Skulls

My fascination for skulls and all things pirate may be caused by Mr Pirate himself: überpirate Francis Drake.

Apparantely he spent time plundring Valparaiso and gave origin to lots of myths. And probably the man also might have origined one or two bastards who might be ancestors to this creature. That would explain a lot, hehe.

From Britannia Biographies:
In 1577, therefore, he undertook, in his famous ship the Pelican or Golden Hind of 100 tons, and with four smaller vessels, the passage to the 'South Seas' by the Straits of Magellan.

In the course of this voyage, in which he was deserted by one ship, lost another in a storm and had to break up the other two as unseaworthy, Drake successfully accomplished the dangerous passage, was driven south as far as latitude 57 degrees, sailed up the Pacific coast of South America, plundered Valparaiso, took the Cacafuego (the richest prize in history) and cruised north as far as San Francisco.