My current character is an enormously tall, blonde and clocky Nord woman who is never going to marry or become a lord, only a mercenary and trader with workshops funding her troop's wages in the down time between wars.

Her clan is the Völur (which is the plural Norse word for Sorceress). She has scary face paint and her sigil is a hand with the evil eye in the palm. Her ship is Sturgian Lodya (like a black longship with a ram) called Witch and the figurehead is a Siren (which we just captured). She fights with a sword and field, and a 2 handed axe. Her armor and gear is intentionally light for gliding across a deck and swimming to enemy ships.

She has 4 female companions all with grievances against the Patriarchy or mystical backgrounds. Her second in command is a Norse woman who was made to marry a Vanna (Sami equivalent) man and learnt their ways, then her brothers tried to make her poison his clan in an ethnic cleansing, so she booked it. The medic is Sturgian wisewoman, whose mother and fiancé were butchered before her wedding in a raid. Her steward is an Aserai woman whose brothers disowned her when she lost their money when a good investment was destroyed by an accidental fire. Finally my scout is a Battanian woman who was cursed to never have a happy marriage and had three husbands die in quick succession.

I kind of imagine them as big Coven and polycule. Their crew is a motley mix of Nords, Imperial/Sturgian Sailors, Sea Raiders, Corsairs and random convoy guards we've rescued.

I'm having a lot of fun.