A craggy island town clinging to a sheltered bay, its harbor ringed by warehouses and taverns, dominated by a basalt bastion where pirate families live openly under an uneasy truce with civic authorities and the distant mountain peaks watch like silent wardens.
Where the basalt meets the tide and bargains are sealed with salt and steel.
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Magistrate
A sharp-eyed magistrate who prefers paperwork and shrewd bargains to open force.
Harbormaster
A broad-shouldered man known for balancing manifests and favors with equal skill.
Bastion Captain
A charismatic sea-warden who divides plunder with ruthless fairness and keeps her own counsel.
High Priest
A gentle priest with hands salted by work and prayer, always ready with a small blessing.
Master Smith
A stocky dwarf with iron-smudged hands and a booming laugh that scares timid apprentices away.
Innkeeper and information broker
A quick-witted tiefling who runs the Salted Compass and moves information like coin.
Smithy
A heavy-smoke forge with racks of harpoons, anchors, and battered blades suited to sea work.
Outfitter
A cramped outfitter overflowing with coils of rope, charts, and jars of preserved water.
Rough sailors, Bastion captains, and information brokers who prefer dim light.
A low-ceilinged tavern where maps hang over the hearth and deals are struck in corners.
Local craftsfolk, weary mariners, and traveling merchants who prefer brighter company.
A sturdier alehouse with long benches and a view of the mountains on clear days.
Pirate confederation
An organized confederation of Bastion captains who answer to local codes and divide plunder by tradition.
Civic authority
A civic body of merchants, magistrates, and shipowners managing port fees and trade rights.
Trade guild
Guild of shipmasters, carpenters, and longshoremen that certifies captains and negotiates wages.
Religious order
A compact order tending to seafarers' rites and the temple’s charitable stores, influential at festivals.
A tide-gouged cove strewn with glass and carved bone where wreckers trade in secrets.
A mile-long wooden breakwater patched with foreign planks and old flags from captured ships.
A salt-bleached amphitheatre of ropes and spars used for fights, plays, and public bargains.
A narrow cleft in the northern reef rumored to hide smugglers' caverns reachable only at certain tides.
The lighthouse keeper records clandestine arrivals and has been selling manifests to a foreign fleet.
A sealed cavern beneath the Whale's Whisper hides a sleeping egg of a sea wyrm that would redraw naval power if claimed.
Magistrate Isla Corven accepted secret loans from Bastion captains to rebuild critical wharves.
The Bastion once helped a mainland noble escape and keeps his token as a bargaining chip.
A sleeping sea-wyrm egg lies beneath the inner harbor's deepest shelf and awakens to bright bells.
The lighthouse keeper keeps a ledger that can ruin several merchants if revealed.
The Ledger Beneath the Light
Recover a ledger that proves the Bastion accepted foreign coin to target a rival town's convoys.
Ambush on the Hidden Reef
Close a reef-side smugglers' cave used to ambush supply ships that recently sank a Council sloop.
Procession of Salt and Stone
Escort a fragile relic to the Temple of the Tidal Mother during festival chaos as rival factions try to claim it.
Wreck of the Pale Keel
Find the wrecked ship's captain who washed ashore with a map that could unearth a sleeping sea-wyrm egg.
