It's the year 1522, the height of the Exploration Age. Upper class falconer Carter Helmsworth decides he should follow his father's maps and explore on the small ship Constantina along with the tiny crew and barely sane Portuguese captain that likes to throw the rum overboard for no damn reason. The reason Carter is leaving his steady job in England behind? He needs to know who he is. All he knows is that he is an orphan and that his ties lie in a country across the vast o