Carpe Demon

"Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers," Drake said. Like he would pass up a chance to plug a book. "Great book; the library has copies, you should give it a read. The musketeers were the personal guard of the 17th century French kings. They used swords your sire here would probably laugh at, but they had early guns, too." He looked over to Arthur and grinned. "Sorry, the pirates are the good guys in the book we're going over. Unjustly imprisoned, revenge on the tyrant who sits on the English throne...er, way after your time, of course."