You need to understand what we're sailing into. There's a reason why the Grand Line is called the Pirates Graveyard. It's because of the three great powers that rule those waters, one of which is the Seven Warlords of the Sea. Hello and welcome to One Piece 101. The series breaks down everyone and everything in the One Piece World. To date we are going to be exploring a long overdue group consisting of some of the most loved characters in the entire series, the Seven Warlords of the Sea. The Seven Warlords of the Sea, also known as the Shichipukai, are a group of powerful pirates, whose actions are granted immunity by the world government in exchange for their assistance with various undertakings in the interest of maintaining global order. In fact, the Seven Warlords, along with the Marines and the Four Emperors, are referred to as the three great powers, and the Marines in combination with the Seven Warlords are said to provide a balance to the Four Emperors, implying that without these Seven figures, the scale of power would tip greatly in favor of the empires. This is despite the fact that most Warlords of the Sea don't care what so ever for the interests of the world government, and will more often than not ignore their summons, and proceed to use the title of Warlord for their own individual pursuits. Now the makeup of the Seven Warlords has changed quite dramatically over the course of the series, but at the commencement of Lufius Adventure, the Seven Warlords of the Sea consisted of, Sir Crocodile, an exceptionally intelligent mastermind and at the time the leader of a highly influential underground organization named Baroquewerks, who very nearly succeeded in the task of plunging a country into complete civil war. Not only that, but he is a user of a logit type devil fruit that allows him to conjure, manipulate, and become sand, so he is a fearsome opponent in his own right as well. Gecko Moria, the captain of the world's largest pirate ship, Thrillerbark, and a one-time rival of Kaido, one of the Four Emperors. Moria also possesses a very deadly devil fruit that allows him to steal and manipulate the shadows of his opponents. Bartholomew Kummer, an incredibly complicated individual who has ties to almost every major faction in the One Piece world. He possesses terrifying raw strength and a devil fruit that allows him to repel anything he touches, which is much more powerful than it sounds. Oh, and he's a cyborg. Don Quixote Doflamingo, the heavenly demon. He is a former world noble and the figurehead of a vast underground black market within the One Piece world, primarily involving weapons, manufacture, and the slavery trade. He is an awakened devil fruit user whose power allows him to conjure and manipulate strings. Once again, this power is much more devastating than it sounds, and he was able to blackmail his way to becoming a wallot of the sea by threatening to reveal the national treasure of the world nobles. Boa Hancock, the pirate empress and captain of the all-female kooja pirates, with a devil fruit that in conjunction with her natural beauty, allows her to turn just about anybody in the world into stone with a few notable exceptions. She joined the Seven Wallards in order to protect her home island of Amazon Lily from being entered by the world government. Jinbei, the Knight of the Sea, a very honourable master of Fishman Karate and a former member of the Sun Pirates led by Fischer Taiga, who is considered to be one of the greater enemies of the world government. Jinbei accepted a position amongst the Seven Wallards in order to strengthen the bonds between human and fishermen. Dracule Mihawk, the undisputed world's greatest swordsman and one time rival of Redhead Shanks, who currently serves as one of the four emperors. He is quite possibly the most powerful member of the Seven Wallards, and very potentially the greatest asset to the world government. Or he would be, if you know he ever did anything that they asked him to. So as you can see we have quite an odd mixture of people who comprise this group. All of whom are exceptionally dangerous but tend to operate individually. In fact, several of the wallards have gone their entire tenure without ever having met their contemporaries at all, making them a not really efficient fighting force, at least not when compared to the Marines or the crew of an Emperor. For the most part that's not really the point of the Seven Wallards though. They exist to deter the existence of other pirates, the Rosarimonial show of power by the world government. It's the general idea that, you know, if even people like Dracule Mihawk or Bollahankawk can be brought under control, then what chance do you have? As well as the idea that if you were to stand against the world government, then there is every chance you'll have to face off against one of these individuals at some point, which is not an appealing idea for most pirates. Other than that, the wallards are essentially allowed to operate however they'd like, with the caveat that they compensate the world government with a portion of their plunder, kind of like an immunity tax, I guess, although I highly doubt that the world government have any effective method of enforcing this. But while the exact balance of power is