects that demanded thousands of tons of material to be shipped to the city on a daily basis, and Len saw a chance to make something of himself.
He took his meager savings, invested in a barge and a crew of three ancient sailors, and started hauling lumber from the western baronies to Lorancourt. Initially he was very successful. His barge, though slow, was easily able to load and unload several tons of cut lumber with each trip, netting Len a profit numbering in the thousands. He invested in a hulk named The Blue Heron and started hauling even more. However, as he tried to diversify his cargos and expand his profits, he ran afoul of several important merchants from Wessfall and Jorick, and these merchants began to plague him with costs, fees, fines and delays. To combat this situation, Len took on even more risky and expensive cargoes and found himself at a loss after each haul.
Len is now deeply in debt to an organization called the Lovelies, and is desperate to find a means to extricate himself from the mess he has found himself in.
Failures & Embarrassments
Len is in debt to a group called the Lovelies for 10,000 guilders and currently has no means by which he can pay the debt. If the problem can't be resolved soon, he will lose his ship... or his life.
Species
Ethnicity
Age
35
Date of Birth
November 18
Birthplace
Lomansloth
Children
Current Residence
Lorancourt
Owned Vehicles
Belief/Deity
Pantheon of Heaven
Aligned Organization
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