Brothers of Fortune

During the course of a single day in 1569, Patik's and Meno's lives transformed from a routine of poverty and convention to lives filled with promise and adventure. On that day, a datu's grandson killed their family and stole their land, and also on that day, Spanish explorer Miguel Lopez de Legaspi arrived in Panay.

In the years that followed, Patik signed onto a Chinese junk where he forged a hardened work ethic that took him all the way to becoming the region's most powerful mariner and t...