The Beginning Of A LegendEdit
Mark Ironflint was born, some time on Tortuga. His father was a famous French Privateer named William, But the family had to separate cause Will was wanted by spain badly. Mark and his Mother fled to Tortuga and they lived there in the mountains for sometime. Mark's mother died at the age of 48 from getting bite by a snake. Mark was only 6 at the time and realized he was all alone and he was very sad. Mark looked around he did not know how to start a fire to eat the food his father left them with. Mark being upset he desides to go some wheres and falls alseep. Mark woke up and he was in a house, Mark heard two people argueing about him staying there. A person knocks on the door and Mark is taken to the guy at the door. The man was named Earl, Earl raised Mark as his own and taught Mark the basics of magic. One day Earl said to Mark, That he needed to go some where, Earl gave Mark a Gift. Earl Said to Mark, That He will age to his peak in health then he will not age nor die and live till the end of Time. I will call for you one day and when i do come. Mark Said okay and Earl vanished. Mark later on ended up as a repairman on a light frigate hoping to earn money to survive under harsh taxes placed by the East India Trading Company.
England
Mark washed up on shore after the ship he was on sunk and wanderd bout Port Royal. Mark found a rotten ship hull and lived there till the hurricane season was gone. Mark met this guy named Jack Pondcutter who helped Mark out. Mark joined Jack's crew and sailed as a English privateer. Later on Jack took Mark to Plymouth England and sold goods they stole. Afterward his friend Jack dissapperared. Mark was looking around the bay and joined the Navy under the command of Sir Francis Drake as a gunner for the fleet.
Trip Round Da World
On the 15th of November 1577 the fleet left Plymouth but they ended up takeing refuge in Falmouth, Cornwall, then returned to Plymouth for repair. After this delay, they set sail again on the 13th of December, aboard the Pelican, with four other ships and 164 men. Then soon Drake added a sixth ship, Mary also called the Santa Maria, a ship that had been captured off of Africa near the Cape Verde Islands but was later burned due to rotten timbers. [1]The fleet suffered great attrition; Drake scuttled both the Christopher and the flyboat Swan due to loss of men on the Atlantic crossing. They made landfall at the gloomy bay of San Julian. Ferdinand Magellan had called there half a century earlier. The Fleet decided to remain the winter in San Julian before attempting the Strait of Magellan. The three remaining ships of his convoy departed for the Magellan Strait at the southern tip of South America. In September 1578 they made it to the Pacific, but violent storms destroyed one of the three ships in the strait and caused another to return to England, leaving only the Golden Hind. After this passage, the "Golden Hind" was pushed south and discovered an island which was called Elizabeth Island. The Golden Hind sailed north along the Pacific coast of South America, attacking Spanish ports. Later they sacked the port of Valparaíso further north in Chile where they also captured a ship full of Chilean wine. Near Lima, They then captured a Spanish ship with 25,000 pesos of Peruvian gold. Drake also discovered news of another ship, Nuestra Señora de la Concepción which was sailing west towards Manila. Drake ordered to give chase and eventually captured the treasure ship, which proved their most profitable capture. Aboard Nuestra Señora de la Concepción, 80 lb of gold, a golden crucifix, jewels, 13 chests full of royals of plate and 26 tons of silver was found.
On 17 June 1579, The Fleet landed somewhere north of Spain's northern-most claim at Point Loma. They found a good port, landed, repaired and restocked the vessels, then stayed for a time, keeping friendly relations with the natives. Drake then claimed the land in the name of the Holy Trinity for the English Crown as called Nova Albion. The precise location of the port was carefully guarded to keep it secret from the Spaniards. Drake ordered the fleet to head westward across the Pacific, and a few months later they reached Moluccas, a group of islands in the south west Pacific. While there, Golden Hind became caught on a reef and was almost lost. After the sailors waited three days for expedient tides and dumped cargo, they freed the barque and eventually rounded the Cape of Good Hope, and reached Sierra Leone by 22 July 1580. On 26 September, the Golden Hind sailed into Plymouth with the 59 remaining crew aboard, along with a rich cargo of spices and captured Spanish treasures. The Queen's half-share of the cargo surpassed the rest of the crown's income for that entire year. Drake was hailed as the first Englishman to circumnavigate the Earth. The Queen then ordered all written accounts of the voyage to be considered classified information, and its participants sworn to silence on pain of death for she intended to keep Drake's activities away from the eyes of rival Spain.
Nate Raidhawk
Mark was running around in Isla de la Tormenta and saw a friend old friend named Johnny Goldtimbers. Johnny said to Mark Well a familar face, How are ya Mark? Mark and Johnny talked some and became friends. Mark went and hung around with Johnny some more who was on driftwood island. This guy named Captain leon walked up to him and said, JOIN MY GUILD Mark said, GO AWAY! Mark turned and saw Johnny rideing a crab and this pirate named Nate Raidhawk standing by a tree fliping a coin. So Mark decided to leave. Later that day, Mark was hanging around with Nathaniel (a friend of his ) Who was talking to his friend Nate Raidhawk. Mark said to Nate, I saw you today hanging around with Johnny. Nate said, yeah . Mark and Nate became really good friends after that. Mark helped Nate around the time the conquest to Navermo took place. Mark eventually joined his friend's Nate's guild El bandidos. Mark then joined Nate's new guild, Freedom Co., and served as Vice President of the company. Not long after Mark joined Freedom, he traveled back in time to see if his beard distorts time after all it distorts space!