Percy Armillio

Percy Armillio
Personal details
Born	July 27, 1673 Skithiana, Skith
Died	January, 1726 (Presumed) (Age: 52) Horseshoe Bay
Cause of death	Mutiny (Possibly starvation or froze to death)
Resting place	Unknown
Nationality	Skithan
Height	6 ft (183 cm)
Occupation	Explorer
Known for	Credited with discovery of Zamastan in 1704
Military service
Allegiance	King Almaraz II, Skith
Service/branch	Navy
Years of service	1699-1719
Rank	Captain

Percy Armillio was a Skithan naval captain, explorer and navigator during the late 17th and early 18th century, best known for his explorations of present-day Zamastan and parts of the eastern Agrimai Ocean shores.

In 1704, Armillio made two attempts on behalf of Skithan King Almarez II to settle the island of Doris via a route through the Agrimai Ocean. However, he sailed past Doris by mistake and discovered a larger landmass, the land that would soon be named Zamah S'tan. In 1710, he landed at Point Tarin and explored the region around the modern Tofino metropolitan area, laying the foundations for a colony.

Armillio also discovered the Armillio Strait and the immense Horseshoe Bay on his final expedition, while looking for a passage way to other Skith colonies. In 1726, after wintering on the shore of Horseshoe Bay, Armillio wanted to press on further east, but most of his crew mutinied. The mutineers cast Armillio, his 4 sons, and seven others adrift; the Armillio's and their companions were never seen again.

1704 Discovery

The islands that would come to be known as Zamastan was discovered in 1704 by Percy Armillio, a Skithan national and explorer who stumbled upon the land inadvertently during one of his expeditions on behalf of the Skithan Empire. The Empire was a major world power at the time and was in the process of expanding its imperialist ambitions to the New World where they had already established multiple colonies in the Pacific Ocean. When he came across the previously unknown island, Armillio's intended destination had been Doris, another island in the Pacific located south of Zamastan, which the Skithan had already begun colonizing some five years previously. Aboard his ship traveling with him were a crew of approximately 100 men brought along to assist Armillio upon landing in Doris as well as an additional hundred African slaves. The captive African men were sent over from the Skithan mainland with the intended task of performing slave labor to assist in the construction of the colony on Doris.

Upon reaching this island and immediately realizing it was not his intended destination, Armillio became curious and ordered all crew to round up the captives and disembark the vessel with him as they set out on a brief exploration of the land. About fifty men accompanied Armillio as rudimentary maps were drawn up as accurately as possible while the other fifty held the slave laborers at gunpoint and ordered them to begin collecting any resources available. Cranberry and strawberry bushes, rocks embedded with iron and silver vessels, and wheat parses were just some of the commodities that were gathered and hauled back to the ship day after day after day. The Africans captives performing these tasks were sometimes not fed for weeks and when they were, extremely small portions were all the Skithan afforded them. They were given water on such a frequency so as to just barely keep them from becoming too dehydrated to perform the constant, back-breaking labor they were subjected to. Conditions were miserable and desperate; on occasion the slaves would be made to fight one another to the death by their captors with the winner receiving a minuscule amount of extra food or water. The Skithan found these "slave fights" entertaining and would make wagers among themselves as to who would win. Sometimes even the victor, after being coerced into killing one of his own with the promise of a slightly fuller stomach, would be denied his "prize" anyway and left to starve just the same.