The Eight Warlords of the Sea

Eight Warlords (Pre Straud+Roxx)

The **Eight Warlords of the Sea** are pirates that aren't hunted by the World Government in return for their servitude, but it's not unheard of for a Warlord to abuse this privilege by working against the World Government secretly. The Eight Warlords are usually dangerous pirates with high bounties that were frozen when they joined. The lower a frozen bounty is, the more the World Government saw them as a threat that could develop later on.

## Overview

The Eight Warlords of the Sea are eight extremely powerful Pirate Captains who entered into the service of the World Government. The purpose of the Eight Warlords is to have the pirates deal with other pirates. They are also a great symbol of the government's strength. In return for their alliance with the World Government, every member's bounty was frozen, and they have significantly more leeway to commit crimes.

Although they worked for the World Government, the Eight Warlords themselves typically did not care about nor respect the Government (excluding Former Warlord Dogtooth, who later on became a marine & **Shitty Fishery**) or even the other Warlords and were often considered by the Marines to be no different from any other pirate. On the other hand, they were known at large as "government dogs" and despised by other pirates but were still feared and respected for their infamous reputation and strength which they gained before, and even after they became Warlords.

The Eight Warlords seemed to be a balance between the chaotic Four Emperors and the orderly Marines. The majority of the Warlords are composed of New World veterans, those who have met the Emperors or even fought against them.

### Contribution

The Eight Warlords were and still are a significant and crucial part of the government's strength.

The government have made it a point to only select exceptionally strong pirates to be offered the Warlord position. Some of the Warlords had bounties of well over ฿100,000,000. However, there was an enormous range in the bounties between the members due to differences in circumstances under which they were recruited, with **Dogtooth**, who had a bounty of less than ฿100,000,000 and **Marilyln**, who had no bounty at all at the time.

It should be noted that these are their former bounties, and do not represent the current threat they could achieve as active pirates. Spartan's bounty, for example, jumped from ฿200,000,000 to ฿470,000,000 after his resignation. Another example is **White Death**, who, with a bounty of ฿97,000,000 at the time, was imprisoned in Level 6 of Impel Down, while Kain with a bounty of ฿210,000,000 at the time was only imprisoned on Level 4

.Some of the Warlords possess extremely powerful Devil Fruit powers. Some have powers that were borderline impossible to win against without proper knowledge of them, such as **Straud's** ability of immortallity or **Nebula's** ability to control the **Digital World**. Others have powers that could cause massive levels of destruction, even to the point of destroying an entire country, such as *former warlord* **White Death's** power to create a powerful blizzards and change the climate of an island permanently, or **Jolliaster**'s power to manipulate a massive amount of Gold into whatever he seems fit to use it as..

Other Warlords are exceptionally powerful combatants, even without Devil Fruits. Mihawk is known as the world's greatest swordsman and wields one of the 12 Supreme swords, Yoru. **Spartan** is viewed as one of the world's strongest giants; boasting huge raw power.

While he was still a Warlord, Dogtooth's allegiance to the World Government served as a symbol of the warlord having a diveristy quota. (As he was the only none humanoid on at the time.).

### **Relation Between Warlords**

The terms that the Warlords were on with each other is best described as very unstable. They have very little (if any) respect for each other and will for the most part does not accept help from one another, apparently due to a firm sense of pride. Even willing to go so far as Clash with one another (**Such as Spartan and White Death**). it has been stated before that the very notion of them working together as a team is entirely unthinkable. However,a few of them do not disregard the notion of allying with another Warlord of the Sea: **Such as** Plague's working relationship with **Marilyin** resulting in the birth of her Puppet made entirely of devil fruit created poison known as **Toxin.** Nonetheless, there are occasions that will compel the Warlords to temporarily cooperate such as **Shitty Fishery** offering **Jolliaster** sancturary after his brutal clash with **"God Hand"** at the Oasis.

## Members

*See also the associated categories: Shichibukai, Former Shichibukai*

## Candidates

There have been other pirates who have been selected to become Warlords but did not receive membership for one reason or another.

