Ponce de Gibbon – Juan Ponce de León
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Ponce de Gibbon is a Monquestian explorer. Your wizard first encounters “El Capitan” near his crashed ship in Saltmeadow Swamp of Azteca. At first mistaking you for a pirate, the monquestian reveals that he is in search of the “Water of Life”. Some time after your wizard has defeated the Shadow Queen, the Monquestian government rescued him from Azteca and sent him to lay claim to the world of Novus for the Monquestian Empire.
Juan Ponce de León (1474 – July 1521) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador known for leading the first official European expedition to Florida and for serving as the first governor of Puerto Rico. He was born in Santervás de Campos, Valladolid, Spain in 1474. Though little is known about his family, he was of noble birth and served in the Spanish military from a young age. He first came to the Americas as a “gentleman volunteer” with Christopher Columbus’s second expedition in 1493.
In 1513, Ponce de León led the first known European expedition to La Florida, which he named during his first voyage to the area. He landed somewhere along Florida’s east coast, then charted the Atlantic coast down to the Florida Keys and north along the Gulf coast; historian John Reed Swanton believed that he sailed perhaps as far as Apalachee Bay on Florida’s western coast. Though in popular culture he was supposedly searching for the Fountain of Youth, there is no contemporary evidence to support the story, which most modern historians consider a myth.
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