Captain Fogg – Phileas Fogg
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Captain_Fogg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phileas_Fogg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Around_the_World_in_Eighty_Days
Captain Fogg is the captain of the Marleybonian Airship that crashes into The Floating Land. He needs the wizard’s help clearing out some of the Rubble Rousers.
Phileas Fogg is the protagonist in the 1872 Jules Verne novel Around the World in Eighty Days. Inspirations for the character were the American entrepreneur George Francis Train and American writer and adventurer William Perry Fogg.
Fogg is a man of independent means and is a gentleman who is “exact”, as in has a perfect and a routine life right down to the number of steps he walks to the temperature of his shaving water. Having fired a servant for the latter, he hires Jean Passepartout as a new servant. Fogg makes a wager of £20,000 (£2.4 million in 2022) with members of London’s Reform Club that he can circumnavigate the world in 80 days or less. He sets out with his French servant Jean Passepartout to win the wager, unaware that he is being followed by a detective named Fix, who suspects Fogg of having robbed the Bank of England. Fix spends the first half of the book trying to delay Fogg’s journey to keep him in British territory, However, after Fogg reaches America, Fix helps Fogg complete his bet in order to get him back to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, where he will be under British jurisdiction and Fix can arrest him (while still suspicious that Fogg will run off and go into hiding somewhere on the journey).
Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is an adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in French in 1872. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a wager of £20,000 set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne’s most acclaimed works.
In 2004, a film was made, loosely based on the book, starring Steve Coogan and Jackie Chan in the roles of Fogg and Passepartout respectively. In 2021 a television adaptation starring David Tennant as Fogg was produced.
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