* **Durwin Zen** was invited to join the Shichibukai but turned it down for an unknown reason.
* **Noah** was invited to be apart of the Shichibukai after the Oasis Incident prior to them choosing Straud, due to his powerful devil fruit and his history. However Noah told them to go fuck themselves.
* **Tamme** has been considered as a Candiate for Warlord after Marineford to replace Dogtooth; however **He allied with Wabi Wabo,** thus loosing the postiion before he had a chance to recieve the membership.

## Becoming a Warlord of the Sea

A pirate could choose to join the Seven Warlords of the Sea if a space became vacant (which means that at least one Warlord must resign or be expelled from the group, the former being **Plague's** case and the latter being **White Death's** case). However, in order for one to have become a Warlord once this position opened up, one must have been able to exhibit their strength against other pirates while choosing to pledge loyalty to the World Government (this ironically encourages pirates to gain infamy to become a Warlord) by making a pact with the Five Elders. If the pirate in question could be used as intimidation, the position may be offered to them, if no other pirate has accepted the position or proven to be more of an asset to the World Government.

As expected, most members were already notorious pirates with high bounties, but even relatively unknown pirates could have been admitted if they accomplish a feat to prove their strength. **Marilyn's** obtaining and sending a puppet corpse of **Kaido & Shiki** and **Jolliaster** obtaining and sending the statues of 100 dead pirates incased in Gold to Marine Headquarters are examples. The World Government can also be extorted by pirates into offering the prestigious status. This was demonstrated by a previous warlord of the past known as **Donquixote Doflamingo**, when he ransomed the heavenly tribute meant for the World Nobles to be appointed to a vacant position.

Some cases also happened such as **Straud**, **Spartan**, and **Durwin**, who were offered a position in the organization when the World Government's Carrier Bat sent a letter to their location and the pirates reply by coming to Marine Headquarters as a sign of accepting the invitation or declining the offer. According to rumour, refusing to accept the invitation would cause the chosen pirate's bounty to rise even higher.

### Duties and Responsiblities

They are not allowed to express open defiance to the authority of the World Government but were not obligated to follow its orders either. They are technically only allowed to attack other pirates and must also compensate the Government with a portion of their plunder, although this regulation is not followed most of the time. Each member of the Eight Warlords must also have had strong intimidation skills and a fearsome image to put off others becoming a pirate and make them fear them. In addition, given the discussion between Shitty Fishery and the Five Elders, it could be assumed that once someone becomes appointed to the Seven Warlords of the Sea they must be undefeated to maintain their position, or at least are not allowed to have a widely known debacle or scandal that affects their reputation.

Some of the members dl various tasks for the government, such as conquering new islands for the World Government (described as "liberating") and protecting nations, but their ultimate purpose was to keep other pirates in check. Most importantly, the Eight Warlords provided assistance to maintain the balance of The Four Great Powers.

### Benefits and Concessions

In exchange for these services, the Eight Warlords were pardoned for their former actions and any existing bounties were rescinded.

The **Enemy Ship Capture Warrant** (敵船拿捕許可状 *Tekisen Daho Kyoka-jō*?) allowed Warlords to legally plunder other pirates and uncivilized lands (most likely referring to countries not affiliated with the World Government), so long as they gave a portion of their loot to the Government.

As the Eight Warlords were no longer outlaws, they could have made money through legitimate business, as well as bounty hunting. Some, however, were content to simply float around the sea on their ships. The government did not seem to mind, and the Eight Warlords were granted a great deal of autonomy in how they operated. Other benefits included access to resources normally out of bounds to normal citizens and pirates, such as the use of Seastone equipment.

**Spartan**, in particular, had a treaty that acts as a restraining order for all **Marine Ships** that dared to come near **Deadbron Reef**. **Keerg** was given a pardon for his crimes, and released from **Impel Down**. **White Death** also managed to operate **A Child Slavery Bussiness using the Hobi Hobi no Mi** with the government fully ignoring before they discovered it was CHILDERN involved and not adults. Jolliaster also utilizes the perks of his position to run **The College of the Golden Jester**, a "perfectly innocent college"

The privilege of protection and pardon extended to any of the Warlord's subordinates,