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"I've no objection to a little fighting…but not for the English crown."
―Nathaniel Hawk[src]

Nathaniel Hawk was an English captain who operated in the South Archipelago in the Caribbean sea during the 1630s. He took part in the liberation of Oxbay colony from a French invasion under Redmond Governor Robert Silehard and, later on, turned on the governor in a race for ancient treasure in the island of Khael Roa.

Biography[]

Arrival at Oxbay[]

"After surviving a fearsome storm, I've finally arrived at Oxbay. Thankfully the ship's cargo is intact."
―Nathaniel Hawk's journal[src]

In the year 1630 Nathaniel Hawk arrived in Oxbay having recently passed through a fierce storm aboard his small trading lugger the Victory. After setting foot in the town, his boatswain Malcom Hatcher retired to spend a quiet life on land while he spent the gold earned from selling cargo on repairs and hiring new crewmembers.

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The Victory escapes from Oxbay.

Nathaniel then left the island only to encounter a squadron of French warships emerging from the fog. His ship barely escaped while he watched the fleet bombard Oxbay's fort with ease and, within half hour, capture the colony. While heading out to open sea, he saw one other ship successfully escape.

Fighting the French[]

"It seems to me that instead of pressing you into the service of the army, it would be better if you...acted alone."
"What do you mean, sir?"
"As a new face in these waters, my hope is that you may be the key to securing more information about the French forces.
"
―Governor Silehard to Nathaniel Hawk[src]

Nathaniel sailed for Redmond island to inform Governor Robert Christopher Silehard of the attack. The governor, short on ships, commandeered the Victory and pressed Nathaniel to service, promising him a reward should he succeed in carrying out his assigned tasks. His first mission was to infiltrate Oxbay and find out whatever he could from the locals.

Hesitant at first to surrender his freedom to the cause of the crown, Nathaniel nevertheless obeyed the governor hoping to witness his generosity. He had to comb the dangerous jungles of Oxbay to reach the town from another part of the island which was not protected by the guns of the French-captured fort. Sneaking into the tavern, Nathaniel conspired with the barkeeper, Everard Gordon, to intoxicate a nearby French officer, Valentin Massoni, into giving out information about their plans.

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Nathaniel leads a drunken Massoni to the jungle.

Nathaniel offered to replace Massoni's late navigator and brought him along a supposed visit to his cousins' house in the town outskirts. A drunken Massoni grew suspicious once he realized that he had been tricked into getting lost in the jungle so he could provide information. Unable to fight due to his state, Massoni informed Nathaniel that the barque Oiseau was en route to Oxbay from Falaise de Fleur carrying ammunition supplies. Nathaniel let him return to the town but the guards chased him and he had to escape back to his ship.

He was then given the task of intercepting the Oiseau, which he performed by bribing the ship's escort captain, Amiel Berangere, and taking his place. Nathaniel attacked the barque at sea and defeated it, earning his promised reward from the governor.

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Nathaniel helps fight off a French ambush.

His next task was to escort Captain Ewan Glover's sloop Albion to land a detachment of troops on the secluded shore of Gray Rock Bay and meet up with the agent Tobias in Oxbay. Nathaniel helped the soldiers fight off a French ambush before heading back to Oxbay colony for the second part of the mission. After encountering Tobias, the Oxbay guards attacked them in the tavern and they hid in the nearby shipyard under Oweyn McDorey. Oweyn, in return, asked Nathaniel to deliver a mysterious closed chest to the tavern keeper in Redmond.

Nathaniel and Tobias met with the rogue French captain Rabel Yverneau to flee the island aboard Rabel's corvette Rivoli. Under heavy fire from French ships and the fort, the Rivoli's speed helped them escape to Redmond where Silehard informed Nathaniel that he would take part in the final liberation of Oxbay.

