This game sounds intriguing...
Is Christopher Raven the only character you are allowed to play?
If more, then how many different RPG characters will it allow?
Will there be multiple story lines within the Raven story line or will there be other available story lines outside the main Scottish boy escaping the famine ruined by pirates?
If so, will they be able to play under other factions?
If so, how many factions will there be? - and will they be historically believeable/feasible?
Will it support distributive play with multiple players online in the same game?
Why Scottish? There were WAY more Irish pirates historically - they had way more of a bone to pick (motivation) and a few made good ascending to some prominent positions historically. The Civil War poured into Ireland in a bad way. Look at bloody Drogheda. Cromwell in Ireland is still bitterly remembered to this day. Fiction is full of good examples: Peter Blood was an Irish surgeon caught taking care of rebels.
FROM Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Drogheda "Parliamentary Colonel Axtell, "offered to spare the lives of the governor and the 200 men with him if they surrendered on the promise of their lives, which they did".[27] According to Axtell, the disarmed men were then taken to a windmill and killed about an hour after they had surrendered.[27] Arthur Aston was reportedly beaten to death with his own wooden leg which the New Model Army soldiers believed had gold hidden in it.[28] Cromwell wrote of the incident, "our men getting up to them, were ordered by me to put them all to the sword".[26] Another group of about 80 Royalist soldiers sought refuge in St Peter's church at the northern end of Drogheda. Parliamentarian soldiers led by John Hewson, on Cromwell's orders, set fire to the Church.[23] Some 30 of the defenders were burned to death in the fire and 50 more were killed outside when they fled the flames.[29] Drogheda from the south. In the foreground is the river Boyne, which the defenders fled over. Centre is St Peter's Church where around 80 Royalists soldiers were killed in the sack of the town.The final major concentration of Royalist soldiers was 200 men, who had been stationed in two towers. They stayed in the towers during the sack of the town but surrendered the following day, September 12. All of the officers and one in every ten ordinary soldiers were killed by being clubbed to death The rest were deported to Barbados.[30] The heads of 16 Royalist officers were cut off and sent to Dublin, where they were stuck on pikes on the approach roads.[31] Any Catholic clergy found within the town were killed by being clubbed to death or, "knocked on the head", as Cromwell put it,[32] including two who were executed the following day." Contemporary clergy estimates of the civilains massacred are figured at about 4,000.
Or is it that this is a purely - revenge against pirates - story? There are a couple of historical exceptions. William Kidd was a born in Scotland, but he never considered himself a pirate even up until his death emphatically denying it. ****Thagarr, there's a good story for the site Mate...they found some documents a few years back that would have exonerated him....so he was innocent???
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