Vesrik Taipor

Vesrik Taipor
Personal details
Born	c. 1628 Vedkathna, Cadenza
Died	9 May 1521 Monsa
Occupation	Explorer

Vesrik Taipor (c. 1629 - 9 May 1661) was a Cadenzan ratafrë, or adventurer, who served the House of Giusti in the mid-seventeenth century.

Family background and early life

Vesrik Taipor was born c. 1629 to a landowning merchant family from Vedkathna. His family, who owned a warehouse in the capital, had long prospered in the flourishing Cadenzan grain trade. In 1641, however, their warehouse was destroyed in the Burning of Cadenza. Taipor's father used his remaining financial capital to commission a mercenary company which participated in the Cadenzan campaigns in Kelonna of 1645 and 1649.

Career

From the age of 14, Vesrik Taipor was apprenticed to a logistics agency in Cadenza. Although his father wished to keep his son out of the mercenary trade, by 1646 Taipor's duties included the assignment of escorts to colonial expeditions, and he developed numerous contacts among the ratafran and became absorbed in the mercenary industry, attending exercises and reading military textbooks. Nevertheless, by his father's death in 1655 he had never left the country. He took over administration of his family's mercenary company, which by this time was almost exclusively operating in and to Cadenzan Kamalbia. In late 1658 he joined his company's expedition to Tyúregar, with 79 men aboard his ship, but a January storm split the mainmast and he put in to Monsa for repairs.

In Monsa, Taipor was introduced to Prince Lucas II, who was instantly impressed with Taipor..? blah blah Taipor stays there 'til BC's rampage