The Sea Taketh

Last time on The Sea Taketh — the party stormed the Drowned Spire, the Pale Sereph's island stronghold, and tore it apart from the inside. The chest that has haunted them since Session 1 opened on its own at the apex, revealing not a weapon or a treasure but a cartograph — a sea chart marking every ship sunk in the Shattered Sea, and the name of the god responsible. The Pale Sereph was destroyed, Blackwater surrendered, and Governor Crowe fled by frigate into open water — but not before seeing exactly what the party now holds.

What started as a stolen manifest and a bar fight in Port Morrow has unraveled into something far larger than piracy or politics — someone, or something, has been deliberately sinking ships in the Shattered Sea for a century, and the party now holds the only document that proves it. The Pale Sereph is gone, but the god named on that cartograph is not, and Governor Crowe is still alive, still connected, and now knows the party has the chart. The Wailing Mare is crewed by five people sitting on the most dangerous piece of information in the known sea, with a fleeing governor, a surrendered war captain, and a pirate ally who all want something from them. The endgame has begun — the question is who moves first.