Arafed man in a suit and hat standing on a rocky beach

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His Wilderness Grace Sir Hamish 'Shipwreck' Archibald stands as provisional governor administering the rugged boreal forests
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frigid inland lakes and tempestuous Lake Superior shoreline comprising isolated Keweenaw County from his remote stone and timber trading hall Fort Skull Creek positioned along the Shipwreck Coast near strategic Indigenous copper mining pits actively worked for centuries before European contact
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The stalwart Archibald clan claim descent from generations of Orkney Islands merchant mariners
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whalers and naval shipwrights weathering frigid North Sea storms to reap lucrative Arctic bounties of ivory
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pelts and rendered blubber oils to light the long winter nights back in Aberdeen counting houses tallying each successful season's profitable
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yet perils-fraught
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lucky returns
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By the early 19th century era of French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic economic blockades attrition forcing risky Baltic timber trade prospects
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ambitious younger sons like naval lieutenant Hamish “Shipwreck” Archibald sought further salt spray adventure chasing New World prizes penetrating the Great Lakes fur trade interior or facing privateer battles to capture rich Caribbean sugar plantation rum cargoes
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Now entering his fifth decade navigating harsh Keweenaw County isolation perched along Lake Superior's Shipwreck Coast where many bold captains met their fate upon the razor sharp Stannard Rocks
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the venerable mariner Sir Archibald continues facilitating prudent harbor development
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sustainable fisheries stewardship and mediating occasional claim trespasses between encroaching American mining trusts and the few remaining indigenous bands still permitted to traverse their ancestor’s lands to tap maple trees and spear spawning coho during fall flash floods cascading down the emerald Mont Ripley escarpment towering high above the cold smoke sea waters churning against worn basalt boulder buffer
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