Quartus Tolmead

Quartus Tolmead lived sometime in the late 18th to early 19th century, born in Norway and succeeded as a sea captain and merchant. At some point during his later and more established years, he led a small fleet of ships toward Newfoundland for trading, but was led off course. His crew eventually saw land and a potential safe harbor for landing, but he, losing his senses in the storm, captained the ships into the high cliffs just South of the harbor, with many lives battered into the cliffs. Tolmead refused to cross the sea again, claiming that his wits had been stolen by a siren in the bay which waited for the day he would die. The remainder of his crew, with no funds with which to rebuild their fleet, settled the area and built the bay into a trade port and fishing community. Tolmead served as the first leader of this community, insisting that no one leave it for fear of the siren. The quartermaster of his ship, Mister Magnusson, and his first mate, Mister Ultauer, founded a trade enterprise with what they were able to salvage and built up the port as a hub in local trade routes, not involving themselves with Tolmead and what had occurred, but rather with their future. After generations and mistranslation, this settlement gained the name Mermaid. Tolmead was Norwegian Orthodox.

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