Rise of The Tides

It was a bright Sunday morning, the gulls singing and the sound of the waves agianst rocks filled the light morning air. A Ship no one had seen in a long time began to slowly pull up to the dock. The Albatross, Captian Aiden Hookbeak's ship, a ship in its prime. It glided into the port of Rancor perfectly as it always had. Crewed by people who had been fairing the sea for many years.

It was a ship of elvish making tall, long, slender, and agile, built for in and out runs. Long cannons were stationed all around the ship ready for an attack at all time. It was usual for a merchant vessal to always be ready for attacks. For many pirates roamed these waters and preyed on the innocent. The crew were made up of many races of people men and weman alike. It was said that a dwarf was the first mate well and elf was the captian.

As the ships ramp came down cheerful voices filled the walkway of the dock and the cargo of the ship was unloaded. It was a cargo of many things, silk, spices, cloths, vegetables, fruit, and most importantly gunpowder. It was being shipping in from Balsa a port on the Isle of Entris to the east.

The town of Rancor a little port town where cheer was the only thing you could hear and see. Where people fell in love with the soft spray of the sea and the harsh storms of the seasons. It was a small town with maybe a maximum of five hundred inhabitants, all living in peace and balance. The town usually wasn't disturbed by outsiders so it made the perfect haven for merchants to have their major opperations. Making this tiny town a center of trade and buisness, a cargo ships dream, because you could get a contract at almost all times of the year.

Captian Aiden had come here on buissness from an old friend north to drop this cargo, but he needed crew. For in a monsoon off reef of Trockia, over Santar's Trench, one of the most hospitable areas to ever exist. With constanly changing currents, sharp rocks hidden in the dark waters, and where the strongest of whirlpools would forum, he had lost half of his crew. The phenomenon which had happened in this place was something that would scare the life out of the living. A Typhoon had been whipped up out of the blue over the trench causing waves one fifty feet high and hurrican wind levels. It could only have been the work of dark magics.

Cpt. Aiden and his first mate Ox wandered into a local tavern The Lady Luck to buy a drink and set up their offer.

"I'll have a brandy." He said to the bartender and then her turned back to the rowdy crowd.

"Listen up people! I'm Captian Aiden Hookbeak. You may have heard of me, I saved this town from starving fourteen years ago and now I need able body men who are willing to work before the mast!" He cries to the crowd.

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Long ago before the wars of humans and orcs the world lived in harmony with the Naga. An amphibious race of people who resembled a cross of a snake with a man. Covered from head to toe with scales the color of coral, with the power to weild the magic of the sea. These people lived with the other creatures of the ocean in peace and harmony.

In the great gleeming cities of coral they did live, till war came in the form of man and orc. They crushed the coral cities and heeded not the words of the Naga as they desacrated the temples of their gods and slaughtered the people of this once happy race. They scattered the Naga to the four winds and sent them away banishing them to the depths of the ocean. So easy they thought what they had done was, but little did they know for what the Naga would do next. To turn back the tides and send the great islands of the Naga empire back to the sea from whense they had came. Then all was quiet for a time and as time moved on the monstrocities of this war faded from history, to legend, legend, to myth until all knowledge of this war had passed, and in scilence it did remain.

In the depths of the cold Sea of Agidan the Remenant Naga hold their might. In the ancient citidale of War`tun at the center of the ruins of Dandie they plot their decite of the world above and how their revenge can only come to reality should the Isles be raised. The High Preist of Sagri The Naga God of war did present his case before the Queen.

"We must raise the Islands! It is the only way, you must see that My Queen we have been going over it for hours," Entak pleed to his queen.

Sasharis sat upon her coral divian combing her hair and admiring her complextion. The divian was made of a special turqois coral she had gotten from the outer reaches, though the divian was made fo Coral she actually sat upon a cusion of sea cucumbers that would protect her with their lives. Anyone wo has tried to poison the queen had just made her pillows fluffye. The meeting was about the well being of her people and about the most tedious subject, The Islands. Entakcould go on and on about reasons to raise them and make war upon the humans, but now after twenty years of her listening to him she had finnally called fourth the Council. The Council was a selected group of high ranking officials scattered around mostly they decided and voted on the major decisions for the Remnant Naga Empire. Not all power was in the queens hands.