Before joining the battle, Nathaniel sought to rest in the nearby tavern and deliver Oweyn's chest. However, he was intercepted by two pirates who demanded to take it. Finding out that they could not be hurt by weapons, Nathaniel was forced to give the chest. He then found his partner Danielle Greene and her crewman Ralph Fawn inside before a group of soldiers arrived to arrest them. Startled by the situation and refusing to comply, the soldiers attacked, killing Ralph. Danielle escaped, by Nathaniel was imprisoned despite his indignations of being Silehard's personal agent.

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Silehard releasing Nathaniel from prison.

Inside the prison, Nathaniel was briefly mocked by the jailer Edgar Attwood who claimed to be the best cannoneer in the archipelago before being set free by Silehard. According to the governor, his arrest was a mistake - the real target had been Danielle. The governor brought him back to his study where he informed him that Oxbay had finally been freed, and gave him a new task - find and arrest Captain Raoul Rheims, whom he claimed to have betrayed England.

Encounter with the Black Pearl[]

"Oweyn is not the fool he seemed to be. He already knows this legend about skeleton pirates and cursed coins. He wanted me to deliver these cursed coins to his enemy in Redmond. Not a bad joke...but the pirates spoiled it. Apparently the fellow who knows all about this business lives on Falaise de Fleur."
―Nathaniel's journal[src]

Before embarking on his next mission, Nathaniel decided to investigate the incident he encountered earlier with the immortal pirates. He went to Oweyn McDorey in Oxbay and demanded an explanation, and found from him a legend that undead pirates were in search of cursed coins that would return them to their mortal state in the archipelago. The chest he had Nathaniel delivered contained some of these, and Oweyn took them from another person who told him that he could send it to an enemy who would be killed if he received it. Oweyn then told Nathaniel that a man who lived in Falaise de Fleur knew more about the legend than he, and Nathaniel set out to continue his investigation.

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Nathaniel encounters the Black Pearl.

Before reaching Falaise de Fleur's harbor, Nathaniel encountered a massive ghostly frigate - the Black Pearl. Painted all in black and with torn sails, the eerie vessel did not fire on his ship. Nathaniel then moored and found the man, Henry Peat, in a hut near the port in Falaise de Fleur. Henry told him that he was once part of the Black Pearl's crew until an encounter with huge gold coins they looted. After the incident, the sailors started killing each other, and a curse took effect on them, transforming them into living skeletons who could not die. They appeared as normal people during the daytime, but as their bony undead forms during the night. Unlike the others, Henry decided to repent of his ways and live a quiet life on land.

Before leaving port, Nathaniel met his old friend Gordon Carpenter and the two shared a drink in the tavern. Nathaniel asked Gordon about the Black Pearl and found from him that according to legend, the ship was invincible and captained by the Devil himself, but that there was one artifact that could destroy it, to be found in the savage jungles of the Caribbean.

Search for Rheims[]

"I want you to bring me the person who betrayed us and put our colony in such peril! His name is Raoul Rheims."
"If I may ask, what did he do?"
"Inquisitive! I like that. Make no mistake. Rheims is a traitor to the Crown most vile. And a betrayer of his own crew as well. He was carrying out a very important mission when he switched allegiances.
"
―Silehard to Nathaniel[src]

Beginning his search for Rheims, Nathaniel first embarked to the pirate-ruled island of Quebradas Costillas south of Oxbay, where Rheims was last reported seen. Upon arriving in the settlement, Nathaniel witnessed two men fighting, one man of them unarmed. He told the aggressor to drop his sword but was in turn attacked, and had to kill him. The victim, Artois Voysey, thanked Nathaniel and agreed to be his navigator.

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Nathaniel visits Isenbrandt Jurcksen.

Nathaniel did not find Rheims in the colony, but managed to bribe one of the locals into telling him Rheims' last destination point - the smugglers' colony in Conceicao island. There, he found that Rheims had again left earlier, and met with the town leader Camilo Machado who refused him entry into Rheims' hideout. Nathaniel had to wait for evening to sneak into a window into the house to find some documents left by Rheims before being ambushed by two guards, whom he both killed in retaliation. The documents, while undoubtedly being Rheims', did not reveal his current destination, and the captain had to return to Redmond to inform Silehard that he had lost track of his target.

