His only hope was to find the restorative waters of the fabled Fountain of Youth. In his later life, Blackbeard lived under the shadow of a prophesied death at the hands of a one-legged man named Hector Barbossa, predicted by his zombie Quartermaster. Through unknown circumstances, Blackbeard would have reunited with his beloved daughter Angelica, who served as his first mate aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge. He would turn every captured vessel into individual ships in bottles and kept each as a prize for his collection. Blackbeard also had supernatural powers, having dabbled in the Black Arts and wielded a sword embedded with one of the three sapphires of Triton, which he used to control ships. He resurrected some of the men he killed into obedient zombie officers. Blackbeard was known to be incredibly cruel to his own crew, more so than the people he held captive, and occasionally murdered men just so they could remember who he was. His best known vessel was his flagship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, a fearsome frigate festooned with the bones of his victims and spits Greek fire from its bow to incinerate enemy ships or the occasional crew member fallen out of favor. He became a renowned pirate, his cognomen derived from his thick black beard and fearsome appearance. Originally an Englishman who began his career as one of the many privateers dispensed by King George to raid enemy ships during war, it wasn't until he struck out as a free agent that his true legend was born. Blackbeard's many exploits became the stuff of various myths and legends of pirate lore, including the legend of being beheaded by Royal Marines during the battle of Ocracoke Inlet in 1718. The blackest soul and the darkest heart of any pirate who ever lived, striking fear into the bravest of sailors, Blackbeard was a name uttered in terror by all who sail the sea, or any unfortunate enough to encounter him on dry land. " If I don't kill a man every now and then, they forget who I am." ―Blackbeard to Angelica Įdward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, was a notorious pirate who operated in the West Indies throughout the 18th century, specifically during the 1750s.
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