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Seven Warlords of the Sea
Extracted from the Wikipedia article World Government (One Piece).
Seven Warlords of the Sea
The Seven Warlords of the Sea (七武海, Shichibukai), the full title being The Royal Seven Warlords of the Sea (王下七武海, Ōka Shichibukai), was a group of seven powerful pirates who are granted legal leniency to do as they please by the World Government and have their bounties void in exchange for a fraction of their loot and defeating weaker pirates, who deride them for selling out. The Seven Warlords are loosely based on the European privateers, government-endorsed pirates considered heroes in their homeland and pillagers in others.