The Drowned
The Drowned, a faction of pirates, criminals, and renegades, are a group that spark fear and anger across Elix and the Shattered Continent. These pirates occupy Crescent Island, an abandoned Tierysian military sea fortress in the icy waters of the northern Teal Ocean. The island is located about halfway between Elix and the Shattered Continent, and north of the Old Eminence, where the waters freeze from the sheer frigid temperatures. However, while the waters would normally freeze year-round, an old remnant of the Tierysian Empire, an artifact, grants control over the immediate area’s climate to the Drowned. Rumored to be an expertly cut ruby, the size of a house and inlaid with sequences of runes and glyphs, this artifact sits deep within the heavily fortified fortress of Ebonmark Hold. Activating such a device, emits a constant wave of heat, which provides a habitable environment for the denizens of the island while simultaneously melting the thick ice around such, allowing for the free movement of naval vessels.
Such a device has allowed the Drowned a safe haven by which to launch their armada of vessels to engage in piracy of trade routes up and down the coasts of both continents. While many nations have rallied attempts to end the threat of the Drowned permanently, they have always retreated to their island and allowed the ices to consume any encroaching vessels while those of island wait out any doomed siege, surviving off massive stockpiles of pirated goods. Beyond their actions of piracy and theft, relatively little is known of this antagonistic faction.
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