<characters>
	<vangregor>
		<fullname>Russell Van Gregor</fullname>
		<formalname>Captain Van Gregor</formalname>
		<firstname>Russell</firstname>
		<lastname>Van Gregor</lastname>
		<description>Lucky are the souls who count this gentle giant among their allies.  RUSSELL VAN GREGOR is slow to anger, but pity the man who would mistake his temperance for weakness.  Captain Van Gregor's wisdom and resolve on the sea have earned the respect of his crew.  His kindness and easy-going manner have been known to convert bitter rivals to dear drinking buddies.  How could a boy who lost his father to the sea at such a tender age grow into a captain of Van Gregor's stature?  Perhaps the good captain learned early on that he should live every day above ground as if it were his last.</description>
		<intro>January 1st, 1700-Ah, three days at anchor in Great Cayman, your home port!  A jolly time you've had, indeed, but it's about time to set sail.  You make the rounds to the alehouses, buying all your crew a last drink and delivering a gentle reminder to be onboard by sun up.  You finally locate your last crewmate, the cook, lying in a barn, next to a colossal pig.  You wonder which one it is that's snoring loudly. On awakening, your cook remembers receiving a message from a page earlier: the Governor of Great Cayman would like to see you before you leave.  Hmm, what could the Governor have to ask of you?</intro>
		<freetradeintro>January 1st, 1705.  Following the defeat of the evil pirate LaRoche, and amassing a sizeable fortune, RUSSEL VAN GREGOR gave his fortunes away to a home for orphans.  The Sisters of Mercy were able to open orphanages across the Caribbean, thanks to Van Gregor's generosity.  The children loved playing with him, climbing on top of him, playing their favorite game ''Tree''.  Indeed, Van Gregor's massive bulk will come in handy once again as he dedicates his life to fighting the pirates and raising money to build schools in the Caribbean.  Mother would have been so proud!</freetradeintro>
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		<port>cayman</port>
		<cash>1000</cash>
		<bank>0</bank>
		<debt>0</debt>
		<fullgameonly>false</fullgameonly>
		<startingitem>combatavoidance</startingitem>
		<ship name="Luisa" type="sloop" guns="5" firepots="2" chains="2" item="reinforcedoak"/>
	</vangregor>

	<mcgowan>
		<fullname>Christine McGowan</fullname>
		<formalname>Miss McGowan</formalname>
		<firstname>Christine</firstname>
		<lastname>McGowan</lastname>
		<description>Prosperity is a great teacher, adversity greater.  CHRISTINE McGOWAN has known both.  A feud between townspeople and her wealthy merchant father led to rioting outside her family's estate when she was but fifteen years old.  A wild fire in young Christine's eyes (as well as two sharp daggers in her clutches) allowed her to escape with her own life.  She found a kindred soul in Sir Stephan the Silent, an English gentleman left mute by a pirate's dagger many years ago.  Stephen trained Christine in the art of the blade, cultivating a fondness in her for humiliating those who would underestimate her skill.  Fate would not grant this girl the simple life of a merchant's daughter.  Life on the ocean would be her destiny.</description>
		<intro>January 1st, 1700-What a drunken bunch of louts! Could this mob of ill-behaved gorillas be the crew you've chosen?  No matter, they'll be sober when you sat sail at sun-up.  What's this?  One of them bears the uniform of the Governor's page.  You receive a message:  the Governor demands to meet with you before you depart.  Odd.  The old goat could barely remember your name when you were a polite young lady about town.  No matter, you decide.  You will stop by the mansion before setting sail.  Perhaps there is profit to be made by it.”</intro>
