Board Thread:Lore Texts/@comment-34241117-20181024180125


 * 1) title:Adventure on the Seas Part I


 * 1) author:Burn the Corsair


 * 1) types:umbar, corsair_coasts, sea ruins if possible

I have made up my mind. I am a corsair, but I have not the endless hate and tireless anger of the others. I don't wish to lay ruin upon Gondor. I don't care about them at all! Why must we push our nose into lands which bother us not? Anyways, I took the men who feel the same way with me, and we all decided this would be the best for us all. We are going away, to the open wide ocean, which cares not about the wars of our land.

We have brought many provisions and stocked a fat ship full of our cargo. Forty men we number in all. Our clothes, weapons and tools we brought with us, along with five loads of dry, unspoiling cakes, smoked meats, salted pork, dried vegetables, and a small chest of dates. We have also seeds for farming if ever we find what we look for.

And so, we set off on our long voyage, hopefully never to return. Leaving behind us all the pains and anger of our peoples and the world. A nervous excitement is upon us all, and I feel cleansed almost. Like the waves beneath us are washing away all our previous lives. We will try to find an island, for the ocean is peppered with them. On it we will live, for many of us know how to farm, and building materials we have with us. We will live on it happily, going out to sea when we wish. I have brought a compass with me, just in case. If ever we might go back, and tell the others about what we have found, if anything.

Home behind, the ocean ahead, this way us the path has led, and long we will sail, long we will go, farthest away, carried away by the flow. To lands unspoiled, to mysteries long gone we will sail. Past the moon and with the sun we will go.  