To understand Wilfredo Guzman, one also has to understand the Spain of the early 17th century. Despite the wealth of silver and gold crossing the Atlantic into royal coffers, Spain was a nation in significant debt, having taken on significant loans to pursue wars against both the English and Dutch. Though the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) bolstered Spanish confidence in their armies, the Castilian economy essentially collapsed under the weight of its debt in 1627. Many portions of the army (and navy) were forced to pay themselves, as tax collection was fruitless and the Spanish armies too far flung.
Here, we can see where Guzman fits. A Spanish naval officer by diction and evident training, he likely found himself without the means to maintain his ship or pay for his crew. Accordingly, driven by a bitterness that we can only speculate upon, he and his ship went rogue, turned to piracy, and began to raid Spain’s own treasure fleets. As has been extracted from Guzman’s own log, he was “taking his due” – payment for service that he had given the crown, but that the crown had refused to pay for.
Originally sailing in the 17th century, the Inferno was eventually involved in a pirate-English war.
The Spanish, seeing Willie holed up in a cave on a distant and savage shore, saw a better solution than sinking the Inferno. They merely blew up the cave, collapsing it on top of him, and left him for dead.
Fate, though, had spared the ship actual damage. Guzman and his mutinous crew were simply trapped. This is where the legend really takes off. Long has it been supposed that One-Eyed Willy and his crew spent years thusly entombed, burrowing like moles in the earth. This, however, seems unlikely given the state of their provision and the onset of winter a few months after their capture. Likely, the actual story is more compact. The natural cave systems surrounding ‘Willie’s Inlet’ would have already been intact and escape would have been a mere matter of exploration and the occasional application of gunpowder (a substance they had no lack of).
Hundreds of years later, the Goonies set off with One-Eyed Willy’s map to find his treasure. After narrowly escaping his booby traps, they discovered the ship still intact and seaworthy, along with the precious treasure and deceased crew aboard. When the Fratellis clumsily took some of the treasure they set off a booby trapped scale that causes the cavern to collapse and frees the ship. The Inferno is last seen sailing adrift in the Pacific Ocean.
The Inferno has since gone missing and it’s location is no longer for sale. Upon locating the ship once again we will relist its location for sale and its vast treasures within. We are not responsible for any injury’s due to travel or Boobytraps within the ship. Ships contents estimated at 1.2 Billion