Stromling Admirals, originally known as Dark Admirals, are ambitious Stromling Pirates obsessed with the darker possibilities of Imagination. They possess anchors and cannons for hands. Stromling Admirals were once among the best men in Captain Jack Knife's crew of Pirates in Gnarled Forest. When the Pirates stockpiled Maelstrom Crystals under the mistaken belief that they were treasure, the Kraken attacked the Black Seas Barracuda and threw it into a tree. Jack Knife and his pirates quickly moved the Infected Treasure Chests inland, but not before the Maelstrom corrupted most of his crew into Stromling Pirates and Admirals.