Fernanda Maregellan – Ferdinand Magellan
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Fernanda Maregellan is a renowned explorer from Valencia. She is the the first Valencian to sail to every known Spiral World. She is being harassed by Vexxors, it is up to your wizard and Ponce de Gibbon to rescue her. After her rescue, she helps your wizard explore the Shards.
Ferdinand Magellan (c. 1480 – April 27, 1521) was a Portuguese explorer best known for having planned and led the 1519–22 Spanish expedition to the East Indies. During this expedition, he also discovered the Strait of Magellan, allowing his fleet to pass from the Atlantic into the Pacific Ocean and perform the first European navigation to Asia via the Pacific. Magellan died in the Philippines during his voyage, and his crew commanded by the Spanish Juan Sebastián Elcano completed the return trip to Spain in 1522 achieving the first circumnavigation of Earth in history.
Granted special powers and privileges by the king, he led the Armada from Sanlúcar de Barrameda southwest across the Atlantic Ocean, to the eastern coast of South America, and south to Patagonia. Despite a series of storms and mutinies, the expedition successfully passed through the Strait of Magellan into the Mar del Sur, which Magellan renamed the Mar Pacifico, or Pacific Ocean. The expedition landed at Guam after an arduous crossing of the Pacific, and then reached the Philippines. There, on April 27, 1521, Magellan was killed in the Battle of Mactan by being shot by a poison arrow on his neck. Under the command of Captain Juan Sebastián Elcano, the expedition finally reached the Spice Islands. The fleet’s two remaining ships then split ways, one attempting, unsuccessfully, to reach New Spain by sailing east across the Pacific. The other, commanded by Elcano, sailed west across the Indian Ocean and north along the Atlantic coast of Africa, finally returning to Spain in September 1522 and achieving the first complete circuit of the globe.
While in the Kingdom of Portugal’s service, Magellan had already reached the Malay Archipelago in Southeast Asia on previous voyages traveling east (from 1505 to 1511–1512). By visiting this area again but now traveling west, Magellan achieved a nearly complete personal circumnavigation of the globe for the first time in history.
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