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* DistressedDamsel: Repeatedly. Was captured by Cazalla as a trophy of his conquest, gets kidnapped by the Caribs, and the kraken ambushes her cabin. Hunter saves her every single time.
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* DistressedDamsel: DamselInDistress: Repeatedly. Was captured by Cazalla as a trophy of his conquest, gets kidnapped by the Caribs, and the kraken ambushes her cabin. Hunter saves her every single time.
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* TheArcher: He uses a crossbow.
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The "sea artist", regarded as the best sailor in the Caribbean, he is hired by Hunter as the steerer to his ship, the Cassandra. Is also a Doctor in Port Royal, and his skills repeatedly saves the crew.
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* MySiblingWillLiveThroughMe: Started her male life, because she had to be disguised as her dead brother, lest her mothers philandery would be exposed.
* ShowSomeLeg: The distraction of the spaniards, mentioned below.
* ShowSomeLeg: The distraction of the spaniards, mentioned below.
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* CharacterDeath: She is hanged in Charleston port after being captured as a pirate some thirty-five years after Sanson's death.
* MySiblingWillLiveThroughMe: Started her male life, because she had to be disguised as her dead brother, lest hermothers philandery mother's philandering would be exposed.
* ShowSomeLeg: The distraction of thespaniards, Spaniards, mentioned below.
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Also known as Black Eye, or the Jew, Don Diego is an old, Spanish gunpowder expert, living in Port Royal. His skills in gunpowder, makes him useful for Hunters expedition.
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Also known as Black Eye, or the Jew, Don Diego is an old, Spanish gunpowder expert, living in Port Royal. His skills in gunpowder, makes gunpowder make him useful for Hunters expedition.
* AlmightyJanitor: On top of his gunpowder expertise, he is among the more learned of the cast, being the first to realize that the shipment of silver they have looted from Cazalla's galleons has been tainted with "worthless" platinum.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: He outlives most of the cast, including Hunter himself—but dies in the earthquake that razes Port Royal forever.
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* TheBigGuy: He's the most physically intimidating pirate in Hunter's crew.
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* TheBigGuy: He's the most physically intimidating pirate in Hunter's crew. [[spoiler:It takes getting trampled by a bull to kill him, and then only in the epilogue,]]
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* BigGood: In the context of the novel, bu bankroll gin the privateers. That being said, if he isn't an outright CorruptPolitician, he's certainly close to being one.
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* BigGood: In the context of the novel, bu bankroll gin by bankrolling the privateers. That being said, if he isn't an outright CorruptPolitician, he's certainly close to being one.one—he's known as "James the Tenth" for taking an additional ten percent of any privateering profits for himself, on top of the ten percent that goes to the king.
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* InsistentTerminology: Similar to Hunter, he takes disgust in the word pirate, while finding no problem with privateer.
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* InsistentTerminology: Similar to Hunter, he takes disgust in the word pirate, while finding no problem with privateer.privateers.
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* SurroundedByIdiots: His usual assistants, namely Hacklett and Commander Scott.
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* SurroundedByIdiots: His usual assistants, namely Hacklett and Commander Scott.
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The bureaucratic assistant of Almont, he is very loyal to the British crown, and takes it upon him to extort piracy and privateering form Port Royal, and turn it into a more respectable British town. However, despite these somewhat noble intentions, after Hunter's departure, he takes control of the town, imprisons Almont, and starts hanging privateers, stealing their treasures, and finally loses it when letting his wife get raped.
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The bureaucratic assistant of Almont, he is very loyal to the British crown, and takes it upon him to extort piracy and privateering form from Port Royal, and turn it into a more respectable British town. However, despite these somewhat noble intentions, after Hunter's departure, he takes control of the town, imprisons Almont, and starts hanging privateers, stealing their treasures, and finally loses it when letting his wife get raped.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Hardly anyone knows her name at the start of the book. By the epilogue, she's become one of the most famous Caribbean courtesans in all of Europe—and her own words point to living a life of "delicious notoriety" before her death.
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* ReallyGetsAround: Emily often cheats on her husband, and not just with a single lover.
