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[john-silvers]

XVI. When Captain Flint first arrived on this island, he gained influence faster than any man I’d seen before or since. I heard men say it was because of the violence. I heard men say it was his charm. But it was clear to me the reason why he was so good at bending men towards his will was he knew the power of a story, and how to harness it to his own ends. That man there, I would argue, may very well be his equal.

[daeneryssansa]

From across an ocean, it is hard to know what the New World is. All I knew were the stories I was told of monsters and valiant men sworn to slay them. But now that I’ve nearly traversed the ocean that separates new world from old, I fear that the stories I’ve heard may have clouded the truth more than clarified it. It would seem these monsters are men - sons, brothers, fathers - and it would seem these men fear their own monsters - an empire, a navy, a king, my father.

[rhcenyra]

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You raised me to respect the truth. To know it is the root of all virtue. I'm asking if you're sending me away because you're afraid someone might ask me what happened in this house last night and that I would tell them. Abigail, I understand that you're upset. Why aren't you? A man and a woman rescued me, cared for me, delivered me home. Now one of them is dead. The other is about to be. And the only man, it seems to me, to have committed a crime in all this still works for you. Is that not the truth?

[daeneryssansa]

From across an ocean, it is hard to know what the New World is. All I knew were the stories I was told of monsters and the valiant men sworn to slay them. But now that I’ve nearly traversed the ocean that separates new world from old, I fear that the stories I’ve heard may have clouded the truth more than clarified it. It would seem these monsters are men - sons, brothers, fathers - and it would seem these men fear their own monsters - an empire, a navy, a king, my father. Abigail Ashe, Black Sails (Season 2)

[john-silvers]

Let me tell you a story about a Spaniard named Vazquez...

[john-silvers]

Black Sails  +  stories  [3 / 3]

[daeneryssansa]

Black Sails rewatch - Episode XVI The story’s his, the story isn’t his. But the power of the telling - that is clearly his. At the moment, he’s using it to help the captain. But God help us if he ever realizes what else he could use it to accomplish.

[daeneryssansa]

From across an ocean, it is hard to know what the New World is. All I knew were the stories I was told of monsters and valiant men sworn to slay them. But now that I’ve nearly traversed the ocean that separates new world from old, I fear that the stories I’ve heard may have clouded the truth more than clarified it. It would seem these monsters are men - sons, brothers, fathers - and it would seem these men fear their own monsters - an empire, a navy, a king, my father.

[daeneryssansa]

Black Sails rewatch - Episode XII Her judgement about Captain Vane has never been right, but because she is compromised, it does not necessarily follow that she is wrong. To force men to take sides against each other at a time when our very survival demands the very opposite...I fear that if we go down that road, by the time Spain or England arrive, they will find their job done for them. They will find Nassau has destroyed herself. The world changes - it is inevitable, perhaps the only thing that is inevitable.

[daeneryssansa]

Black Sails rewatch - Episode XV The two scouts reported to me what they had observed on the beach, what had driven them to leave their post ahead of schedule and return to Nassau with the utmost haste - that a tropical disease had befall the Spanish camp. Dozens dead or dying, many more suffering, weakened. Only a handful of men defending it, most barely even able to stand. The Urca gold is on that beach exactly where we left it, and, owing to a most fortuitous act of God, it is almost entirely undefended.