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Hawk boards the Sirena.

The governor was disappointed with Nathaniel, whom he believed to never fail due to his success in the preceding assignments. Nevertheless, Silehard paid him as promised, and gave him the new task of delivering a letter to Quebradas Costillas' chief captain Isenbrandt Jurcksen containing a request to kill Rheims. He then was asked to retrieve a personal collection of Incan treasures stolen from Silehard by pirates under Alistair Garcilaso. Nathaniel approached the pirate boss in his Douwesen hideout and found that it was missing one piece which had been stolen by an unidentified woman. Alistair refused to give up the artifacts, and Nathaniel was forced to board his ship, the Sirena, which held the stolen pieces.

The governor was pleased with Nathaniel's success, even if the set was incomplete. Silehard then told him to deliver to him a prisoner from Greenford in Oxbay, who Nathaniel found to be the same person as the woman who had stolen one of the artifacts. The prisoner had escaped by the time Hawk reached Greenford. however. When Nathaniel went outside, he witnessed an old man about to be set aflame by a group of men, who was blamed for sorcery. After rescuing him, Nathaniel found that he was a researcher named Clement Aurentius. Clement invited him to his lighthouse in Greenford's beach, and Nathaniel found Danielle there with a friend, Vincent Bethune, also searching for Rheims.

Silehard was outraged by his prisoner's escape, but Nathaniel promised him that he would be brought back this time, with Nathaniel having recovered the trail. He joined Danielle and Vincent and set sail for Douwesen where Rheims lived. Vincent excused himself, to Nathaniel's suspicion, while he and Danielle went with Rheims to his house in the jungle. Nathaniel fended off a trio of bandits while the other two went on.

Reaching Rheims' house, Nathaniel was shocked to find a deceased Vincent and a mortally wounded Rheims, exclaiming that he would have no one to bring to the governor. Finding out his allegiance to Silehard, Danielle struck him unconscious. The dying Rheims then revealed to her Silehard's reason for hunting him down - he possessed information about the treasure in the Temple of the Sun God in Khael Roa, which Silehard wanted for himself. In his last breaths, Rheims told Danielle to look for the Khirucatceliti statuette, which was key to opening the temple, and a transcription of the legend in Isla Muelle church's library. Nathaniel, pretending to be unconscious, overheard the conversation and headed for Isla Muelle.

Uncovering the Inca legend[]

"...it appears that Silehard is the one who ordered Rheims killed. What's more - he ordered Rheims killed because Rheims had discovered some treasures....(o)h, dear! To think I served such a rascal! I have to find Danielle now and convince her that I am not to blame."
―Nathaniel's journal[src]

Nathaniel had to help the church's priest Padre Domingues to recover stolen documents from the pirate Ferro Cerzo in Conceicao to be granted access to the library. However, he found from the priest that another person had visited the library earlier, and saw that a few pages were torn out of the transcription. Believing this individual to have been Danielle, Nathaniel headed for Oxbay's mining site where he was told tablets containing the original legend were recently discovered.

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Hawk in the Oxbay mine.

Although he later found out that the tablets were destroyed by a landslide, he was told by the mines' commander that another man had copied the writings onto parchment and left. One of the slaves in the mine, Leborio Drago, had seen this act, and told Nathaniel that a woman had come earlier in search for the man. Nathaniel paid for his freedom and made him his officer before setting sail for Isla Muelle once again, believing this woman to be Danielle.

Upon reaching the Spanish colony, he confirmed from the town's tavern keeper that a woman had indeed stayed there. When he left the tavern, Nathaniel found a wounded Danielle cornered by three assassins whom he slew. Although Danielle was grateful for Nathaniel's rescue, she still held scorn for his allegiance to Silehard. Nathaniel told her that he was deciding to quit his employer for his attempts on her life, and the two planned to infiltrate Silehard's residence in Redmond to interrogate him about the Incan treasure.