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* ReallyGetsAround: Emily often cheats on her husband, and not just with a single lover.
lover. Sir James suspects King Charles has had his way with her enough that this is why her husband has been foisted on him in the first place.
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* YankTheDogsChain: After he's sentenced to hang for his failed coup d'état with Hacklett, he pens a full confession to try and get his sentence commuted. Instead, he's shot and killed in his cell.
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* BuxomIsBetter: She calls her breasts her best feature and is upset that Cazalla brands them and she’ll have to keep them covered in the future.
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* WeaponOfChoice: He always uses a crossbow.
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* AnAxToGrind: How he decides to kill the kraken.
* AntiHero: Bordering on VillainProtagonist. His only really good attributes is that he has a sense of honor, is loyal to his men, and that his adversaries--Cazalla, and then later the likes of a CannibalClan and [[spoiler: Hacklett]]--are ultimately even ''worse.''
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* GeniusBruiser: His education.
* HandsomeLech: See TheCasanova.
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* [[spoiler: DroppedABridgeOnHim: A year after the book, he is killed in a storm.]]
* TheLancer: Though he could go as TheSmartGuy.
* TheRedBaron: The sea wizard, and the sea artist.
* TheLancer: Though he could go as TheSmartGuy.
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* MadeASlave: Was in the backstory.
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* [[spoiler: JustDesserts: the sharks, again.]]
* [[spoiler: JustDesserts: the sharks, again.]]
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* SixthRanger: Could count as this, since he does not serve any specific purpose to the Five-ManBand.
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* DirtyOldMan: Has, at age 55 mind you, a relationship with the 15 year old Anne Sharpe.
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* BigBad: Turns into this for the last several chapters.
* EvilIsSterile: A thoroughly unpleasant man who is sterile (r possibly even impotent) due to syphilis.
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* HangingJudge: When running the pirate trials.
* [[spoiler: KarmicDeath: Getting shot in the groin by his wife.]]
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Starts as this.
* ThePurge: Conducts this after taking over Port Royal, setting out to exterminate all privateers and his political enemies. Eventually including Hunter.
* [[spoiler: KarmicDeath: Getting shot in the groin by his wife.]]
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Starts as this.
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* TyrantTakesTheHelm: After imprisoning Almont.
* VillainousBreakdown: After realizing Emily is pregnant.
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* ShowSomeLeg: ''All. The. Time.''
* TheVamp: Heroic variety.
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* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: Shoots Hacklett in the groin, after he has allowed Commander Scott to rape her.]]
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* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler: Along with her uncle, killed in the Great London Fire.]]
* TheLoad: Never really does anything useful to the expedition, and constantly getting herself in danger, both at the hands of the Caribs, and at the tentacles of the kraken.
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* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler: Along [[spoiler:Along with her uncle, she's killed in the Great London Fire.]]
* TheLoad:Never She never really does anything useful to the expedition, and constantly getting herself in danger, both at the hands of the Caribs, and at the tentacles of the kraken.
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* TheDragon: To Hacklett.
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* TheStoner: Chews coca leaves.
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* TheDragon: To Cazalla
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* LeanAndMean: Described as tall and somewhat thin.
* TheQuietOne: Is never heard speaking.
* SatelliteCharacter: To some extent to Cazalla.
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* AwesomeMcCoolName: Admit it, you'd wish you were called Hunter.
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* BadAssBeard: He's arguably the toughest character in the book and has a prominent beard.
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* BadAssBeard: Given how well he does fighting.
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* ALoadOfBull: [[spoiler: He got killed by a bull in the epilogue, during the Henry Morgan attack on Panama in 1671.]]
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* YourCheatingHeart: She does not take her marriage vows seriously.
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* KnowWhenToFoldEm: When captured by Cazalla and faced with death by being eaten by rats, he frantically admits the truth about where they are headed too. Unfortunately for Trencher, Cazalla thinks he's lying and [[CruelAndUnusualDeath releases the rats.]]
* SacrificialLamb: He's one of the first introduced pirates but also dies quite early on.
