Flagpyre
I can't tell you. I promise to you, I would if I could, so you might as well just cut out my tongue now cause it's not not going to do you or I any good-!
-Transcript of interrogation of prisoner #246456451
Nothing but a haven for pirates, plain and simple. Both the air and sea variety. Its location is a carefully guarded secret by the miscreants that call it home, with all that enter it forced to enter a magically binding contract that prevents them from speaking of it to anyone who hasn't taken the same binding oath. Those who find their way to Flagpyre aren't your average pirates either, but those who have bought into a particular ideology. One that states their 'freedom' is bought by their plundering ways. They are, of course, motivated by money, and the goods that money provides, but they maintain an air of legitimacy for themselves if no one else. Most of the legitimate governments of the world would see them wiped out, if they had the time and resources, but as it stands the concentration of pirates is too high and too remote to make the effort with it. For now, they begrudgingly maintain 'embassies' on the structure, which are staffed by men who have taken the oath of secrecy, where nations can purchase their cargo back from pirates for what is a modest price. They don't like doing this, but it's currently the best option that they have and has the added benefit of keeping the price down across much of the blood. There is a rivalry between sea and air pirates, that is generally joking in it's feeling and operation, but it would not take much to cause it to become fighting and 'civil' strife.
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