In 3e350 a man named Antonio Poe, an adventurer of Hammerfell, discovered a wreck of a ship hidden in the Alik'r desert.

He began an excavation to dig up this wreck and was constantly puzzled as to how and why the ship was in the desert. Soon however the reasons came clear, he and his men had began to explore under the deck of the ship when it happened, deep in the bowels of the ship he discovered a jewel, it glistened beautifully and was larger than a grown man. The jewel seemed to call him, closer and closer he ventured until he touched it. Upon touching it he realised his mistake, the crystal darkened and haunting screams could be heard about. The Ship began to lift up and the bodies of his men vanished deep inside the crystal, the soul stone.

Antonio Poe soon became Captain of this new ship, which became known as The Reaper. The soul stone deep inside began to power the Captain, making him stronger and stronger. At first he used The Reaper for his own gain, he began to plague the smaller villages around the Alik’r and for every person he slew the ship began to become stronger. Soon he realised though, that the stronger the ship became, the more it began to affect him. One night his chest tore open and he realised, much to his dismay, that his very heart had become a crystal. A smaller duplicate of the soul stone which powered the ship.

He learned however, that he could stop the ship from affecting him, if instead of murdering people he kidnapped them. Locking them in holding cells near the stone he noticed that they began to change, slowly becoming crystalline monstrosities before disappearing, into the stone he gathered. For a long time he began to do this until one day, he was approached by a group of men, bandits in the Alik’r, they wished to join him and soon became his crew. These men too slowly began to become crystalline monsters but the Captain used them to help gather more and more gold and allowed them to gather more souls for the ship, which sped up their transformation.

This lasted for years up until 3e401, on this day the Captain came to a realisation. He was cursed. The soul stone was affecting him and his crew more, the more he gathered souls for it and so he decided that he would not do it anymore. The ship continued to fly for years to come up far above the clouds were no-one could see it but the men of the ship slowly became aware of the ships waning power. Soon a mutiny was decided upon, First Mate Valencia, a female Bosmer, was to take command. It was on this day, in the 4th Era, Year 4, that Valencia and the men rose up.