- Maxine, his first partner, describes him as "a reasonable man who wants to make the sea safer by sinking one ship at a time."[break]
- his secret goal is to turn their local maritime academy into the best one[break]
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[attr="class","chartl-item"]1979 Born, in a medium-sized fortified city, as Andreas de Baert, the second son of a ship-owners and shipwrights' family in the middle of a financial struggle after a fire reduced their shipyard to ashes.
[attr="class","chartl-item"]1991 After his father and his aunt are declared missing at sea, his mother asks her three children to promise they won't ever sail. As she finds herself managing the family business, she asks for her parents and in-laws' support to raise the siblings.
[attr="class","chartl-item"]1992 Andreas goes fishing on a skiff with two friends, breaking the promise made to his mother. She discovers the truth two weeks later and sends him to a boarding school. Andreas visits his family during the holidays.
[attr="class","chartl-item"]1993 Following the manifestation of his familiar, he writes several letters, imploring his mother to let him come home. She agrees, but he can only stay for a year.
[attr="class","chartl-item"]1997 At 18, he has no idea about his future and picks Geography as a major, thinking a focus on cartography could be fun. However, he decides to listen to his heart, and after two years, goes back to his hometown and joins the maritime academy.
[attr="class","chartl-item"]2003 Working as a coast guard, especially while being a new recruit, leaves little time and room for romance, but his older brother introduces him to a friend, Maxine Prins. It will take several dates to tone down the disastrous memories of the first one.
[attr="class","chartl-item"]2004 During a night patrol, smugglers ambush their ship and attack them. Being one of the few survivors and seeing the grief of his colleagues' families push him into joining Cerberus. At the end of the year, as Maxine and Andreas welcome their newborn, they realize their family life may not be what they expected. She doesn't want to move to Delphi, and Andreas goes back and forth between their hometown and Delphi.
[attr="class","chartl-item"]2005 Networking isn't easy without a sponsor or a mentor, and Andreas finds himself owning favors to Simone van Ryen, a scientist and sea enthusiast from a wealthy family.
[attr="class","chartl-item"]2009 At 30 years old, Andreas reaches the rank of sentinel and joins Cipher Corp, hoping to gain more knowledge and meet people who could be interested in maritime security and naval maintenance. While he strives for his goals, the fights with Maxine multiply. Finally, they settle for an arrangement: he'll spend six months in Delphi and the other six months in their hometown.
[attr="class","chartl-item"]2012 Frustration builds up, and Andreas mentions how things aren't working during a family lunch. His siblings convince him to use the family's business and his connections to the maritime academy to come up with a project: Le Revenant. The training ship will have three missions: protecting the small ships, fighting the smugglers, and welcoming the cipher corps' engineers with an interest in the sea.
[attr="class","chartl-item"]2016 Le Revenant comes to life after four years; it takes four years for Andreas and Maxine to mention the word "separation." She wants a quiet life with her family; he wants to make a change. Despite that, their relationship ends peacefully. They remain friends and never badmouth each other. Meanwhile, Andreas retires from his duties with Cipher Corps to create the perfect training program. He's helped by sailors, coast guards, and instructors in this task.
[attr="class","chartl-item"]2018 At 39, Andreas reaches the rank of Acolyte. He also meets his partner, Laurens Hafner, during a trip. The quick engagement and marriage surprise everyone, and Andreas' family warn him. "You were lonely. He said the right words."
[attr="class","chartl-item"]2019 It turns out Laurens' mask cracks. The sweet words become chains and weapons, and nothing contains his real personality anymore. Thankfully, he can focus on other things: his job as a special advisor at the maritime academy, finding new funds to build a second training ship, Polydeuces, and a database to identify the smugglers and their ships.
[attr="class","chartl-item"]2021 After filing the papers for divorce, he sells his flat in Delphi and only stays at trusted friends' places when he needs or wants to visit the city.
[attr="class","chartl-item"]2022 Andreas hasn't stepped foot in Delphi in four months. Laurens sends him letters; he sends the divorce papers as a reply. Every time. But life's good. He has rum, a pile of crossword puzzle books, and from time to time, he works with the cartography club of the maritime academy.
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