"I met your father, once. I have several of his works in my sanctum. A great man. Certainly a man of honour."
- —The Grand Theogonist Volkmar the Grim to Jaego Roth.[1a]
Indigio Roth
Sartosan explorer and cartographer, Indigio Roth, also known as the Mapwright of Tilea. In his prime, Indigio Roth was a large and fearsomely intelligent man. He was known to the common people of Tilea simply as the Mapwright, for he sailed the farthest reaches of the Great Ocean in search of knowledge, and his sea-charts were the finest in the land. The Mapwright's name passed into the lore of the Old World for his nautical exploits. The same is true of his son Jaego who, with his last act, became one of the most celebrated captains of the high seas.[1]
Enlightenment[]
He sailed the seas on the warship, Enlightenment, a warship now permanently moored at the Rusting Harbour of Sartosa, used as a homestead by the Roth family. When the Mapwright lost both of his legs to a Sea Giant attack, the weather-beaten old explorer finally retired his warship and settled with his family. After all, he had already made maps of all the islands and coastlines of the Old World - and, if rumour was to be believed, of lands much further afield. The Mapwright enjoyed a great deal of respect in Sartosa, though his wife would regularly scold him for filling the mind of their son Jaego with stories of the surreal realms that lay beyond the veil of midnight, and the curse of the restless dead.[1]
Indigio Roth inside the Wreckers Bounty in Sartosa
During its days of glory it was a masterpiece of shipbuilding, the most beautiful vessel on the high seas, but the constant grind of Sartosa had taken its toll. Now she leant heavily upon scaffolds and rusted iron spars. Her once-green hull is caked in soot and guano, and a spider’s web of ropes stretched out over the ramshackle outhouses clamped upon her hull like giant barnacles.[1]
Roth had clothed the interior of his galleon with countless treasures over the course of his illustrious career, and virtually all of them were highly flammable.[1]
The drawing room is crammed full of exotic volumes that would worth a fortune to the Colleges of Magic in Altdorf. The corridors and stairwells leading from the drawing room are hung with priceless tapestries and the friezes painted on the ceilings were exceptional examples of the cartographer’s art.[1]
Old Crew Members[]
- Heindal Fredricksen - Only known member survived, known as Black Socket.[1b]
- Red Hager.[1b]
- Bozetti.[1b]
- Better-than-Thou.[1b]
- Jan the Knife.[1b]
- Inky Schultze.[1b]
- Dividio.[1b]
- Black Nils.[1b]
- Orinoco.[1b]
- Long Morgan.[1b]
Trivia[]
The man who runs the Wreckers Bounty is likely Indigio Roth, his title, aesthetic and gear all resemble the description given of the man in the novel Dreadfleet, his glasses were made by the Golden Magus himself.[1] As his son is already dead in Total War according to the unique quest item of Noctilus (Captain Roth's Moondial), and his son only went to found the Great Alliance after Indigio's death, this is likely a homage.
Sources[]
- 1: Dreadfleet (Novel) by Phil Kelly
- 2: Total War: Warhammer II (Videogame)
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