The Year of Three Sea Lords

Political event

In just a year three different captains succeeded Sea Lora Marquetta in a series of political events.

The Sea Lords up through Marquetta were blessed with long reigns. (Some on the continent suggested they were improbably long, considering that pirates founded Freeport.) It was all the more shocking, therefore, when Freeport saw three new Sea Lords in the year after Marquetta’s death. The first, Rowland Furrock, decided to celebrate his elevation by participating in the Great Hunt a mere month after becoming Sea Lord; he was mauled to death by a giant boar. The second, Giles Wymer, was Sea Lord for six months until he fell victim to poison at a feast in his honor. The circumstances around his poisoning are still a mystery.   The third man, Miles Caxton, destined to be Marquetta’s true successor, took power after Giles’ named heir fled the city rather than risking death as the Sea Lord.