Everything started... with a bang; the boom of cannon, the clap of iron against a hull. The whole ordeal raged on for hundreds of years! It was a battle between traitors and patriots.

The N.M.S. Tikvah was a fast and reliable merchant ship. Its job was to carefully transfer glorious treasures to and fro all across the world. Its crew worked clean and courteous: its captain, Sir Moritoi, the bravest in the navy. This combination faced any and all obstacles in its way, safely carrying all its riches deep in the Tikvahs heart.

One day, it all changed. The Tikvah ran into a terrible storm, later recorded to be a hurricane. Waves fifty feet high tore at them for hours, winds shredded at their hope, salt and dirt and rocks and broken bones and... well. In the end, everyone was all right, and the ship continued its course. They were making repairs at a nearby dock when suddenly..!

A few crew members surprised to see an unfamiliar face hidden beneath a cave of broken barrels. A stowaway! But this stowaway couldn't have been older than a year! The filly Peophin was terrified, so much in fact that the crew had a jolly time trying to actually catch her.

Eventually, they caught the stowaway and took her to Moritoi. 'What is it this time?!' The Captain fumed; he had been eating. When showed the stowaway, the strong Captain just looked at her, eyes piercing yet getting no response. When minutes wasted away, the filly snorted and neighed in impatience and promptly scuttled into the back of the room, ate every morsel on the Captain's plate, and fell asleep in his sock drawer.

Moritoi glanced back to the crew members and said she was to stay and be taught everything they knew! Now this was strange, but no questioning the captain.

But something horrendous was to befall the Tikvahs future. It was now fifteen years after the incident. The filly, now older and as bustling as all the other sailors, was named Tahitian Raez for the dock in which she was found, and after the sun's rays that beat on them after the hurricane.

It all happened in a flash. The Tikvah had just been given cargo by a royal ship. Their passengers wanted their treasures taken home before going into pirate waters. Thus, as Captain Moritoi turned about, he ordered the fire to sink the other ship. It and its passengers were never heard from again. Neither was the Tikvah, at least officially, until another faithless day many years later.

The traitorous ship was last seen coasting the ocean when its starboard side exploded. It immediately sunk with its tons of treasure, which weighed the Tikvah down into the unknown depths of the ocean. The piratical crew and Captain were captured by the nearby navy ship that reported their end. When the crew count was made, however, one sailor was missing..

The Raez of Tahitia.

I will forever miss you, Sin.
You were the one who showed me the extent of my abilities..
and then you disappeared...