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*CoolOldGuyCoolOldGuy: He's a bomb-making, one-eyed merchant who does a good job when briefly in command of the ship.
* DemolitionsExpert: He specializes in powder bombs.
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* FrenchJerkFrenchJerk: He's French and the most abrasive of Hunter's lieutenants.
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A minor local pirate, and the first man Hunter selects for his crew.
* {{Courier}}: He's the man Hunter sends to tell Diego, Enders, Lazue, Whisper, The Moor and Sanson that he'd like to see them to hire them or get information.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: When captured by Cazalla and faced with death by being eaten by rats, he frantically admits the truth about where they are headed too. Unfortunately for Trencher, Cazalla thinks he's lying and [[CruelAndUnusualDeath releases the rats.]]
* SacrificialLamb: He's one of the first introduced pirates but also dies quite early on.
A minor local pirate, and the first man Hunter selects for his crew.
* {{Courier}}: He's the man Hunter sends to tell Diego, Enders, Lazue, Whisper, The Moor and Sanson that he'd like to see them to hire them or get information.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: When captured by Cazalla and faced with death by being eaten by rats, he frantically admits the truth about where they are headed too. Unfortunately for Trencher, Cazalla thinks he's lying and [[CruelAndUnusualDeath releases the rats.]]
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* CoolOldGuy: In the context of the novel, he's a calculating guy whose supportive of Hunter.
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* BigBad: Of the ending.
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* ThePurge: Conducts this after taking over Port Royal, exterminating setting out to exterminate all privateers and his political enemies. Eventually including Hunter.
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* BrainlessBeauty: She's very pretty but not overly intelligent.
* BuxomIsBetter: She calls her breasts her best feature and is upset that Cazalla brands them and she’ll have to keep them covered in the future.
* BrainlessBeauty: She's very pretty but not overly intelligent.
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* DumbBlonde: Does A blonde-haired girl who does not know what a hurricane is, and does not understand the way Hunter governs the ship.
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GrandeDame: Sarah is younger and thinner than most examples of the trope but applies by carrying herself with exaggerated dignity in a situation where it isn't quite appropriate.
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{{Slimeball}}: He's an incompetent, corrupt, cruel man with some spooky predilections.
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The butler to Sir James Almont.
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* NumberTwo: To Almont.
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[[folder: Cassandra Crew]]
The crew of Hunters expedition, and his privateer, the Cassandra.
!!Charles Hunter:
The main protagonist of the book, Charles Hunter is regarded as one of the best privateers in Jamaica. In spite of his personality and attitude, he has a classical education, and is inheritantly BadAss.
* AwesomeMcCoolName: Admit it, you'd wish you were called Hunter.
* AnAxToGrind: How to kill the kraken.
* {{Anti-Hero}}: Bordering on VillainProtagonist. His only really good attributes is that he has honor to his men, and that Cazalla is even worse.
* BadAss
** BadAssBeard
* BrilliantButLazy: Actually educated at Harvard, but fails to see the use of knowing classical mathematics, in practical use.
* TheCaptain
* TheCasanova
* GeniusBruiser: His education.
* HandsomeLech
* TheHero
* {{Privateer}}
* YouKilledMyFather: Cazalla killed his brother, but he mostly OnlyInItForTheMoney.
!!Enders:
The "sea artist", regarded as the best sailor in the Caribbean, he is hired by Hunter as the steerer to his ship, the Cassandra. Is also a Doctor in Port Royal, and his skills repeatedly saves the crew.
* BadAss
* DeadlyDoctor: The only one in Port Royal who isn't one.
* [[spoiler: DroppedABridgeOnHim: A year after the book, he is killed in a storm.]]
* TheLancer: Though he could go as TheSmartGuy.
* TheRedBaron: The sea wizard, and the sea artist.
!!Lazue:
A corruption of the name Les Yeux, Lazue is a woman, having lived most of her life disguised as a man, and despite that most knows her secret, keep going on with her life as a man. Her breasts can be ''very'' distractive to her enemies.
* ActionGirl
* BadAss
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Enders.