		<freetradeintro>January 1st, 1705.  Enough is enough!  After fighting pirates ten times her size, becoming the most successful merchant in the Caribbean, AND crushing Sebastian LaRoche's fleet, CHRISTINE McGOWAN has had enough!  It would be one thing if she got to keep the spoils of war and the profits of trade, but NO, daddy had to ''put it away where it's safe''.  He's such a stuffy banker!  Oh the nerve!  Proving she's not a little girl wasn't enough.  Fighting pirates wasn't enough.  So now, Christine is starting over.  If she does well for herself, she's not telling daddy!</freetradeintro>
		<altdescription>Purchase the full version of TRADEWINDS 2 in order to play as CHRISTINE McGOWAN, the fierce swordswoman expanding her family's empire.</altdescription>
		<portrait>
			<bitmap>assets/graphics/characters/portrait-christine.jpg</bitmap>
			<alphamap>assets/graphics/characters/portrait-alpha.png</alphamap>
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		<hiportrait>
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			<alphamap>assets/graphics/characters/portrait-alpha.png</alphamap>
		</hiportrait>
		<offportrait>
			<bitmap>assets/graphics/characters/portrait-christine.jpg</bitmap>
			<alphamap>assets/graphics/characters/portrait-alpha.png</alphamap>
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		<port>portroyale</port>
		<cash>1000</cash>
		<bank>0</bank>
		<fullgameonly>false</fullgameonly>
		<indemo>false</indemo>
		<startingitem>specialinterest</startingitem>
		<ship name="Rasputina" type="sloop" guns="5" firepots="2" chains="2" item="fast_cannon"/>
	</mcgowan>
	
	<verdugo>
		<fullname>Ignacio Verdugo</fullname>
		<formalname>Señor Verdugo</formalname>
		<firstname>Ignacio</firstname>
		<lastname>Verdugo</lastname>
		<description>The salty heat of a summer day in Caraccas. The sun framing the face of his father.  A strange, rough man grabbing his father's most finely crafted sword.  Loud, sharp words, followed by a low wail.  This is how IGNACIO VERDUGO remembers the last moment's of his father's life.  Later, he would wonder why this killer, the pirate Sebastian LaRoche, had let him live.  Perhaps it was pity for the boy.  More likely, it was a simple oversight.  Ignacio had expected to take his father's place as the finest blacksmith in Caraccas.  That day, though, the boy's dreams were replaced by the duties of a man.  He now lives for the day that LaRoche will feel the salty sting of a blade between the ribs, and a vengeance complete.</description>
		<altdescription>Purchase the full version of TRADEWINDS 2 in order to play as IGNACIO VERDUGO, the dashing Spanish mercenary out to avenge the death of his father.</altdescription>
		<intro>January 1st, 1700-The trick is to slip out of Beatriz' bed in the early morning, without her father catching you on the stairs, make your way through the neighborhood without Isabella or Anna noticing that you are still in town, then pay a quick visit to Maria before you have to meet your crew on board.  Not bad for a shore leave of only one night. Oh, but wait!  The Governor wanted you to stop by before you set sail.  How can you make this work?  Ah, but the crew will wait. . . </intro>
		<freetradeintro>January 1st, 1705.  "Vengeance is mine!"  IGNACIO VERDUGO shouts, his fist raised to the sky.  His father's death is avenged as he watches his enemy's vessel sink into the ocean, carrying Sebastian LaRoche with it.  But now Ignacio has other problems to deal with.  On the high road to revenge, he met, and fell in love with, no fewer than 237 different women.  Women with expensive tastes.  "Did I really promise chocolates, precious gems, the moon, and my never ending love to all of them?"  Supporting this many women will not come cheap.  Well, it's time to get started.</freetradeintro>
		<portrait>
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			<alphamap>assets/graphics/characters/portrait-alpha.png</alphamap>
		</portrait>
		<hiportrait>
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			<alphamap>assets/graphics/characters/portrait-alpha.png</alphamap>
		</hiportrait>
		<offportrait>
