great start! I think your dialogue could be more casual (especially since they're sailors) but you seem to know your way around the setting. good luck!

I liked this first chapter, but I didn't exactly feel captured by it. Important tip: As a writer, you don't -always- have to share what you know about your characters with your audience.

(Just my opinion, don't take it as an insult or anything) I think the story could have had a better hook if you'd started from the moment Rowan woke up on the ship. That already raises so many questions in the reader's minds and they're instantly drawn in, hungry for more. You didn't have to tell us how he was found or any of that. His discovery could be subtley explained during a meal or meeting with the men who found him or the people tending to him, etc.

Besides that, I like the way you write. Your style is simple, yet effective and it has a nice quality that keeps the pacing quick. Plus, I wanna know what happens to Rowan and the "Orla" and...what the heck is an Avenger?

Anyway, really interesting story and it has the potential to be a great swashbuckling adventure. Or high-seas romance. Or...wherever you're taking this story. XD

Update soon!

Kudos and good luck,

Steve :)

OMG I totally already love this story!

It sounds like it's going to packed with adventure, and I'm already intrigued by your characters.

Update soon please :)!