unknown, the world government has deemed it exceptionally important that there are seven individuals with this wallard title at any given time, which gives rise to great concern whenever a member of this group leaves for whatever reason. For example, the very first time this occurred in the series was when Sir Crocodile was defeated by Luffy on the designation of Alabaster. Not only was this counterproductive to Crocodile's purpose of being a show of intimidating power, but it was also uncovered that he was concocting a nefarious plot to obtain the ancient weapon Pluton and cause great instability to the world. And so the wall government were left with no choice but to arrest Crocodile and strip him of the wallard title. Of course to maintain balance of the wall government then hurriedly scrambled to replace Crocodile and the candidate they landed on was Marshall D Teach, also known as Blackbeard. Now Teach was a rare case because he didn't outwardly portray the traditional qualities of a wallard, as he had next to no name recognition at the time, and in fact he did not even have a bounty assigned to him. However, he had managed to defeat and capture fire fist ace, a notorious member of the Whitebeard Pirates, and so Teach was accepted. Sometime after this it became clear that a wall with the Whitebeard Pirates was inevitable, and so all seven of the wallards were summoned to the Holy Land of Maryshwar, and this would be the event that triggered the largest change in the composition of the Seven Wallards. Firstly, Jinbei refused to participate and was thus stripped of his title and imprisoned in Impel Down. Meanwhile, Blackbeard betrayed the world government almost immediately and used his position to infiltrate Impel Down to recruit fierce empires for his own crew. And following the wall, Gecko Moria was deemed too weak to continue his association and was abruptly sacked in a manner of speaking. So this left a rather large power vacuum following the time skip. The Seven Wallards looked incredibly different, only for if the original members remained and whether being added to the fault after the time skip were Trafalgar Law, the surgeon of death who was a member of the worst generation and was accepted as a wallard after he presented the hearts of 100 pirates to the world government. Buggy the clown, leader of the pirate dispatch organization, and a former member of the Roger Pirates who gained extreme notoriety during the Paramount War for his highly successful marketing campaigns. And Edward Weevil, the self-proclaimed son of the late whitebeard and an extraordinarily powerful figure who was systematically eliminating his alleged father's former crew and allies in search of his fortune. And just like that, we had a full set of wallards once more. However, this would not last long, long at all. As Trafalgar Law formed an alliance with Monkey D Luffy in order to take down another of the wallards Dolphlamingo, essentially culminating in both of them being removed from their positions, and the rest of Dolphlamingo after his various grand crimes came to light. And so for quite some time in the series now, and still at the time of this recording, only five of the seven wallard positions are currently filled, and actually without getting into too many spoilers for the Reverie Arclas, just say the Butholmucuma status as of all it is, less tunable. However, whether or not new members will be recruited is subject to debate, as it has been implied by Admiral Fuji Torah that the legendary Doctor Vega punk has created something that has eliminated the need for their existence. Some more fun facts about the seven wallards. At one point during his career, the title of wallard was offered to port Gasti Ace, although he declined the position, which is the only known time in the series thus far that an offer has been refused. Upon becoming a wallard of the Sea, the world government officially freezes whatever bounty is currently assigned to that individual, removing a huge incentive to engage them in combat. In one piece, Colourwalk 7, Hattura Oda revealed that he originally intended Basil Hawkins, another member of the worst generation, to become a wallard of the Sea, but that idea was eventually scrapped. In the one piece anime special 3D 2Y, it was rather interestingly stated that the wallards of the Sea were established within the last 30 years of the current timeline. However, the special is not canon, and thus we should take that information with several thousand grains of salt. And finally, a truly useless fact. The seven wallards of the Sea were once parodied in the legendary series Gintama, labelled as the Chichi Bukai. And furthermore, that isn't even the only reference to the wallards of the Sea as seen in Gintama. But that pretty much does it for the seven wallards. If you enjoyed this video and the content this channel produced in general, then please do consider donating to the grandline review patreon because the support of all of your amazing people is what continues to make this channel possible. Also do check out my T-springs store if you're interested in shirts, hoodies and other miscellaneous items, but the proceeds going directly to support the channel as well. 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