commandermardukas:

Gol D. Roger’s execution may have been one of the “great cleansing”. Only being a king himself, he turned it into a new era and the Pirate Age begun. At his execution he created a worldwide disturbance and shaken the balance that those at the top are so obsessed with. He made the world search for something – for wealth, for freedom, for an answer. That is his answer to whatever they’ve found in Raftel. That is also his answer to the power holding the empty throne. Instead of being “cleansed” he made a history never to be forgotten. And his name and legacy lives on.