It has been some two score years since the last officiated document of the pirate Lafitte was put to paper by the Holy See.  Usually, there is little need to update these records.  Criminals of such a conventional sort such as pirate rarely last long enough or develop significantly to require further mediation.  Entities of such power that they do not simply die or retire are not recorded here and, even more so, do not tend to change significantly over time.  This has not proven true for Lafitte.

There is, naturally, a second reason for the lapse in records in regards to Lafitte.  For some time after the fall of the dead god it was felt to be wrong to speak of one of the pinnacle assets in said god's downfall as a criminal.  However, in the nearly two decades since that event she has not reformed and good will can only stretch so far.  It is necessary that the Holy See and the governments of the world again hunt this rover.

Luckily, her celebrity has limited the amount of blood she has spilled.  Few crews will depose her and many of her victims even brag when she robs their cargo, turning it into quick advertising money.  Some have responded to her robberies by simply offering her more goods but she is scornful of this; she wants to be a pirate.  They allowed her to play her game while letting her have what she wanted but this gnawed at her and she soon stepped up her viciousness, bringing back the fear she used to command by killing even when surrender was given.  After some time of this appalling behavior enough was enough.

There may be a third excuse for our laxness on Lafitte, too.  With her now heroic status and the seeming war she was holding against her once ally, now undead opponent Shalaka we had hoped to turn her to a pirate hunter.  Many veteran pirates take this path when they see the inevitable end of their lives approaching and she seemed to be moving in this direction.  Sadly, her feud with Shalaka is not one of justice at all but a personal feud.

This is not about the fall of the dead god or its aftermath, though, and so we should move on.  This does relate to the discovery of the strange new continent, however, and so a brief is in order.

The new continent remains mysterious, especially as it is inaccessible by any of the magical means such long distance travel or communication would normally be achieved.  Travel is long and colonization is difficult.  The natives are not as weak as thought at first and they are largely unhappy with the intrusion of other governments, though not always of individuals.  Oddly, this has made pirates more successful than nations in establishing themselves in this new world.

The people of this new world are, to a person, some form of animal crossed with a man.  This is, of course, already familiar in the form of monsters.  They appear to be different from this, however, but this is no area on which I am an expert.  Suffice it to say for now that no race of monsters has accomplished the sort of society these people, termed collectively as "the Chosen", have managed.  This may be explained handily by the presence of their living gods, though.

The new world is important here both because of the aid Lafitte has found among their pirates and privateers, and for the origin of her son.  The child, of course, is not really hers.  She encountered, while at port, an orphan child and made an uncharacteristic decision.  She decided to take them on.  Not merely as a member of her crew but to raise them with the goal of the child eventually replacing her, the way she replaced her own adoptive father.  While such an act of charity is bizarre from Lafitte it is not altogether without reason.  She is getting rather old.  While age is less important to lizardfolk than humans she still must realize her age is climbing and her luck may be running out.  For the same reasons a sane person would want a child she desires an heir.  This is, of course, purely speculation.

The child in question was named Mikhu, though he is often referred to as Lafitte the Younger while he is still in training.  He was around six to eight when adopted and now is a young man.  In appearance he seems to be a squirrel with black fur.  He is, reportedly, a bit fat.  Lafitte's success and hedonism has clearly rubbed off on the boy and allowed him to let himself go.  He is still, by all accounts, ruthless and dangerous, though.  His portliness belies a worthy adversary.

Mikhu has not done particularly much in his life to draw great attention.  He has taken part in boarding actions and raids but he has not performed astonishing feats during them, at least not that we have reports of.  He does not seem to be nearly as cold hearted as Lafitte but it does seem he wants to be and pushes himself to be a worse person than he is, at times, and has committed plenty of atrocities.  Like most criminals he attempts to justify these by casting blame toward countries, business and such for greater crimes he is punishing them for.  He is flamboyant and effeminate,  an affectation that would surely have been quite a problem for him were not Lafitte protecting him from the other freebooters.

