During in his career, he also helped liberate an Indian village from some local tribal nuts who had decided to operate a mine in the style of a Victorian workhouse, and he stopped the Nazis trying to make off with the Holy Grail. The greatest fictional treasure hunter of our time, Professor Henry "Indiana" Jones, went out in search of and found the Ark of the Covenant, a golden chest that is said to hold two stones of the Ten Commandments. $393,900,000: the estimated annual wages spent on private military forces in the Uncharted games, based on the minimum estimated average salary of $150,000 for an experienced mercenary.
He earned immeasurable wealth before becoming a (let's be honest, Armada crushing aside, fairly average) military commander, and ultimately shat himself to death with dysentery. He was certainly a proud man, based on his own self-chosen motto, Sic Parvis Magna -"Thus great things from small things (come)." Drake was a self-made man who took great pleasure in plundering the Spanish and living a life of freedom on the seas in command of several hundred souls who were usually nothing but numbers to him. Was he a psychotic asshole? Not by most accounts we've seen in (British-focused) history, but there's plenty to dislike about his documented character. He then went on to be a military commander in the battle against the Spanish Armada in 1588. His 150-strong crew returned from only the second global circumnavigation in 1580, delivering riches to Good Queen Bess, reduced to a third of its original size. Sir Francis Drake, the greatest of seafarers according to the English and the most despised pirate according to the Spanish, sailed towards the Americas in search of loot and with an eye on colonization. That's not just fictional or mythical either. Wherever treasure lies, so does the trail of death.
Throughout the eons of entertainment, the two have gone hand in hand.
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