"Only time can tell our course Entak. Nothing is set in stone we msut wait for the rest of the council." She replied impatiently.

The doors to the council room opened and Eight Naga slitherd in, each taking their place on a coral throne.

"My queen I hope we have not kept you waiting for to long," Beshla said.

"You have kept me waiting not, for I was in a meeting already with Entak." She stated.

"Then let the meeting converge," Cradin Lord of the Outer reaches called.

"Agreed," Was the answer from all in the room.

Entak swam off his chair and landed at the podium claiming his right to speak first. This brought a strange expression to the faces of the other Council members, the High Priest had never spoken at a meeting before.

"I know that all of you have been thinking of this, the humans are moving. And we have no defenses, but you are wrong. We can act agianst them, but to act. We must raise the Ilses, we must reclaim the surface!" He roared to the council.

A great uproar issued with the other members of the council and their retinue on the balconies, arguments breaking forth that this was the wrong thing to do. That the humans knew nothing of the Naga.

"Silence!!!" Entak roared and all fell silent, "I have already spoken with the queen on this matter and she has agreed that our course of action must be to raise the islands, but we can not do that without the help of all our mages. They must be summoned and brought here to the capital."

"Why should we do this when we are already safe and sound in our palaces in the ocean depths?" Cluvonis Barron of Coral Valley inquired.

"I have already said that the humans are on the move."

"You may have said that but how do we know your word is true?"

"Silence!" The queen boomed a look of disgust spread across her face, " If you do not believe his word then you do not believe mine. He speaks for me and me alone."

"Then we will do what our queen asks up to. If not from duty but from love." The Lord Cluvonis said politely.

A crooked smile crossed Entaks face, everythign was playing right into his scaly green hands.

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If you decide that you want to join this roleplay their are going to be two distinct sides of which you may choose from. The Remenant Naga and The Albatorss's Crew.

For The Naga side they will accept any one who has the will and power to join their cause. So long as the person can survive under the waves and has the power to fight the enemy They will let them join. Orcs and Humans are teh exception which they will kill on sight, due to the memory of the First War.

Captian Aidens Crew: Will take on any one and I mean anyone, so long as they have the strength and will to fair the seas and all her bounty.


Places of Interest:

Humans

Rancor: A Port town where many merchants live and do buisness.

Balsa: A port town that rivals Rancor as the greatest merchant town to ever exist.

The Albatross: Captian Aiden's ship, an elvish ship that has survived since the Thrid war.

Lady Luck: A Local Inn in Rancor the port city. A favoured place for sailors to go and get drunk.

Remenant Naga

Dandie: Once the center of the ancient Naga empire now a ruin and shard of its former glory. It acts as the base for the Remenant Naga.

Temple of the Waves: A temple that has been lost in legend even to the Remenant Naga. The Temple was teh place where the hammer fall fell hardest in the great war. Of this moment it is the home of Senzar, Prince of the Sea Dragons.

Santars Trench: A bottemless trench that stretches for miles across the ocean floor. Home to many dangerous creatures and feirce currents.

Endans Island: A jungle island that holds many secrets.

Quest Givers, Important People & NPCs:

Humans:

Captian Aiden: Captian of the Albatross.

First Mate Ox: The Dwarf Blacksmith of the Albatross who has a fiery temper.

Sacri: The Witch doctor, enchanter and apothecary of CAptian Aidens ship. She hides inside a hidden room making potions and working enchatments to help the ship and crew.

Naga:

Entak High Priest: The High Priest of the Naga war god. One of the most ruthless villans to exist.

Beshla: The General of the Naga Armies.

Sashari: The Naga Queen, who holds almsot all the power.

The Members of the Naga High Council Are: Entak, Beshla, Cluvonis, Cradin, Slandin, Lankar, Frenquios, and Ariel.

I can't make a map because I don't have a scanner so I'll describe the lay out of the land.

To the south eastern side lays the island of Tenja with the port of Rancor. North by fifty miles is the island of Entris with Balsa. To the far west lies the trench of Santar and north east of their is the Naga islands that are submerged. Think of the part in the Night Elf campaign where they are shipwrecked on those islands. Those are the naga islands but in the center place another with the Temple of the Waves on it.

Thats the basic lay out.

OOC: This rp will be a sea fairing roleplay about hidden treasure, betrayal, old hatreds and war. I'll be happy for any one who wishes to join.