He appears to be a true hedonist, beyond his portliness, as well.  Reports suggest that he and Lafitte may have a sexual relationship and it has been reported that he has engaged in sexual activity with men, woman, a number of races, and some worse things as well.  He seems to not so much have a sexual preference as an attraction to novelty and uniqueness.  With tales and insults working as they do we cannot really know what is true; reports of bestiality, murdering partners, sex with monsters and children, there is simply no way to know which are true and which are not.  It is merely certain that he is a pervert.  Where there not truth beneath these rumors the rumors would not spring up at all.
Within a few years of Mikhu's adoption Lafitte acquired another notable crew member: Molly.  In the case of Molly we have a few more specifics and a good deal more that is unknown.  The girl seems to have been sold as a slave.  She was an infant when sold and so is several years Mikhu's junior but still by far the closest person to his age aboard Lafitte's ship.  She is an odd creature, like a man but similar to an animal in some ways.  Reports from sailors identify her with a monkey, though that creature is a far off animal from distant lands, sometimes carried in trade but few have ever seen one at all.  As such, I cannot say.

It appears that Lafitte had once seen a monkey at port and was absolutely fascinated by it.  She harbored a desire for a monkey pet for ages but apparently just never ran into one, nor had any reason to travel to where they live; such a trip is costly, dangerous and wasteful.  It was always just a childish dream she kept secret.  When she found the infant monkey like creature for sale she couldn't pass up the opportunity and purchased it.  She must have realized at the time that it was a sentient creature but, all the same, she kept it as a pet.  This may not be too bad a thing, though; reports are that the girl was meant for a sex slave.

As the pet, named Molly, grew she began to show her intelligence quickly.  Lafitte apparently still thought of her as a very smart pet and raised her based on the sort of system of rewards and punishments that one would use with a pet.  The girl grew to be faithful and obedient but lacked the personal determination to escape or determine her own path.  She even wore a collar that she never removes.  This continued even after she began acting as a raider along with the regular crew; the idea that a real person could not be a pet animal just doesn't make sense to Lafitte.

Molly, by some reports, also seems to be not precisely a girl.  Again, these may be insults.  She has been reported to be a crossdresser and also a hermaphrodite.  Reports have also indicated that her race is one of the far east, mentioned in the oft doubted reports of ancient explorers.  In particularly, one of these explorers mentioned a race of mountain forest dwellers whom had three different genders, one being part man and part woman.  There is little more information to go on but this may contain the secret answer to this particular riddle.

As for Mikhu, Molly was his only real friend as he grew up.  Younger than him but close enough to still be children together.  He certainly developed a close bond with her and, while he definitely sees her as a sister, he has also begun a sexual relationship with her.  He still reportedly practices his various other perversions as well but the two seem to have an actual relationship.  This is all the more odd in that Lafitte seems to have passed either full or partial ownership of her to Mikhu and he does, in fact, often treat her as a pet.  Being him, it is plausible that he treats her as a sister, lover and pet all at the same time.

As Lafitte has grown her ship into a fleet, and in that she seems to be establishing her own pirate empire to rival Shalaka's, it is important to keep an eye on these two as they will likely be the future leaders of this band that we must be aware of.  Currently, both work as topsmen aboard Lafitte's ship and both have proven to be able combatants.  Neither has shown any magical affinity but this cannot be certain.

Returning to Lafitte, her colony of Barataria, popularly called Libertalia by pirates, has become a powerful local.  As of this writing it is suggested that, for the time being, this colony not be assaulted as it is being built to combat Shalaka's own island fortress.  Of course, after this is accomplished the island will merely be a pirate nation and should treated as such.  It is only an ally of convenience.  Lafitte operates the island in loose form, providing a safe port for any pirates to land, and in turn all there are to pay a small part of their hold to the island's upkeep and to defend the island from attack.  The primary crime is to deal with Shalaka.  How this gambit will work out is a mystery; Shalaka, since becoming a lich, has raised massive crews of undead pirates but has also remained an ally to any living pirates willing fight for her.  Between those still in need or her safe port and the massive hoards of undead under her command she is in no way vulnerable.

This is the extent of new knowledge on the pirate Lafitte's history of criminal activity.