Talk:Libertalia/@comment-26824238-20151112163901

I'll also place this here, since I don't want to disrupt the body of the text with super OOC information:

Libertalia is an actual, real-world concept. The city is believed to be a fictional representation of what pirates in the Caribbean yearned for above all else: the freedom to do as they pleased. Libertalia was first mentioned in A History of Pyrates, an 18th century document that is still considered half-fiction and half-truth. Still, the life of Western pirates wasn't the most well documented phenomenon -- most pirates didn't really bother keeping journals about their travels. Their lives, as they saw it, were short but sweet. Most sources on piracy, in specific Western piracy during the 1600s and 1700s CE, comes from government documents and fictional representations that may be based in some truth or reality. In short, my intent was to emulate these unique styles of maritime confederation, hydrarchy (or martime hierarchy), and the proposed concepts of personal freedom as pursued by pirates in the Western world.