Andan Cuyucha (pronounced AN-dan COY-oo-cha) was a Meklovian tengu pirate. Cuyucha's exploits made him famous in his time, before he disappeared after sailing west from Meklaw in Y9777*. Cuyucha was later encountered, still alive, by a group of adventurers in the Soul's End Islands in Y9976*.
Between Y9760* and Y9777*, Cuyucha made his base in Raychuara, from which he struck at ships across the Sea of Khoros and the Chaska Sea. Though tales vary and are almost certainly exaggerated, many tengu will claim Cuyucha had a fleet of over two hundred ships under his control at his height. Cuyucha vanished in Y9777*, heading west with a small number of his ships. He has since become a folklore hero to many tengu, and some occasionally even set off after him, never to return.
A group of adventurers aboard the Apophis, then the ship of Rocco "Three Eye", found Cuyucha and some of his crew still alive centuries later in Y9976*, living on an outpost in the Souls' End Islands. Cuyucha had remained alive by consuming the blood of the demon lord Huzrotho, who was entombed beneath an island in the archipelego. The pirate recruited the adventurers to help him in regaining access to the demon's blood, as the island had been taken by a group of mutineers turned cultists. Though their mission was successful, in the end Cuyucha died to the hands of one of the adventurers.
Cuyucha had very colorful plumage for a tengu, mostly red with smaller bits of blue and yellow. By Y9976* he had lost his left leg, and used a peg leg shaped into a bird's foot as a replacement.
Cuyucha's ship, the Palaimon sunk in the Soul's End Islands sometime prior to Y9976*.