Yes Black Sails has a large ensemble cast but actually it's very simple. You see, Max is Eleanor, and Eleanor is almost Max but is actually more like Flint just in the opposite direction. Flint, meanwhile, is Rogers, except for the times when Jack is Rogers. Teach, Vane, and Jack are sort of all one another, unless of course you ask Hands, who would tell you that they're all Silver. Anne is emphatically not Max but is frequently forced to be. Madi is Flint but Flint has to work at being Madi. Miranda is also Eleanor, but only sometimes, and never at the same time. Billy Bones is whoever he hates most at any given moment, and also an omen. Silver, of course, isn't anybody at all, and is also the only one of them who isn't a ghost. Easy.