* TheChick
* MySiblingWillLiveThroughMe: Started her male life, bexause she had to be disguised as her dead brother, lest her mothers philandery would be exposed.
* ShowSomeLeg: The distraction of the spaniards, mentioned below.
* SweetPollyOliver
* WeNeedADistraction: She brutally distracts and murders several Spaniards at Matanceros, be exposing her breasts, then slicing their throats.
* WholesomeCrossdresser
!!Don Diego de Ramano
Also known as Black Eye, or the Jew, Don Diego is an old, Spanish gunpowder expert, living in Port Royal. His skills in gunpowder, makes him useful for Hunters expedition.
* BadAss:
** BadAssSpaniard
** HandicappedBadAss: His right hand has lost all its fingers.
* CoolOldGuy
* {{Fingore}}: Lost all his fingers in the backstory.
* TheRedBaron: Black Eye, and The Jew
* TheSmartGuy: A straighter example than Enders, due to his skills with gunpowder.
* YouKilledMyFather: Cazalla tortured and killed his son.
!!Bassa
Also known as The Moor, Bassa is a former slave, from Nubia, whose wife was killed by a slave owner whom he killed. He is the brute force of the crew.
* BadAss
* TheBigGuy
* DeadLittleSister: the slaveowner that cut out his tongue, also killed his wife.
* ALoadOfBull: [[spoiler: He got killed by a bull in the epilogue, during the Henry Morgan attack on Panama in 1671.]]
* MadeASlave: Was in the backstory.
* ScaryBlackMan: A heroic example.
* TongueTrauma: Inflicted on him in the backstory, by the slave owner that killed his wife.
* TheVoiceless
!!Andre Sanson
A large French, former priest, whom Hunter is suspicious of, but still lets join the crew due to his skills as an assassin. [[spoiler: betrays Hunter in the ending, and turns into the final villain of the book.]]
* TheArcher: Uses a crossbow.
* BadAss
** BadAssBeard
***[[spoiler: BeardOfEvil]]
* TheBigGuy: Competes with The Moor.
* [[spoiler: ExitPursuedByABear: Getting eaten by sharks.]]
* FrenchJerk
* [[spoiler: HoistByHisOwnPetard: Ends up getting killed by Hunter, using his own crossbow. Rather, the crossbow doesn't kill him, but wounds him, and sends him to the death by the sharks.]]
* [[spoiler: JustDesserts: the sharks, again.]]
* SinisterMinister: Though he is not a practicing priest anymore.
* SixthRanger: Could count as this, since he does not serve any specific purpose to the Five-ManBand.
** [[spoiler: SixthRangerTraitor]]
* ThreateningShark: Sharks are the only creatures on the planet he fears. [[spoiler: Gives some karma, in that this is exactly what ends up killing him.]]
* WeaponOfChoice: Always uses a crossbow.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: He fears nothing but sharks.
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[[folder: Port Royal]]
!!Sir James Almont
The British governor of Jamaica, hiring Hunter to attack Matanceros.
* CoolOldGuy
* DirtyOldMan: Has, at age 55 mind you, a relationship with the 15 year old Anne Sharpe.
* InsistentTerminology: Similar to Hunter, he takes digust in the word pirate, while finding no problem with privateer.
* [[spoiler: KillItWithFire: Dies a few years after the novel, form the Great London Fire, along with his niece.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure
* SurroundedByIdiots: His usual assistants, namely Hacklett and Commander Scott.
!!Robert Hacklett:
The bureaucratic assistant of Almont, he is very loyal to the British crown, and takes it upon him to extert piracy and privateering form Port Royal, and turn it into a more respectable British town. However, despite these somewhat noble intentions, after Hunters departure, he takes control of the town, imprisons Almont, and starts hanging pirvateers, stealing their treasures, and finally loses it when letting his wife get raped.
* BigBad: Of the ending.
* GroinAttack: [[spoiler: Dies by getting shot in the groin.]]
* HangingJudge: When running the pirate trials.
* [[spoiler: KarmicDeath: Getting shot in the groin by his wife.]]
