Swearing in The Duke and The Pirate Queen

This post was inspired by an essay on swearing in romance novels over at Alpha Heroes.



I thought a lot about the way my characters in The Duke & the Pirate Queen would swear. The book is set in a fantasy world that is not dominated by Christianity; more than that, I'd gone out of my way to avoid mentioning religion at all. Also, I wanted the swearing to be part of the worldbuilding.

All the cursing/swearing I can think of is religious, sexual, or scatological. I'd thought about...