It is impossible to understand a single page of One Piece without his presence. Gol D. Roger is one of the most important characters in the manga created by Eiichiro Oda for weight reasons. The mustachioed pirate was in charge of hiding the treasure that gives its name to the series, he encouraged an entire generation to search for him and he died with a smile on his face.
Little is known about the past of the greatest pirate that ever lived in the world of one piece, beyond the fact that his reward was immense, he had enormous strength and a number of enormous secrets that he took to the grave. A full-fledged legend that was based on two others that really ran rampant during the heyday of piracy in the 17th and 18th centuries.
the phoneglyphs of Olivier Levasseur
“My riches and treasures? If you want it, it’s yours, look for it! I left it all hidden in “that” place.” Those the last words spoken by Gol D. Roger before being impaled by the World Government’s steel in a public execution in the middle of Loguetown, his hometown in the East Blue.
That phrase caused a commotion among those present, it spread throughout the globe and began an incessant search to find out the whereabouts of a treasure whose exact nature is unknown. 26 years have passed since Oda began the adventure of one piece and there is still quite some time until we get the final answer.
Now is the time to talk about Olivier Levasseur, a French pirate who was well known at the beginning of the 18th century for his outrages in the middle of the Caribbean, Atlantic and Indian Oceans, where he was known under the nickname of El Gavilán. After many misdeeds carried out, he was sentenced to death and hanged in 1730 in front of the crowd who gathered in Réunion, an island located to the East of Madagascar.
According to the stories of those times, Levasseur threw a cryptogram to the people while proclaiming: “Let him find my treasure, who can understand it!”. The truth is that the document exists, rests in the Maritime Archives of Brest, in France, and shows a Old Creole French text which reads as follows:
First a pair of Dove Triskelion
Second course is in the body of the horse’s head
To taut your rope take a spoon
honey or else they made an ointment
Put some at the base of the wall cutout
You’ve waited for 2 fortunes running into the walls
Remove half sag carefully
To receive a molded woman who has just cleaned
It is the street of travelers of deep thin track is destined for you
Place apparent pins movement is provided major happiness
Eyes and nose of a pitiful dog that raised its paw
The management well shot sea and street of the tides
Death is a being that lies femmel
I knew to be anxiety is a lot
In stress is a dream man
Is still / complaining is not my habit
One of the difficulties is deserved and decisive
Some clue? The truth is that many have believed during these years that it is about signs leading to your hidden treasure, which is estimated at about 100 million pounds today. In all this time no one has gotten much clear and perhaps it is necessary to have some scholar from Ohara. Indeed, Nico Robin is one of the few people in the world capable of reading the Road Poneglyphs, some texts carved into indestructible blocks that point the way to the one piece. It is clear that Oda took many notes on Levasseur when he began to build the plot in his mind.
The true king of pirates
Gol D. Roger is known as the king of pirates, an unofficial distinction that serves to summarize his extensive legacy and that only the one who finds the one piece you can snatch. That is the great dream of Monkey D. Luffy, protagonist of the series and the reason why he embarks on an adventure that already exceeds 1,000 episodes.
However, Henry Every was the original pirate king, at least during his career as a pirate in the Indian Ocean in the 17th century. With an established base in Madagascar, Every racked up conquests and loot endlessly, coming to lead a fleet made up of 400 men and with a full hold of 60,000 pounds. He made life miserable for the countries whose coasts bathed those waters, but he got the icing on the cake with the Ganj-i-Sawai.
Eighty guns and four hundred musketeers watched this ship of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb, which fell into the hands of Every after three hours of combat. After torturing the passengers, he managed to accumulate a fortune of 200,000 pounds, which today would be equivalent to twenty million euros and is considered the largest loot ever achieved in the history of piracy.
Such feats catapulted Every among his fellow professionals, so He was called the king of piracy. Aurangzeb did not shrink from such an insult and offered a large bounty on his head, but the corsair’s whereabouts were never known. There are no sources that show when or where he died, in the same way that there is no totally reliable support for his birthplace.
Every evaporated from the face of the Earth and dodged the whip of justice, but his seal as king of pirates remained attached to his figure. By the way, his name from a video game as famous as Uncharted 4 may sound familiar to you. Yes, Naughty Dog was based on the story of Every so that his treasure and the utopian city of Libertalia sustained the latest adventure of Nathan Drake .
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