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==Mockridge's Mistake: The Seafolk's Revenge Year 660==
Sailors return from voyages telling drunken tales of half-fish, half-man creatures living in the oceans. Most of these tales are regarded as drunken fabrications or the result of too much sun at sea. An intrigued researcher, '''Adrian Mockridge''', takes to the water aboard a '''Cornian''' vessel to discover the truth, and he returns with a captive '''Mermaid''', which garners him much fame and prestige, but at a cost.

Originally the '''Merfolk''' had been largely benign: curious, even, at the manner and culture of the land-dwellers. But the imprisonment of one of their own, and the subsequent death that followed ('''Mockridge''' had failed to correctly accommodate his prize) turned formerly magical meetings into deadly ambushes at sea.

Still, the '''Merfolk''' held a fondness for goods and valuables carried by land-dweller vessels, and so a few splinter groups, the '''Sea Reavers''', begin raiding ships that venture too far from the protection of a coastal navy, either capsizing smaller skiffs or knocking out the spigots and seacocks of larger vessels from below. The most feared of the '''Sea Reaver''' captains, '''Cezanne Stormfin''', even managed to sink a '''Fenmark Wavecutter''' carrying several powerful magical items to an undisclosed location, presumably a previously unknown island.