Turning on Silehard[]

""I'm...retired now, although Robert Christopher Silehard doesn't know it yet."
"Why? Didn't he pay you enough?"
"Believe it or not, gold has nothing to do with it. There's not enough coin in the world to keep me running errands for a man like him.
"
―Nathaniel switches sides to Danielle[src]

The pair arrived on the shore of Devil's Throat in Redmond from where they found a position to sneak into Silehard's bedchamber. The terrified governor managed to slip away before revealing any information to them, however, and Danielle told Nathaniel that the statuette needed to open the Temple was last seen in the hands of Rheims' late navigator Giraldo Figuiera who lived in Greenford.

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Interrogating the governor.

Nathaniel found from Greenford's tavern keeper Simon Hanpool that Giraldo indeed possessed the idol, but was murdered by an unnamed woman for it who escaped from prison - the same prisoner Nathaniel had failed to deliver to Silehard earlier. The idol, Simon said, was currently under the head of the garrison in the prison. Although he pretended to still be an agent of Silehard to retrieve it from the warden, he was told that anyone looking for it was to be arrested, and that the idol was currently en route to Redmond aboard a frigate.

Nathaniel escaped to his ship and fought the frigate Arabella for the statuette, managing to take it after boarding her. While sailing back to Isla Muelle, a fierce storm threw him overboard to Palm Beach shore in Douwesen. Stranded and without a crew, Nathaniel had to persuade the pirates in the jungle to lend him a ship for his journey to Isla Muelle.

Upon mooring in the Isla Muelle port, Nathaniel was greeted by his crewmen who were overjoyed by his return. He found that they had spent for repairs on his ship, and celebrated with them in the tavern before meeting with Danielle. The pair agreed to go to Clement's lighthouse to consult his knowledge of Inca texts to translate the writing on the tablets, which Danielle had copied onto paper.

However, instead of finding Clement in the lighthouse, Nathaniel encountered a group of English soldiers who told him that Clement had been arrested in Greenford. Furious, Nathaniel fought and slew the guards, and told Danielle of the incident. They decided to free Clement by planning an ambitious siege on Greenford to capture the colony.

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Nathaniel's ships siege Greenford fort.

Danielle led an ambush from the jungle while Nathaniel prepared a squadron of ships to take on the fort. Although his fleet took heavy losses, the ships managed to destroy all the fort's cannons, rendering it unable to return fire. He then landed his crewmembers on the fort to take out the garrison before uniting with Danielle's forces in storming the town proper.

After an intense battle, the pair had finally captured the colony, and freed Clement without trouble. However, news of their assault alarmed Silehard, who sent a squadron of warships under Captain Waulter Tomlison to retake Greenford. Danielle commanded the fort's guns while Nathaniel engaged the ships in the bay. It was the most difficult battle Nathaniel had fought, but he eventually succeeded, and celebrated with Danielle thereafter.

Race for the treasure[]

"By the Sea Devil! Rumors of treasure certainly attract the wrong sort of people! A whole pirate fleet was waiting for us off Khael Roa. How did those carrion-crows find out that we were sailing there? I don't understand it. After our battle, we landed on Khael Roa. The temple is in the heart of the island, and Aurentius warned us of traps we may find inside."
―Nathaniel's journal[src]

Knowing that Silehard would soon prepare another counter-attack, Nathaniel and Danielle decided to set sail for Khael Roa to reach the treasure before the governor. Clement demanded to be brought along to satisfy his interest in the legend. The trio encountered an enormous man-of-war headed by Governor Silehard himself, the Belette, alongside an escort of three pirate ships led by his accomplice Isenbrandt Jurcksen, waiting for them by the island's bay.

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The Battle of Khael Roa.

A fierce engagement broke out, with Nathaniel's fleet incurring heavy casualties from the fire of Silehard's flagship. However, the tables soon turned, and all four enemy vessels were either sunk or captured by Nathaniel's squadron. At last, Nathaniel and Danielle had defeated their nemesis, and they were free to explore the island's Temple to find the treasure for themselves.

