Arafed painting of a man standing on a boat in the ocean

1800s portrait of Lord Admiral Anselm Huron Appointed supreme Naval commander, the Lord Admiral oversees Michigan's maritime military from his grand seafort castle known as Fort Saint Ignace along the vital straits between Lake Huron and Lake Michigan House Huron has a storied service defending Mittenia's inland lake passages, Great Lakes shipping routes, and seasonal fishing/furbearing waters going back generations to the Age of Discovery era French explorers As Lord Admiral, Anselm leads Mittenia's war barges, longboats and merchant marine conversions during naval warfare - leveraging ship tech from Norse and Basque traditions against rival English, Dutch and even Ottoman Barbary corsairs now reaching across the Atlantic Outfits shipboard marines, cannons, launches audacious boarding parties relying on musclepower rather than early unreliable gunpowder when battling storms and enemy vessels alike across the immense, tempestuous inland seas