10 A slight mod-i-fi-cationkptn_sparrowMay 14 2011, 05:46:29 UTC
The Curse of Cortes refers to the curse upon gold inside a chest on the Isle de Muerta. It is gold that the Aztec natives were to pay to Cortes so that he would stop killing them. Cortes' greed could not be stemmed and so the gods of the people he slaughtered placed a curse upon the blood money- that anyone who removed a piece of gold from the chest would be cursed for eternity. The curse itself turned the men of the Black Pearl into immortal men who were neither alive, or dead. They were still longing and hungry and thirsty, but could not taste the food they ate or feel refreshed by drink. They were to live a half-life because of their greed for the gold. It is only under the moonlight that the true nature of the curse becomes visually apparent, and the bodies of the cursed men becoming skeletons. Only by returning all the gold to the chest, and the blood of the thief would the curse lift. When Bootstrap sent off the gold coin to his son, Will- he had told Barbossa that they deserved to be cursed for what they had done to Jack. Barbossa then sent Bootstrap to the depths of the ocean. It was only after that they learned they needed Bootstrap's blood to lift the curse.
Jack met James Norrington at Port Royal after Jack's rescue of Elizabeth. Newly titled fop Commodore, Norrington's personal mission was to wipe out every pirate there ever was, seemingly regardless of guilt or innocence. So while Jack had saved Elizabeth , who Norrington had just proposed to, because of the brand of “pirate” from the East India Trading Company, Jack was to be hanged on the morning. A lovely start to any relationship. Elizabeth was the only one to prove any leverage against the puckered rear Commodore, using the acceptance of Norrington's proposal as a means to rescue Will from BoobBarbossa. Norrington was true to the crown and though, and Jack, having proved to be nothing but an honorable gentleman down on his luck, was set to hang at Port Royal for all manner of amusing charges. None of which included murder and/or rape. William and his crewmates were set to free Jack from the hangman's noose, and it is only then when Will and Elizabeth stand between Norrington and the good captain that Norrington concede that he will give Jack a days head start. Norrington makes good on his promise and even chased Jack into a hurricane which is how Norrington lost his commission as a Commodore and ended up in Tortuga drunk off his ass.
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Only by returning all the gold to the chest, and the blood of the thief would the curse lift. When Bootstrap sent off the gold coin to his son, Will- he had told Barbossa that they deserved to be cursed for what they had done to Jack. Barbossa then sent Bootstrap to the depths of the ocean. It was only after that they learned they needed Bootstrap's blood to lift the curse.
Jack met James Norrington at Port Royal after Jack's rescue of Elizabeth. Newly titled fop Commodore, Norrington's personal mission was to wipe out every pirate there ever was, seemingly regardless of guilt or innocence. So while Jack had saved Elizabeth , who Norrington had just proposed to, because of the brand of “pirate” from the East India Trading Company, Jack was to be hanged on the morning. A lovely start to any relationship.
Elizabeth was the only one to prove any leverage against the puckered rear Commodore, using the acceptance of Norrington's proposal as a means to rescue Will from BoobBarbossa.
Norrington was true to the crown and though, and Jack, having proved to be nothing but an honorable gentleman down on his luck, was set to hang at Port Royal for all manner of amusing charges. None of which included murder and/or rape. William and his crewmates were set to free Jack from the hangman's noose, and it is only then when Will and Elizabeth stand between Norrington and the good captain that Norrington concede that he will give Jack a days head start.
Norrington makes good on his promise and even chased Jack into a hurricane which is how Norrington lost his commission as a Commodore and ended up in Tortuga drunk off his ass.
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