Estwatch
Estwatch is a small island not technically under any jurisdiction but desired by many nations and city-states for its strategic position. It is currently under control of the Felicisima Armada, which has turned it into a notoriously lawless port.
The nearby Free Marches states of Kirkwall, Starkhaven, and Hercinia have all tried and failed to claim the valuable land.
History
The Tevinter Imperium first settled this island long ago. The Imperium fortified the largest natural bay on the island with a defensive wall and used the island as a facility to repair warships during military campaigns and slaving ventures against the Alamarri.
The time until the First Exalted March saw heavy usage of the island, but the turmoil in the Imperium when the march began halted Imperial naval activity in the Waking Sea. The island was essentially abandoned shortly before Andraste's army reached the island and claimed it as their own.
It went unused for several years, and eventually those few who had conquered it left. Coupled with the island's emptiness and debris from shipwrecks littering its coast, Free Marchers started believing that the island was haunted or cursed.
Eventually, it was taken over by some unnamed mercenary group. Supposedly, the group had found a dragon living on the island and were able to chain it up and use it as a weapon against any who dared to go near the island. It is also believed that these mercenaries fled the Free Marches because they were cannibals.
Eventually, the Felicisima Armada sailed to the island and took over ownership of it. According to reports, only crazed island-dwellers remained on the island when the Armada arrived. These dwellers could hardly have even been called human, if they ever even were. The Armada killed the crazed natives and claimed the land for themselves.
Tourism
Since taking the island for themselves, a town called Little Llomerryn was built, as a nod to the nearby Llomerryn.
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