[MENTION=20323]Quickleaf[/MENTION]- Like those magic items a lot. Gotta love the Guybrush coat.
And Mare Tenebraurum is a fantastic name.
I've had some trouble fitting the Commodore into quite as big a role as he had for Gunner Teague. He might be competition for the treasure on Teague's back, which Caillou has his own reasons for hunting.
The Secret of the Deep started off as some tidbit of lost lore he stumbled onto while in Paris. Perhaps in the library of the Lessaints? Either way, it's not something he fully understands himself. He just knows that it's some kind of treasure, likely mystical in nature, and through careful investigation, he's tracked down the one copy of the map on the old man's back. Based on the Aztec gold Teague carries, it's probably something that was lost during the downfall of the Aztecs.
I think Sir D'Arcy and Caillou are on a collision course, but unaware of it as of yet. Caillou's use of Sir D'Arcy's name has caused the doctor some problems-- incarceration, a bounty on his head, a succession of trigger-happy duelists on his heels-- but at this point, D'Arcy doesn't know who the impostor is. The halfling's reaction is that of someone who has been mildly inconvenienced, although the wake of bodies he leaves behind would seem to bely his icy reserve. The great danger in dealing with Sir D'Arcy is his stifling indifference and utter lack of proportion. All things are a means to an end, and that end is the furtherance of knowledge. So once he finds out it's the bird he taught arithmetic, D'Arcy might see Caillou as a happy accident, a throwaway experiment that has unexpectedly achieved potential, a former possession to be reclaimed. This will not prevent him from caging or killing his protege should his own interests be threatened, but at least at first, he would approach with intent to befriend. Caillou knows better than to have anything to do with any of his former masters at this point, however. Sir D'Arcy was, and is, a walking disaster to anyone who came near him.
Based on...all that, it certainly sounds to me like Sir D'Arcy might fit well with the Academie-- if they'd have a foreigner. [MENTION=23484]Kobold Stew[/MENTION], what do you think? Maybe he's just working for them in a mutually beneficial mercenary capacity.
I think the Baron de Pointis began as an enemy of Sir D'Arcy first, then the Lessaints. He and Caillou barely interacted, saw each other only at a distance, but came to be deadly enemies solely by virtue of being the last ones remaining. The Baron represents the nobility Caillou hates, while Caillou represents the remnants of the Baron's enemies which he could neither possess nor destroy. Ideally, the Baron would have interests on Hispaniola, would own slaves whom he mistreats, and basically be the worst of all aristocrats all around-- while also being a skilled and knowledgeable magician in his own right. They are rivals divided by class and species, but there's a degree of parity between them.
...Those are my immediate thoughts, at any rate. That was a lot of text, hopefully it's semi-coherent.
