I spent most of my life dodging the royal fleet and now I'm sailing right at them
Stannis summoned me. For my salvation of Storm's End, l was to be granted a knighthood, a keep of my own and my son taken into Stannis's personal service
I was never a pirate, I was a smuggler
Every port on the Narrow Sea had a bounty on me, which they would collect if l didn't pay a percentage to the right people or pick the right tides