Roger Pirates

Gol D. Roger, the late Pirate King, led this band, and it stands as the one crew ever confirmed to sail the Grand Line from end to end, arriving at its final island, Laugh Tale. Their voyages spanned close to three decades and touched shores stretching from Skypiea across to Wano Country, all while they carried on rivalries with Vice Admiral Monkey D. Garp of the Marines, with the Whitebeard Pirates under Edward Newgate, and with the older crew Newgate once belonged to under Rocks D. Xebec. Even after the execution of their captain, that fame clung to survivors like first mate Silvers Rayleigh and the navigator Scopper Gaban, plus the one-time cabin boys Shanks and Buggy. Apart from the captain and first mate, individual members filled set jobs, several of them tuned toward gathering information, including a doctor, a helmsman, an interrogator, a scholar, and an intelligence officer.

Since their leader bore the title of Pirate King, they counted among the mightiest bands ever to sail, the sole crew to master the Grand Line by tracking down every one of the four Road Poneglyphs. Recruiting Kouzuki Oden let them read those ancient stones, so the crew joined the handful of people who learned the buried truth of the world, along with what the D. in the name signifies and what happened during the century lost to history. In combat they held the Whitebeard Pirates to a draw across four days and, though heavily outnumbered, stood even against the Golden Lion Pirates during the Battle of Edd War. Decades on, the aging survivors stay dangerous: Rayleigh once traded blows on equal footing with Admiral Kizaru, while Gaban, whom many called the Pirate King's Left Arm, could press an Emperor such as Luffy without exerting himself and felled a Knight of God without trouble.

Gol D. Roger led from the deck of the Oro Jackson, a vessel the master shipwright Tom crafted using timber from the Treasure Tree Adam. Silvers Rayleigh held the first mate's post and now coats ships on the Sabaody Archipelago, while the celebrated navigator Scopper Gaban retired to Elbaph. Crocus, the crew's doctor, went back to Reverse Mountain to look after Laboon, and Kouzuki Oden, brought aboard to decipher the Poneglyphs, returned to Wano before his later death. The apprentices Shanks and Buggy each founded crews of their own and ultimately reached the Four Emperors, so along with the Rocks Pirates this is one of only two bands to yield more than one Emperor.