The Fortunate Isles (short story)

The Fortunate Isles was a short story published in The Legends of Ashildr.
== Summary ==
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== Characters ==
* Ash
* Francisco Lopez
* Garcia
* Fernando
== Worldbuilding ==
=== Individuals ===
* Ash is an alias of Ashildr.
* Diego was the former ship's lookout.
* Marco Polo and his brothers traversed the old land routes from Europe to Asia.
=== Places ===
* Seville is a city.
* Upon boarding, Ash believes the El Galgo is bound for Genoa or Marseilles.
* Ash steals a brooch for the Condottiero in Pisa.
* Ash has recently left Paris.
* After leaving the port of Seville, the El Galgo sails down the River Guadalquivir.
* The Azores are Portuguese islands which lie to the west of Seville.
* The El Galgo is searching for a western route from Europe to Asia by sea, as the Mamluk and Ottoman Sultans, in Egypt and Turkey, have made land routes impassable.
** Reaching India, China or Japan means either sailing around Africa's Cape of Good Hope, which no European has ever done, or sailing west across the Atlantic.
* The El Galgo stops on the island of São Miguel, located between Europe and China.
=== Ships ===
* Ash flees aboard the El Galgo - The Greyhound, a Spanish ship.
* The El Galgo is in a race with the San Giorgo, a Genoese ship.
== Notes ==
* The story is told from a third person point of view, unlike two other stories in the anthology.
== Continuity ==
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Category:Stories set in 1485
Category:Stories set in Spain
Category:The Legends of Ashildr short stories