* MoralEventHorizon: Letting his wife get raped.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Starts as this.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: After imprisoning Almont.
!!Anne Sharpe:
A young girl, 15 or so, that is accused of petty crime in England, ahving stolen bread, and send to ALmont in Jamaica. He starts a relationship with her, and she helps free Hunter, and distracts [[spoiler: Sanson]] in the climax, allowing Hunter to kill him.
* FemmeFatale: Bordering on FilleFatale.
* TheImmodestOrgasm: Used as a signal to Hunter, while she has sex with [[spoiler: Sanson]] in the climax.
* ShowSomeLeg: ''All. The. Time''
* TheVamp: Heroic variety.
* WeNeedADistraction: She distracts both prison guards and [[spoiler: Sanson]] in the climax.
!!Emily Hacklett
The promiscuous wife of Robert Hacklett, subjected to the misfortune of an impotent husband. SHe becomes pregnant during and infraction with Hunter early on, and bears his only son.
* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: Shoots Hacklett in the groin, after he has allowed Commander Scott to rape her.]]
* ReallyGetsAround
* YourCheatingHeart
!!Lady Sarah Almont
The niece of James Almont, taken prisoner by Cazalla at Matanceros, and subsequently rescued by Hunter.
* DistressedDamsel: Repeatedly. Was captured by Cazalla as a trophy of his conquest, gets kidnapped by the Caribs, and the kraken ambushes her cabin. Hunter saves her every single time.
* DumbBlonde: Does not know what a hurricane is, and does not understand the way Hunter governs the ship.
* GrandeDame
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler: Along with her uncle, killed in the Great London Fire.]]
* TheLoad: Never really does anything useful to the expedition, and constantly getting herself in danger, both at the hands of the Caribs, and at the tentacles of the kraken.
* StayInTheKitchen: In response to her DumbBlonde, and TheLoad actions, Hunter tells ehr to stay in her cabin constantly. That is, until the kraken attacks her cabin...
* TookALevelInBadAss: It does give her some credit, that she helps her uncle kill the guards to his mansion in the climax.
!!Commander Scott
The sleazy commandor of Port Royals military garrison, and TheDragon to Hacklett, after his takeover.
* TheDragon: To Hacklett.
* MoralEventHorizon: Raping Emily, with Hackletts blessing.
* ProfessionalButtKisser: Is constantly trying to please Almont, and changes this to Hacklett.
* {{Slimeball}}
* SociopathicSoldier: Although he seems, just like a ProfessionalButtKisser, when he rapes Emily, he shows to be more than that.
!!Whisper
An old privateer, an the only survivor of the previous Edmunds expedition towards Matanceros, he has a minor role, to give Hunter the essentials of the island.
* ShellShockedSenior: Is scared to death of Cazalla and Matanceros, understandably.
* SlashedThroat: Cazalla slashed his throat, though he survived, which is the reason he whispers.
* SoleSurvivor: Of the Edmunds expedition.
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[[folder: Others]]
!!Cazalla
The AxCrazy commander of Matanceros, widely feared by the privateers, for his cruelty and intelligence. He is the mian antagonist of most of the story.
* AxCrazy
* BadAss
** BadAssSpaniard
* BeardOfEvil
* BigBad: [[spoiler: Until his early death.]]
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Does not remember the killing of The Jews son, and Hunters brother.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Is a wide practitioner of it.
* TheDreaded: Is widely feared by the privateers.
* DrugsAreBad: He is a coca addict.
* ForTheEvulz: His primary motivation.
* [[spoiler: ImpromptuTracheotomy: How he is gloriously killed.]]
* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: Said to take pleasure in the agony of his victims.
* SlashedThroat: He likes killing people, including a crewmember this way. [[He dies in a glorious variation of this.]]
* TheStoner: Chews coca leaves.
!!Bosquets
A renegade French soldier, and the gunnery master at Matanceros, Cazallas second-in-command.
* TheDragon: To Cazalla
** DragonAscendant: Takes charge of the warship after [[spoiler: Cazallas death.]]
* TheGhost: He is seen, but always through telescopes, and the protagonists never really meets him.
