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Didn't Pirate not even exist back in the original battle against the Black Mage?

I thought Heroes were the original people that fought the Black Mage in the past.

I guess pirates wouldn't have existed yet way back in the day considering they started after the black mage went kablooey. iirc they were started in order to hunt the black mages's underlings/the people who want to revive him. So it makes sense that there is no "pirate hero". Perhaps in the future we'll have the "Pirate King" who is the father of all pirates who began the hunt for the black wings organization.

otherwise, he'd have to be the "Green Ranger" of the Heroes, coming in at the last second to provide a barrier to the curse or something.

EDIT: So I went back to the google and found the old comics from Pirate release way back in the day. Testonen is credited with being the original Pirate and Kyrin seems to have discvered how to BE a pirate by herself (unless she met up with her father somewhere in the mapleworld to learn), Pirates techncally didn't exist as a class until kyrin came to Vic Island, but there's nothing to say that pirates didn't exist before then. We know that Testonen was alive during the black mage's time and that he fought with the black mage and his armies, but we don't know how he died. Hell, he could have fought the black mage when Demonslayer was still a loyal general. Technically we could have Testonen as a hero if he was defeated in a similar manner to the 5 heroes- frozen in time.