Upon entering the temple, the trio found themselves trapped in an elaborate labyrinth. They agreed to split ways to hasten the search. Nathaniel fought several undead guardians before arriving in a dead end, where he used the Khirucatceliti statuette to trigger an opening in the wall. This led to the Temple alcove where he was reunited with Danielle and Clement.

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Nathaniel and Danielle with the Incan artifact.

To reach the vault which contained the treasure, the trio had to use magical teleportation rooms in the alcove as the stairs that led to it were broken. They were then brought before a massive statue of the Sun God. Still not having found the treasure, Danielle grew impatient, and noticed a spherical device which was floating in front of the statue. She touched the device, which suddenly triggered an intense tremor beneath the Temple. The building began to collapse, and the trio had to escape being buried alive back to the shore.

Battling the Black Pearl[]

Deciding to abandon their quest, the three climbed back to their ships where they encountered the Black Pearl, which emerged from the fog and attacked them without warning. Finding the Pearl to be virtually impervious to their cannon fire, Danielle used the Incan device she had taken from the temple to damage her.

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The destruction of the Black Pearl.

The weakened Black Pearl continued fighting them, but was eventually finished off by continued barrages from Nathaniel's ships. The cursed frigate sank to the bottom of Khael Roa's bay, and Nathaniel and Danielle celebrated their victory on deck. From the shipwreck of the Pearl, however, the undead crewmen crept out, walking along the ocean floor to continue their search for the cursed coins.

Other quests[]

Nathaniel also took part in various other adventures in the Caribbean, such as taking down an animist order responsible for kidnapping children from Douwesen and a priest from Isla Muelle, clearing the name of a priest in Greenford accused of breaking his vow of celibacy, rescuing the son of a Spanish admiral, and returning a woman held hostage by a pirate in Douwesen to her father, among others. At one point, he was even offered a job as a mercenary by the assassin Mateus Santos.

Nathaniel also escorted various merchant ships and delivered cargo between stores between the various islands in the archipelago.

Personality and traits[]

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Captain Nathaniel Hawk

Nathaniel Hawk had a taste for adventure and a sense of individuality, preferring to pursue his own desires rather than serve a higher power. However, he could hardly be considered a pirate and was usually hesitant to directly involve himself in criminal activities.

Generally speaking, Nathaniel had a strong sense of honor, serving those whom he felt needed help or were genuinely of a noble cause. His betrayal of Governor Silehard was not one of mere opportunism, but motivated primarily by Silehard's attempts on the life of his love interest Danielle. If given the chance, he would never have betrayed his home country, and while he disliked military duty, he did not hesitate to serve the crown, especially when rewarded generously.

One of Nathaniel's key strengths was his keen sense of intuition and street intelligence. He knew when to intimidate someone when he felt it useful, while also retreating when he knew the odds were stacked against him. Silehard exploited this side of Nathaniel, feeling especially disappointed on the rare occasions such a smart captain failed the task assigned to him.

Despite this, Nathaniel did not have the mind of a politician. He failed to see Silehard's pulling of strings, and it was possible he would have been dealt with soon enough by the governor if not for Danielle's warning. Finding out Silehard's correspondence with the pirate chief Jurcksen, for instance, should have been a give-away as to the shady nature of the governor. Nathaniel also lacked Danielle's hot-headedness and sheer lust for treasure. His mind was more evenly tempered, seizing opportunities only when they led to reasonable ends and were within one's means.

Behind the scenes[]

  • Nathaniel Hawk was originally named Blaze during the early development phase of Sea Dogs II, prior to its conversion into a Pirates of the Caribbean tie-in. Several data files related to Nathaniel Hawk still use this name, and the name was used for him in an early trailer for Sea Dogs II. This unused name would later be recycled for Blaze Sharp, one of the protagonists of Akella's 2006 game Age of Pirates: Caribbean Tales.
  • Nathaniel Hawk returns in the 2012 game Sea Dogs: To Each His Own, where he plays a role in the main campaign.

Appearances[]

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