* LeanAndMean: Described as tall and somewhat thin.
* TheQuietOne: Is never ehard speaking.
* SatelliteCharacter: To some extent to Cazalla.
!!The Kraken
A vast creature that attacks El Trinidad, the Spanish treasure galleon, under Hunters command, as his final obstacle before Port Royal. Is probably a giant squid.
* AttackOfTheMonsterAppendage: In the beginning of the attack, the only thing the crew sees, are tentacles flinging soldiers into the sea, Hunter only sees the main body of the beast later.
* AnimalsNotToScale: Is way larger than real giant squid and colossal squid as well, but being a colossal squid would make it MisplacedWildlife.
* CombatTentacles: Obviously.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Although, given the size differences, it is probably not the same individual spotted by Hunter earlier, the crew does see a GiantSquid, that is passive to their presence, even before encountering Bosquets' warship.
* EverythingsSquishierWithCephalopods: The arrival of a kraken serves as the only devation from realism in the book. But it is awesome.
* EyeScream: Hunter defeats it by plunging an ax into the creatures eye.
* GiantSquid
* KrakenAndLeviathan
* SeaMonster
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[[folder: Cassandra Crew]]
The crew of Hunters expedition, and his privateer, the Cassandra.
!!Charles Hunter:
The main protagonist of the book, Charles Hunter is regarded as one of the best privateers in Jamaica. In spite of his personality and attitude, he has a classical education, and is inheritantly BadAss.
* AwesomeMcCoolName: Admit it, you'd wish you were called Hunter.
* AnAxToGrind: How to kill the kraken.
* {{Anti-Hero}}: Bordering on VillainProtagonist. His only really good attributes is that he has honor to his men, and that Cazalla is even worse.
* BadAss
** BadAssBeard
* BrilliantButLazy: Actually educated at Harvard, but fails to see the use of knowing classical mathematics, in practical use.
* TheCaptain
* TheCasanova
* GeniusBruiser: His education.
* HandsomeLech
* TheHero
* {{Privateer}}
* YouKilledMyFather: Cazalla killed his brother, but he mostly OnlyInItForTheMoney.
!!Enders:
The "sea artist", regarded as the best sailor in the Caribbean, he is hired by Hunter as the steerer to his ship, the Cassandra. Is also a Doctor in Port Royal, and his skills repeatedly saves the crew.
* BadAss
* DeadlyDoctor: The only one in Port Royal who isn't one.
* [[spoiler: DroppedABridgeOnHim: A year after the book, he is killed in a storm.]]
* TheLancer: Though he could go as TheSmartGuy.
* TheRedBaron: The sea wizard, and the sea artist.
!!Lazue:
A corruption of the name Les Yeux, Lazue is a woman, having lived most of her life disguised as a man, and despite that most knows her secret, keep going on with her life as a man. Her breasts can be ''very'' distractive to her enemies.
* ActionGirl
* BadAss
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Enders.
* TheChick
* MySiblingWillLiveThroughMe: Started her male life, bexause she had to be disguised as her dead brother, lest her mothers philandery would be exposed.
* ShowSomeLeg: The distraction of the spaniards, mentioned below.
* SweetPollyOliver
* WeNeedADistraction: She brutally distracts and murders several Spaniards at Matanceros, be exposing her breasts, then slicing their throats.
* WholesomeCrossdresser
!!Don Diego de Ramano
Also known as Black Eye, or the Jew, Don Diego is an old, Spanish gunpowder expert, living in Port Royal. His skills in gunpowder, makes him useful for Hunters expedition.
* BadAss:
** BadAssSpaniard
** HandicappedBadAss: His right hand has lost all its fingers.
* CoolOldGuy
* {{Fingore}}: Lost all his fingers in the backstory.
* TheRedBaron: Black Eye, and The Jew
* TheSmartGuy: A straighter example than Enders, due to his skills with gunpowder.
* YouKilledMyFather: Cazalla tortured and killed his son.
!!Bassa
Also known as The Moor, Bassa is a former slave, from Nubia, whose wife was killed by a slave owner whom he killed. He is the brute force of the crew.
