| Role/Occupation Pirate |
| Total Entries 30 |
| Representative Corsair Queen (Quality) |
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Dashing villains who lived free on the open sea, with a parrot on their shoulder, a cutlass in their hand and a chest full o’ gold. Fond o’ drinking and prone ta fights, out to live “a short life and a merry one.” The pirates we know and love were greatly influenced by those of Peter Pan and Treasure Island. They tend to come in two varieties… Marauding Brutes [and] Roguish Scoundrels… In “Real Life”, this type of pirate tended to overlap with Privateers (people commissioned by a government during wartime to capture enemy vessels or otherwise cause problems for enemy ships, and paid with the prizes they took). The Spanish viewed Sir Francis Drake as a pirate, and the British, John Paul Jones… Many fictional pirates demonstrate some principles by preying only on their nation’s enemies, or only the Evil Overlord’s, etc., despite the lack of official letters of marque. Both types are among “The Oldest Ones in the Book”, and can, indeed, be found in the same works. In fact, piracy is a very old tradition that dates back to the Late Bronze Age in the form of the Sea Peoples, a confederation of raiders from Europe and the Middle East that frequently attacked Ancient Egypt… ~ Pirate – TV Tropes
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