Fairwind Coast and Shining White

Fairwind Coast is a shallow bay of white sands, which is a haven of respite along this dangerous coast. Fairwind Bay often has dolphins, selkies, and a few aquatic elves in its waters. The elves avoid people not from Shining White, and they are said to sink smuggling vessels. They are also spies, and supply Shining White with information on what they have learned from the seas and the scrying of their priestess of Deep Sashelas, who is said to know all that happens below the waters of Relmor Bay.

Shining White itself is a stone castle standing a mile or so from the cliffline, with a central tower keep of pure white stone topped with glowing lances bearing continual light spells. The castle liege is the paladin Farenne of Pholtus, and in her name series of continual light beacons act as lighthouses for a 25 mile stretch of coastline within the lands Farenne administers.

Farenne is a highly unusual paladin for one following her inflexible deity. She is kindly, wise, and tolerant of all but intelligent and. scheming evil. She believes a true follower of Pholtus should lead and inspire by the life they live, and she lives humbly and in spartan personal surroundings. She loathes the Valorous League of Blindness, and has run a group of "those heretics" off her lands.

Within Shining White, Farenne's 80 elite castle militia and friends are deeply loyal to her. Her friends include a half-elven bard, and a ranger from Wragby, who knows the coastline better than any other person.

Farenne is bitter towards her king. She feels he understands nothing of the problems of ordinary people and nor does he see the evils rotting away Nyrond from within. Farenne flatly refuses to pay tithes and taxes to Archbold, and she works towards alliances with other lawful good nobles and rulers. From the castle, her folding boat (which is the size of a small caravel) sets out by night to frustrate smugglers and slavers. She delivers such people to the justice of the authorities in Wragby, whose ruler she trusts. Her bowl commanding water elementals, employed by the half-elven mage Schuster, is a fearsome threat to the sea-borne slavers and pirates and they avoid Fairwind Bay.