* BadAss
* TheBigGuy
* DeadLittleSister: the slaveowner that cut out his tongue, also killed his wife.
* ALoadOfBull: [[spoiler: He got killed by a bull in the epilogue, during the Henry Morgan attack on Panama in 1671.]]
* MadeASlave: Was in the backstory.
* ScaryBlackMan: A heroic example.
* TongueTrauma: Inflicted on him in the backstory, by the slave owner that killed his wife.
* TheVoiceless
!!Andre Sanson
A large French, former priest, whom Hunter is suspicious of, but still lets join the crew due to his skills as an assassin. [[spoiler: betrays Hunter in the ending, and turns into the final villain of the book.]]
* TheArcher: Uses a crossbow.
* BadAss
** BadAssBeard
***[[spoiler: BeardOfEvil]]
* TheBigGuy: Competes with The Moor.
* [[spoiler: ExitPursuedByABear: Getting eaten by sharks.]]
* FrenchJerk
* [[spoiler: HoistByHisOwnPetard: Ends up getting killed by Hunter, using his own crossbow. Rather, the crossbow doesn't kill him, but wounds him, and sends him to the death by the sharks.]]
* [[spoiler: JustDesserts: the sharks, again.]]
* SinisterMinister: Though he is not a practicing priest anymore.
* SixthRanger: Could count as this, since he does not serve any specific purpose to the Five-ManBand.
** [[spoiler: SixthRangerTraitor]]
* ThreateningShark: Sharks are the only creatures on the planet he fears. [[spoiler: Gives some karma, in that this is exactly what ends up killing him.]]
* WeaponOfChoice: Always uses a crossbow.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: He fears nothing but sharks.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Port Royal]]
!!Sir James Almont
The British governor of Jamaica, hiring Hunter to attack Matanceros.
* CoolOldGuy
* DirtyOldMan: Has, at age 55 mind you, a relationship with the 15 year old Anne Sharpe.
* InsistentTerminology: Similar to Hunter, he takes digust in the word pirate, while finding no problem with privateer.
* [[spoiler: KillItWithFire: Dies a few years after the novel, form the Great London Fire, along with his niece.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure
* SurroundedByIdiots: His usual assistants, namely Hacklett and Commander Scott.
!!Robert Hacklett:
The bureaucratic assistant of Almont, he is very loyal to the British crown, and takes it upon him to extert piracy and privateering form Port Royal, and turn it into a more respectable British town. However, despite these somewhat noble intentions, after Hunters departure, he takes control of the town, imprisons Almont, and starts hanging pirvateers, stealing their treasures, and finally loses it when letting his wife get raped.
* BigBad: Of the ending.
* GroinAttack: [[spoiler: Dies by getting shot in the groin.]]
* HangingJudge: When running the pirate trials.
* [[spoiler: KarmicDeath: Getting shot in the groin by his wife.]]
* MoralEventHorizon: Letting his wife get raped.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Starts as this.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: After imprisoning Almont.
!!Anne Sharpe:
A young girl, 15 or so, that is accused of petty crime in England, ahving stolen bread, and send to ALmont in Jamaica. He starts a relationship with her, and she helps free Hunter, and distracts [[spoiler: Sanson]] in the climax, allowing Hunter to kill him.
* FemmeFatale: Bordering on FilleFatale.
* TheImmodestOrgasm: Used as a signal to Hunter, while she has sex with [[spoiler: Sanson]] in the climax.
* ShowSomeLeg: ''All. The. Time''
* TheVamp: Heroic variety.
* WeNeedADistraction: She distracts both prison guards and [[spoiler: Sanson]] in the climax.
!!Emily Hacklett
The promiscuous wife of Robert Hacklett, subjected to the misfortune of an impotent husband. SHe becomes pregnant during and infraction with Hunter early on, and bears his only son.
* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: Shoots Hacklett in the groin, after he has allowed Commander Scott to rape her.]]
* ReallyGetsAround
* YourCheatingHeart
!!Lady Sarah Almont
The niece of James Almont, taken prisoner by Cazalla at Matanceros, and subsequently rescued by Hunter.