			<bitmap>assets/graphics/characters/portrait-verdugo.jpg</bitmap>
			<alphamap>assets/graphics/characters/portrait-alpha.png</alphamap>
		</offportrait>
		<port>caraccas</port>
		<cash>1000</cash>
		<bank>0</bank>
		<debt>0</debt>
		<startingitem>pricebreak</startingitem>
		<fullgameonly>true</fullgameonly>
		<ship name="Verona" type="sloop" guns="5" firepots="2" chains="2" item="heavy_cannon"/>
	</verdugo>

	<azul>
		<fullname>Adia Azul</fullname>
		<formalname>Captain Azul</formalname>
		<firstname>Adia</firstname>
		<lastname>Azul</lastname>
		<description>No one knows the value of freedom better than ADIA AZUL.  As a slave girl on a plantation in the French colony of Louisiana, she watched the men of the sea come and go as they pleased, answering to no master.  With only a knife and the clothes on her back, she escaped into the deepest part of the bayou, where no sensible man would follow.  The solitude and peril of the swamps taught her well.  Years later, she liberated another group of slaves on the plantation, and they commandeered a ship moored in the port.  Her life as a free woman was just beginning.</description>
		<altdescription>Purchase the full version of TRADEWINDS 2 in order to play as ADIA AZUL, the French African slave who ran away to become a Pirate Queen.</altdescription>
		<intro>January 1st, 1700-The ship is quiet.  You stride on deck and watch a crack of light escape the horizon.  Once again, your crew sleeps through the daily miracle of sunrise.  How can they waste these precious minutes of the dawn?  Ah, but they are free to do as they wish now. . .  as are you.  Well, it is the Governor's lucky day, then.  You shall do as he asks and grace him with your presence before setting sail.  What could that old reprobate want from you?  Just in case, you strap on your pistols before setting out for the Governor's Mansion.</intro>
		<freetradeintro>January 1st, 1705.  The defeat of Sebastian LaRoche behind her, ADIA AZUL is ready to move on to more important things. All her efforts will now be focused on leading the greatest slave revolt ever.  It'll take a lot of money, and a massive force.  The only payment she requires:  chocolate.  Lots of chocolate.  It's kind of a weakness for Adia.  Her crew is the luckiest crew in the world.  Well, ''lucky'' if they like chocolate.  They don't eat gruel.  They eat chocolate gruel.  No mere mead is used in toasts.  Only the best chocolate mead imported from Belgium.</freetradeintro>
		<portrait>
			<bitmap>assets/graphics/characters/portrait-adia.jpg</bitmap>
			<alphamap>assets/graphics/characters/portrait-alpha.png</alphamap>
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		<hiportrait>
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			<alphamap>assets/graphics/characters/portrait-alpha.png</alphamap>
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		<offportrait>
			<bitmap>assets/graphics/characters/portrait-adia.jpg</bitmap>
			<alphamap>assets/graphics/characters/portrait-alpha.png</alphamap>
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		<port>santodomingo</port>
		<cash>6000</cash>
		<bank>0</bank>
		<debt>2000</debt>
		<startdifficulty>2</startdifficulty>
		<fullgameonly>true</fullgameonly>
		<startingitem>halfpricedrinks</startingitem>
		<ship name="Reina" type="sloop" guns="5" firepots="2" chains="2" item="extraspace"/>
	</azul>

	<laroche>
		<fullname>Sebastian LaRoche</fullname>
		<formalname>Captain Sebastian LaRoche</formalname>
		<firstname>Sebastian</firstname>
		<lastname>LaRoche</lastname>
		<description>Tongues that tell tales of SEBASTIAN LaROCHE are often severed quickly.  Is it true that when he was just 14, he murdered his own family in Martinique for money to finance his first voyage as a pirate?  No one knows for certain.  There are those who say that the man is the devil himself, placed here on earth to gather the souls of the foolish and escort them to the fiery furnace.  Anyone encountering him would be well advised to surrender all valuables and pray for mercy.</description>
