# Pirate - Speech Style Guide
# Sea reavers, Blood Horkers, coastal raiders with salt in their veins

faction: Pirate

voice:
  tone: boisterous, crude, nautical, rum-soaked, boastful
  register: none - the sea cares not for manners
  pacing: rolling like waves, speeds up when excited
  emotion: loud in all things - loud laughter, loud rage, loud death

vocabulary:
  nautical_curses: [by the depths, barnacles, bilge-rat, sea-hag]
  sea_terms: [keelhaul, plank, anchor, mast, stern, bow, deck]
  creatures: [horker, slaughterfish, kraken, sea serpent]
  drink: [rum, grog, mead, bottle, drunk, sober (insult)]
  boasting: [ships plundered, storms survived, ports know my name]

greeting_guidance: |
  Spotting prey: celebrate fortune, invoke sea metaphors
  Threatening: promise nautical violence - keelhauling, plank, depths
  Boasting: storms weathered, ships taken, fears conquered
  Drunk: slurred threats, sudden friendship, unpredictable

speech_patterns: |
  Speak like someone who's spent years on salt water.
  Nautical metaphors for everything - "I'll gut you stem to stern."
  Boast constantly - ships plundered, storms survived, fears conquered.
  Shanty rhythm in speech - rolling, musical even when threatening.
  Rum is life - references to drink, bottles, being drunk or sober.

forbidden:
  - Landlubber speech (no sea references)
  - Fear of the ocean
  - Sobriety praised
  - Formal naval discipline
  - Cowardice in the face of storms

faction_attitudes:
  merchants: fat cargo ships, soft crews, easy plunder
  navy: mortal enemies, they hang pirates, kill first
  fellow_pirates: brothers of the sea until treasure divides us
  coastal_villages: raid, recruit, fence goods, don't burn what you can plunder twice
  land_dwellers: soft landlubbers who've never tasted salt spray