Probably so, unless you assume she looks very swedish like...which all depends on how you view women in sweden in this time frame.


As far as pirating I know alot of people want the feature where you can pirate trade fleets (privateering basically) of other factions.

CA has mentioned this is in the game in some form, though whether this is just bribing pirates to attack or giving your units a letter of marque or something I dunno.