For many a nation throughout history, a grand overseas empire was their path to wealth, power and glory. It worked for the Romans, it worked for the English, and in 1698, the Scottish believed it would work for them too. A colony in the new world, with all its exotic riches and boundless potential, could be just the ticket to reverse the fortunes for the Kingdom of Scotland.

Such an endeavour however, requires a big gamble. And you must hope that the cards you're dealt are enough to keep you in the game. Unless of course, the game was rigged from the start...

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A monastic life, is a simple life. Daily prayer. Quiet contemplation. A pursuit of inner peace over worldly excitements.

A pirate’s life on the other hand, is the exact opposite. Daily turmoil upon the high seas. Fiercely plotting deadly revenge. A pursuit of fame, fortune and all the pleasures of the world.

This is the tale of a man who traded one life for another, with a bit of black magic thrown in for the hell of it…

For this months episode of the Cloak and Dagger Podcast we are joined by a great friend of the podcast, Charlie Denton, who has brought us an extraordinary tale of a monk of questionable piety, sailing his way into the middle of a war between France and England.

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Life on this planet must endure a lot to survive. Earthquakes and tsunamis rock entire regions. While floods and wildfires destroy complex ecosystems in a matter of hours. And yet life always finds a way to flourish despite everything the world can throw at it.

However these acts of god are no longer the only cataclysms life must face. Mankind’s development over the last 10,000 years came from our unique ability to sculpt the world around us to better serve our needs. But in the last few centuries, this power of ours has been kicked into overdrive. Without knowing where this path would lead us, we developed a new way to run our civilisations that stoked the flames of industry while scorching the world around us even more. And this is the tale of where the spark of this new flame, first began to ignite…

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