" Duke Forecastle ", parte do Erfworld
Esta é uma das histórias paralelas de Erfworld , uma webcomic de fantasia popular baseada em jogos de estratégia de mesa. Não é realmente definido em 1800, mas o "lado" que ele apresenta tem uma espécie de Age of Sail, tema vitoriano.
O protagonista é de fato um soldado da terra, que neste cenário tem conseqüências numéricas reais de combate. Ele acha que o inimigo "domesticou" criaturas (não kraken, mas "quakken"):
“A trick’s a fine thing, and turnabout is fair play,” said Captain Forecastle through the little window in the brig door. “We tamed an eagle, but you tamed a quakken. That’s what you meant on the quarterdeck.”
E ele doma uma águia dupla:
He looked up, and realized that he knew the double eagle’s points. The head that had taken the last fish bent all the way down to him, and he instinctively reached out and scratched the little feathers on the top of its skull.
It was a Seaworld unit now. He had tamed it.
No final, ele não tem reconhecimento, mas ele tem um pequeno spin-off:
As for the current Governor of Eagle Keys, he was the comic relief of the tale, the seasick lubber who had bunged everything up by attracting a cursed double eagle to the Admiral’s flagship and then taming it. He was the one who’d gotten the Admiral croaked, and escaped from the fight by running away in terror.
Then, out of sheer dumb luck, he had managed to discover an unclaimed capital site on his way home.