Captain's Log -- Important Information, Plot Info

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Captain's Log -- Important Information, Plot Info

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Captain's Log -- Important Information, Plot Info

Post by Vardaen » Mon Mar 11, 2019 3:09 pm

Mancatcher Cove Information

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The woman's body is given a more detailed inspection.

The map tattooed on the Isabella Locke’s back depicts the outlines of several small islands. A stylized half sun sits to the right of the islands, while simple images of a monstrous eye and the face of an aged, bearded king are to the left. Beneath the map are five lines of crude verse:
From blue bight’s embrace
Spy the Grave Lady’s prize tooth
With the Dawnflower’s first kiss
Climb the Captain’s wayward orb
To claim old king’s hoard

Gragol and Rod lean over, looking at the map itself first, they debate possible locations, islands, and places in the Shackles that might match the images of the tattooed lands. Both seem to come to some conclusion, cross referencing on a map Agasta has. It seems to be an unnamed archipelago in the Shackles north of the Ushinawa Isles and west of Besmara’s Throne. Its about 110 miles northwest of Tidewater Rock, as the albatross flies, but will likely have to sail a bit farther through the numerous atolls and archipelagos of the southern Shackles if you were to go there.

Toruk is busy looking at the rest of the items on the map, "This monstrous eye could represent the Beast of Mancatcher Cove, and the sun could be a sunrise or a sunset I suppose."

Maggie chimes in reading parts of the verse, "And the “Grave Lady” is the goddess of death, Pharasma, also known as the Lady of Graves. Not to mention “Dawnflower’s first kiss” could refers to the goddess of the sun, Sarenrae, called the Dawnflower,"


Kroop gives a long whistle, "Well, Ibe damn, this 'ere be a map ta Cyrus Wolfe's fabled hidd'n treasure!"

The Tale Captian Cyrus Wolfe

The Free Captains are the most obvious menace of that maze of hell-cursed waterways and a thousand perilous isles and knife-edged reefs called the Shackles, but they are not its only danger, nor the worst. Nearly a century ago, Free Captain Cyrus Wolfe, a black-hearted rogue with an even blacker gift for the dark arts, plied the waters off the western coast of Garund and brought fear to hundreds of ship’s captains and crews. His daring daylight raid on the fortified Thuvian port of Aspenthar directly under the nose of that city-state’s admiralty left a dozen of the principality’s warships in flames and over a hundred of its citizens carried off as captives for ransom. For that grand audacity, Wolfe was offered the Hurricane Crown by his fellow Free Captains, but it is said that he simply laughed in their faces.

After 3 decades of terrorizing the shipping lanes, Captain Wolfe made his biggest haul ever when he surprised a convoy of Katapeshi treasure ships returning from secret mine holdings on the coast of southern Garund. It is believed that Wolfe divided up his treasure and hid it in several different sites, but the locations of most of them have been lost to time. However, one name has stayed at the forefront of maritime legend as the location of his spoils—Mancatcher Cove.

To dispose of the most valuable portion of his plunder, Captain Wolfe selected an uncharted island somewhere in the Shackles—an island shrouded in dense jungle and surrounded by forbidding cliffs save for one cove said to be so deep that it descended all the way to the pits of Hell. There Wolfe hid his treasure, reputedly using his sorcerous powers to reach down into the very heart of Hell to summon forth a guardian beast to crush any ships that dared anchor in the cove. Before departing, Captain Wolfe made a map of the island and the location of his treasure.

However, less than a year later he was captured by a flotilla of ships commissioned by the queen of Aspenthar and the Pactmasters of Katapesh. Even under torture, Wolfe refused to divulge the location of his ill-gotten treasure, and so he was hung from a gibbet over the harbor of Aspenthar, where his bones were picked clean by gulls and crows as a warning to others.

Since then many of Captain Wolfe’s treasure troves have been located and looted, and copies of his map of Mancatcher Cove have likewise managed to find their way into the hands of fortune seekers. However, unlike at Wolfe’s other caches that were looted, those few ships that came to Mancatcher Cove in search of the fabled treasure were never seen again—victims, it was whispered, of the Beast of Mancatcher Cove. In time, the last few copies of Wolfe’s map were lost, and the hunt for the greatest hoard of Captain Wolfe’s treasure subsided, leaving little more than an old sea dog’s legend.
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Re: Captain's Log -- Important Information, Plot Info

Post by Vardaen » Mon Jan 27, 2020 6:56 pm

More Rumors and Treasures (See Above For More)
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Re: Captain's Log -- Important Information, Plot Info

Post by Vardaen » Mon Jul 13, 2020 7:20 pm

Rumors of treasures found in Port Peril
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