Jaego Roth

Captain Jaego Roth is the mastermind and driving force behind the Grand Alliance that opposes Count Noctilus' Dreadfleet. Blaming the Vampire for the death of his family, Roth will stop at nothing to get revenge on his nemesis.

Jaego Roth is the captain of the Heldenhammer, the flagship of the Grand Alliance that ventures to the monster-haunted depths of the Galleon's Graveyard to hunt down Count Noctilus. But this was not always the case, nor how our tale truly begins.

For Captain Roth was once an infamous privateer from the pirate-isle of Sartosa, the son of the fabled Mapwright Indigio Roth. Roth's skill at the helm and knowledge of the sea spread his reputation far and wide throughout the ports of the Old World and beyond. He captained the Nightwatch, a sleek and deadly vessel hired out to do the work of any who could afford Roth's price, and at its command were hundreds of vessels were sent to the bottom of the sea.

But Roth began to long not for the sea but for home, for his wife and child back in distant Sartosa. When he returned to his home city, however, he found it aflame and his family slain. Count Noctilus had struck, the nigh-impregnable pirate isle pillaged by the Dreadfleet, thought by Roth until now to be only a legend.

When Roth returned home he not only found his family lying dead, but also his father, whose body lay curled around several strange artefacts. Roth grabbed the artefacts - an eldritch moondial, a great shell with a sea-chart pinned to its inside and an enchanted Arabyan spyglass - buried his family and swore an oath of revenge upon Noctilus and the Dreadfleet. Then he set sail for the Empire to find aid.

But he was to find that no aid was forthcoming except that which he could provide himself. The courts of nobles had no time for tales of the Undead and the cult of Sigmar was engaged in waging war against enemies of the Empire elsewhere. Roth was enraged and exasperated, and in his desperation stole the Grand Theogonist's own warship, the mighty Heldenhammer.

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Jaego Roth [[Category:J]] [[Category:R]]
 * White Dwarf Issue 382
 * pg. 16
 * pg. 18