Luffie
Among the Freewake Enclaves, there is no admiral, no grand council, and no crown.
There is only the Pirate King.
And his name is Luffie.
No one appointed Luffie.
No enclave voted him in.
No charter recognizes his authority.
He became Pirate King the same way storms become inevitable:
By being impossible to ignore.
Luffie unified the Freewake not through conquest or fear, but through action. He broke Sun-Kissed slaver convoys with impossible timing, freed captives without demanding loyalty, and laughed in the face of navies that swore they had him cornered.
Crews followed him because:
he never sold out the weak
he never kept what didn’t matter
and he never treated freedom like a resource
Eventually, the Freewake stopped arguing about leadership.
They just started asking, “Where’s Luffie headed next?”
Legendary · Ring
At the end of his wandering, Luffie is said to have found the One Piece—a treasure so infamous that entire generations of pirates died chasing it.
When pressed about what it does, Luffie reportedly answered:
“It’s just a ring.”
And that is the truth.
The One Piece:
does not grant power
does not unlock secrets
does not bend fate
does not prove worth
It does nothing.
The One Piece was never the reward.
It was the punchline.
The treasure wasn’t wealth, dominion, or ascension. It was the journey, the bonds forged, the freedom claimed, and the lives changed along the way.
Anyone looking for power was always going to miss it.
Luffie didn’t.
Luffie does not command the Freewake Enclaves.
He inspires them.
He settles disputes by punching the problem (sometimes literally)
He refuses permanent bases or thrones
He never interferes unless someone is being enslaved or hunted unjustly
He leaves leadership where it belongs: with the people affected
The Freewake tolerates chaos.
They trust Luffie.
Hidden Eidolon: Quiet approval, unspoken gratitude
Sun-Kissed Crown: Wanted dead, erased from records, cursed in sermons
Hell’s Gate: Amused respect
Beastkin Alliance: Friendly neutrality
Yokai Kingdom: Watches him carefully, with curiosity
Luffie has no interest in ruling the world.
He just refuses to let anyone else own it.
The Pirate King of the Freewake holds the most famous treasure in the world.
It does nothing.
It changes nothing.
It proves nothing.
And somehow—
That makes it the most honest artifact in Atherfall.
Because in a world obsessed with power, Luffie found freedom instead—and never tried to sell it to anyone else.