*Yo-Ho-Ho, And A Bottle Of Rum!* (Black Sails, Discoverer, Original Americas, Lady Ælfhild Grace Killigrew.) *

The world in which you will play tizt no quite like our own. Certain events have transpired differently here than they did in our own world, and things have changed as a result.

First, Lief Ericson never made it past Greenland. In a stormy squall in the North Atlantic, his ship was caught between two monstrous waves, both heavy with sea ice, and crushed like an egg.

Second, three groups of pirates, each of a different faith and each of a different nation, landed simultaneously on the Azores in 1429 and found each other's settlements later the same year. They came together in conference and from that discussion was born The Court Of The Brethren, a pirate republic which acknowledges no outside authority and accepts no one universal faith: Catholic, Jew, Muslim, and Protestant are all free to walk the streets of Shipwreck and try to convert each other to their own faith, or sect of the faith. Now it is 1492, and thou art about to embark on a truly momentous journey...

You confirm your choices and suddenly black-out, the game is about to begin, and for good or ill, you will sink or swim as part of this new world...