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- "You see, I have an army...the strongest army any man has ever seen. It can be summoned at a moment's notice. It does not need food, nor water, nor barracks, nor pay. It lives only to destroy. I call it my Shadow Army. If you have any doubt of this army's power, perhaps you should pay a visit to a certain town along the Caribbean coast in Panama. Then you will know how much power I have at my fingertips."
- ―The Shadow Lord
The Shadow Army, otherwise referred to as an army of shadows, was a supernatural army of shadows created by Henry Morgan, a former Pirate Lord of the Second Brethren Court who later studied alchemy and became the Shadow Lord. The Army was composed of all kinds of unliving objects which were turned into living creatures by Morgan. The Army was controlled by Morgan's magic, though he had some problems with them. In their first mission, in which a city in Panama was destroyed, the Shadow army destroyed his ship to find the material to make more shadow creatures. During Morgan's conquest and the quest for the Shadow Gold, the shadow creatures were supposed to destroy the Brethren Court on the Day of the Shadow, but they ultimately failed because their master was defeated by Captain Jack Sparrow and the other Pirate Lords.
Behind the scenes[]
The Shadow Army appeared in the Pirates of the Caribbean: Legends of the Brethren Court book series by Rob Kidd, where the term "army of shadows" was also named on the back cover of the printed books, beginning with the 2008 book Legends of the Brethren Court: The Caribbean.[1]
Appearances[]
- Legends of the Brethren Court: The Caribbean (First appearance)
- Legends of the Brethren Court: Rising in the East (Mentioned only)
- Legends of the Brethren Court: The Turning Tide (Mentioned only)
- Legends of the Brethren Court: Wild Waters
- Legends of the Brethren Court: Day of the Shadow