The Silver Raider Clan
Scourge of the Open Seas
Scourge of the Open Seas
Name: The Silver Raiders
Leaders: Lord Sarnoth Aquilan
Type: Pirate Clan
Stronghold Location: Silver Cove, located on an isolated island near Ceara
Location: They travel the Trade Lanes, preying on solitary merchant craft and out-of-the-way villages on several coastlines, and hitting the Trade craft of Ravnglade, Ceara, Illandria, Dragon Isle, Legaia and even far off Irongate.
Monetary unit: They use nearly anything of value from gold to magic to property.
Ethnicity/Race: Elves, humans, half-breeds, sea elves, sea trolls and other breeds of aquatic humanoids.
Language: Common, Elvish and a form of pirate cant.
Religion: No real worship, the pirates are dedicated to merely getting richer.
Climate: Temperate climate, they try to avoid Storms.
Resources: The pirates sell most of what they pillage through third-person middlemen in Ravnglade, Dragon Isle and Legaia. Many of the sailors, merchantmen and villagers they kidnap end up as slaves in dark cities.
Flora and Fauna: At the Silver Cove, there is your typical Tropical plant and animal life, with few natural predators. Aboard their ships, there is the accompanying sharks and dolphin schools that follow.
Known Dangers: The Silver Raiders are still unknown, due to their insistance on not allowing survivors to escape and their ingenious use of their unique ships. Because of this, they can be as dangerous as any threat on the open Seas.
History: The Silver Raiders were brought to Rosha in the midst of a Storm on the open Sea. Before their arrival here, they were the scourge of their world, single-handedly uniting the island nations of their Homeworld against them and their lethal ships. Lord Sarnoth Aquilan had, through unknown methods, enslaved the minds of several mammoth native water-beasts and used them as 'underwater' pirate ships. These beasts are similiar to whales, but have many natural defenses such as bone spurs and spines that are used to tear the bottom out of ships, prior to plunder. Lord Aquilan was in the process of gathering his pirate fleet when the Storm struck. When it passed, the pirates found themselves on a new world. Rosha, to be exact. Sarnoth spent a few weeks learning what he could and determined he had no way home again. A realist, Lord Aquilan has decided to make himself a power here, instead. The Silver Raiders travel the Sea of the Serpent, the Sea of Mists, the Raging Waters, the Savage Sea near Serth, and even far off Kadan Bay, watching and waiting for solitary prey and weak fishing villages to plunder.
