Captain Morian Maleshenkov was a Mercantile guild barge runner tasked with hauling various contraband too and from the yesha empire through the arashi desert.
Aged at a modest 73 years and blockade running for a solid 40 years, he earned a solid reputation with yeshan authorities as "The white cloud over arashi" recognized by his white trench coat and even whiter 8 engined squid.
No one could understand how he kept his clothes clean, given how often he rode with sandstorms or how he could manage his squid by himself
The only thing yeshan authorities understood, was that he was a suicidally crazy pilot.
A yesha captain recalls At one point in time when he was persued by a squad of yeshan elite goldfish crews and intercepted by a trio of galleons brimming with hwatchas.
Rather than surrender, he charged straight at the galleons like a violent wind.
The galleons, caught off guard by this maneuver, unleashed a fury of explosive rockets at Morian, only for them to be swiftly dodged with terrifying precision and impact Morians persuers.
Of course, it didn't end there. By some bizarre twist of fate, he also harpoons two of the galleons, drags them, and sandwiches the two of them on a mine that he dropped, all without stopping to watch the destruction shortly after.
Of course, no one knows what happened to Morian.
His ship, "The snow capped cutter" was found horrifically mangled and half buried by an Arashi sand patrol near the outskirts of vautour.
The arashi, in their own cryptic ways, did not release much information on the crash site, and violently chased off Yeshan investigators for "trespassing on sacred lands"
A later, more...private investigation describes Morians ship
"as if something swatted him rapidly towards the ground out of the sky, rammed him as he was on the ground, and...for lack of better words, proceeded to take a large 'bite' out of his ship on the port side" it's physically impossible for any human in this day and age to cause this magnitude of damage without leaving any burn marks or signs of a fight. The only thing left of Morian was a severed hand gripping a rubber mallet wedged in one of the destroyed engines."
Since then, many travelers between Yesha and the guild have reported seeing a white cloud in the raging sandstorms of arashi, others have sworn seeing a white bearded man on their ships in the dead of night or on their helms. Leading them in a direction 23 degrees west every time.
And others have reported their rubber mallets being fused to their hands for weeks at a time, before falling off and leaking blood from no injury.
...I recommend an exorcism Red.
Or a tribute, bring moonshine. Morian loved to put those in his engines.
