Francis Carnegie

Early life
Francis Carnegie was born on 9 June 1640, in the attic of the Captain's Daughter, a pub in Port Haven, Pandora, Acronia; and a Carnegie family hideout. Born two years into the Third Pirate War, Carnegie was born in tumultuous circumstances, as his family's home territory on the Carnegie Islands was on the verge of compromise at the hands of the Imperial Acronian Navy. In view of this, the head of the family, Julian Carnegie, felt it necessary to send Mary, his heavily pregnant wife, to Pandora, in order to seek refuge with the Wressleville Crimsons, a Port Haven-based pirate gang with whom the Carnegies shared positive relations, instructing her to wait there until calmer times. Due to this, Francis Carnegie remains the only leader of the Carnegie family to date to have not been born on the Carnegie Islands – however, he was still eligible for leadership of the family as he still met the criterion of being born on the shores of the Carnegie Sea, due to Port Haven's geographical situation southeast of Cape Hope.

Introduction to the cane flute
Studying under the tutelage of noted Chaeyoungi warrior monk and master of the martial arts Tou Bing (alternatively transliterated Tobin), Carnegie was introduced to the cane flute, a heralded piece of ancient weaponry uniquely used by select members of the Erlin Monastery. Carnegie became fixated with the weapon upon discovering its existence, and incessantly begged the monks to allow him to try to use it for weeks before they reluctantly obliged him. Despite having no prior knowledge of the cane flute, let alone the intricacies of properly using one, Carnegie was almost immediately able to wield the cane flute with impressive aptitude in sparring matches, reportedly defeating a fellow monk with a fully mastered Hidden Trance technique (呆暗技术, Dai'An Technique), incorporating and adapting his knowledge of the Vesperian flute to great effect.