* DistressedDamsel: Repeatedly. Was captured by Cazalla as a trophy of his conquest, gets kidnapped by the Caribs, and the kraken ambushes her cabin. Hunter saves her every single time.
* DumbBlonde: Does not know what a hurricane is, and does not understand the way Hunter governs the ship.
* GrandeDame
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler: Along with her uncle, killed in the Great London Fire.]]
* TheLoad: Never really does anything useful to the expedition, and constantly getting herself in danger, both at the hands of the Caribs, and at the tentacles of the kraken.
* StayInTheKitchen: In response to her DumbBlonde, and TheLoad actions, Hunter tells ehr to stay in her cabin constantly. That is, until the kraken attacks her cabin...
* TookALevelInBadAss: It does give her some credit, that she helps her uncle kill the guards to his mansion in the climax.
!!Commander Scott
The sleazy commandor of Port Royals military garrison, and TheDragon to Hacklett, after his takeover.
* TheDragon: To Hacklett.
* MoralEventHorizon: Raping Emily, with Hackletts blessing.
* ProfessionalButtKisser: Is constantly trying to please Almont, and changes this to Hacklett.
* {{Slimeball}}
* SociopathicSoldier: Although he seems, just like a ProfessionalButtKisser, when he rapes Emily, he shows to be more than that.
!!Whisper
An old privateer, an the only survivor of the previous Edmunds expedition towards Matanceros, he has a minor role, to give Hunter the essentials of the island.
* ShellShockedSenior: Is scared to death of Cazalla and Matanceros, understandably.
* SlashedThroat: Cazalla slashed his throat, though he survived, which is the reason he whispers.
* SoleSurvivor: Of the Edmunds expedition.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Others]]
!!Cazalla
The AxCrazy commander of Matanceros, widely feared by the privateers, for his cruelty and intelligence. He is the mian antagonist of most of the story.
* AxCrazy
* BadAss
** BadAssSpaniard
* BeardOfEvil
* BigBad: [[spoiler: Until his early death.]]
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Does not remember the killing of The Jews son, and Hunters brother.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Is a wide practitioner of it.
* TheDreaded: Is widely feared by the privateers.
* DrugsAreBad: He is a coca addict.
* ForTheEvulz: His primary motivation.
* [[spoiler: ImpromptuTracheotomy: How he is gloriously killed.]]
* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: Said to take pleasure in the agony of his victims.
* SlashedThroat: He likes killing people, including a crewmember this way. [[He dies in a glorious variation of this.]]
* TheStoner: Chews coca leaves.
!!Bosquets
A renegade French soldier, and the gunnery master at Matanceros, Cazallas second-in-command.
* TheDragon: To Cazalla
** DragonAscendant: Takes charge of the warship after [[spoiler: Cazallas death.]]
* TheGhost: He is seen, but always through telescopes, and the protagonists never really meets him.
* LeanAndMean: Described as tall and somewhat thin.
* TheQuietOne: Is never ehard speaking.
* SatelliteCharacter: To some extent to Cazalla.
!!The Kraken
A vast creature that attacks El Trinidad, the Spanish treasure galleon, under Hunters command, as his final obstacle before Port Royal. Is probably a giant squid.
* AttackOfTheMonsterAppendage: In the beginning of the attack, the only thing the crew sees, are tentacles flinging soldiers into the sea, Hunter only sees the main body of the beast later.
* AnimalsNotToScale: Is way larger than real giant squid and colossal squid as well, but being a colossal squid would make it MisplacedWildlife.
* CombatTentacles: Obviously.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Although, given the size differences, it is probably not the same individual spotted by Hunter earlier, the crew does see a GiantSquid, that is passive to their presence, even before encountering Bosquets' warship.
* EverythingsSquishierWithCephalopods: The arrival of a kraken serves as the only devation from realism in the book. But it is awesome.
* EyeScream: Hunter defeats it by plunging an ax into the creatures eye.
* GiantSquid
* KrakenAndLeviathan
* SeaMonster
[[/folder]]