		<altdescription>Beat TRADEWINDS 2 with one of the other characters first in order to play as SEBASTIAN LaROCHE, the most feared pirate ever to sail the Caribbean.</altdescription>
		<intro>January 1, 1700-It's dangerous for you to enter town, so you've arrived alone late one foggy night in Curacao disguised as a priest.  You pass a ransom poster bearing your likeness and a list of crimes.  You smile.  One of your older brother's retainers is visiting the Governor's mansion, and you've come hoping to take confession.  You listen outside a window, then slip back into the fog like a whisper.  Pleasantries, shop talk and small talk.  No one mentions Sebastian.  No proof tonight, but perhaps you should pay a surprise visit to the Governor, and hear what he has to say.</intro>
		<freetradeintro>January 1st, 1705.  That pesky Verdugo Jr. just couldn't get over his father's death.  Kept talking about it.  On and on and on.  It was a mercy killing, dispensing of the pest, but it cost a pretty penny and most of his crew.  Now, it's back to business.  Exiled for killing his brother Jean Joseph Jacques LaRoche, a powerful dignitary in France, SEBASTIAN LaROCHE is ready to build a new empire.  An empire that he will lead.  In his eyes, men only understand two things:  power and wealth.  LaRoche intends to use both.</freetradeintro>
		<portrait>
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		<hiportrait>
			<bitmap>assets/graphics/characters/portrait-laroche-hot.jpg</bitmap>
			<alphamap>assets/graphics/characters/portrait-alpha.png</alphamap>
		</hiportrait>
		<offportrait>
			<bitmap>assets/graphics/characters/portrait-laroche.jpg</bitmap>
			<alphamap>assets/graphics/characters/portrait-alpha.png</alphamap>
		</offportrait>
		<port>curacao</port>
		<cash>20000</cash>
		<bank>0</bank>
		<debt>60000</debt>
		<fullgameonly>true</fullgameonly>
		<startingitem>larocheskull</startingitem>
		<startdifficulty>5</startdifficulty>
		<ship name="The Phantom" type="schooner" guns="10" firepots="10" chains="10" tikibombs="1" item="reinforcedoak"/>
	</laroche>

	<custom>
		<fullname>Custom Character</fullname>
		<formalname>Captain Jack Flash</formalname>
		<firstname>Custom</firstname>
		<lastname>Character</lastname>
		<description>Click on the empty portrait to create your own custom character.  Choose from several attributes and let our Character Generator do the rest!</description>
		<altdescription>Beat TRADEWINDS 2 with one of the main characters in order to play as your very own CUSTOM CHARACTER.  You can use our patented character generation feature to start your own adventure!</altdescription>
		<intro>January 1, 1700. Your adventure begins.</intro>
		<freetradeintro>January 1st, 1705.  The evil pirate LaRoche is now gone, but {player} knows full well there's more work to be done.  The wealth amassed all went to rebuilding towns destroyed by the wicked pirates.  It's time to start anew.  Building wealth is the new goal of this crew.  There are still pirates to be sure, but now it's time to seize the moment.  For profits and glory!</freetradeintro>
		<portrait>
			<bitmap>assets/graphics/characters/portrait-laroche.jpg</bitmap>
			<alphamap>assets/graphics/characters/portrait-alpha.png</alphamap>
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		<hiportrait>
			<bitmap>assets/graphics/characters/portrait-laroche-hot.jpg</bitmap>
			<alphamap>assets/graphics/characters/portrait-alpha.png</alphamap>
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			<alphamap>assets/graphics/characters/portrait-alpha.png</alphamap>
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		<port>curacao</port>
		<cash>1000</cash>
		<bank>0</bank>
		<debt>0</debt>
		<custom>true</custom>
		<startdifficulty>2</startdifficulty>
		<startingitem>custom</startingitem>
                <ship name="Spear" type="sloop" guns="5" firepots="2" chains="2" item="reinforcedoak"/>
	</custom>
</characters>
