Captain Cinnabar

Captain Cinnabar, also known as Bloodbones, is the main villain of the Fighting Fantasy gamebook Bloodbones, one of the most recent gamebooks of the series. He is an undead Pirate Lord worshipper of a demonic Voodoo deity who killed the game's protagonist's family, triggering his or her thirst for revenge. Bloodbones and the concept of an undead pirate being heavily based on the novel On Stranger Tides.

About Cinnabar
Cinnabar numbers among the most dreaded pirates to ever dwell the seas of Titan, rivalling in infamy with Varek Azzur himself. He is the leader of the Pirates of the Black Skull, a large and bloddthirsty crew which he commands aboard his mastership called the "Virago". Every pirate he commands bearing a Black Skull tatoo on the back of their hand. He also commands many other pirate crews and indirectly controls most, if not all the piracy plaguing the Western Ocean. He mostly operates in the Diamond Sea in the north of the continent od the Old World, and has several secret bases around, including one in Bone Island: an island where a temple of Quezkari is located. Also, his pirates control most of Port of Crabs: a wretched hive at the north of the country of Ruddlestone.

Cinnabar is also a powerful practicionner of Voodoo sorcery and a worshipper of Quezkari, the evil Voodoo deity. He works in cohort with Quezkari's high-priest Ramatu and his fanatical devouts, and harvests the souls of all his victims as an offering to his idol, in exchange for immortality.

Ten years before the start of the story, Cinnabar's pirates attacked and ransaked Clam Beach, hometown to the player character and killed most of its population, including the player's father and brother. After his mother's death, the player character became sailor and spend mst of his or her free time learning about Cinnabar and Pirates of the Black Skull, hoping to one day get revenge.

Quezkari
The idol worshipped by Cinnabar and the Pirates of the Black Skull, Quezkari is a highly powerful demonic spirit of Death and Dark Magic, who answers to the evil Goddess of Sorcery Shekka. He is of demi god status, he controls Voodoo sorcery and is described as a manifestation of the souls of his worshipper's victims, hinting that he needs to constantly feed on souls to sustain himself. He is on more or less equal footing with the Demon Princes of Titan, but hs influence seems much less expanded. During the First Battle, which opposed the Gods of Titan and the Demons Gods before Time came to the world, he and Shekka fought against Hamaskis and were defeated, but he and the other evil deities were compelled into obedience by the Gods instead of being banished to the Void.

Trivia

 * Bloodbones was released in 2006, which might lead readers to believe that Cinnabar is inspired by Hector Barbossa and Davy Jones from Pirates of the Caribbean. However, both stories are in fact based on the 1988 novel On Stranger Tides. Bloodbones author Jonathan Greed had worked on it since 1996 but could only release it after the Fighting Fantasy series was un-cancelled.
 * Cinnabar also shares similarities with LeChuck from Monkey Island, also inspired from On Stranger Tides.
 * Cinnabar's page from Titannica the Fighting Fantasy wiki : http://fightingfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Cinnabar