The Fortunate Isles (short story)
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The Fortunate Isles was a short story published in The Legends of Ashildr.
Summary
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Characters
Worldbuilding
Individuals
- Ash is an alias of Ashildr.
- Diego was the former ship's lookout.
- Marco Polo and his brothers traversed the old land routes from Europe to Asia.
Places
- Seville is a city.
- Upon boarding, Ash believes the El Galgo is bound for Genoa or Marseilles.
- Ash steals a brooch for the Condottiero in Pisa.
- Ash has recently left Paris.
- After leaving the port of Seville, the El Galgo sails down the River Guadalquivir.
- The Azores are Portuguese islands which lie to the west of Seville.
- The El Galgo is searching for a western route from Europe to Asia by sea, as the Mamluk and Ottoman Sultans, in Egypt and Turkey, have made land routes impassable.
- The El Galgo stops on the island of São Miguel, located between Europe and China.
Ships
- Ash flees aboard the El Galgo - The Greyhound, a Spanish ship.
- The El Galgo is in a race with the San Giorgo, a Genoese ship.
Notes
- The story is told from a third person point of view, unlike two other stories in the anthology.
Continuity
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