Editing Thousand Cities:West (section)

===Port Piresh===
:Those that believe the Western Pirates to be simple savages are mistaken, for the majority of their black-sailed vessels operate out of Port Piresh, on the Isle of the Bloodied Maw. Each ship is accompanied by a red-clad priest from the Pireshi temple, entrusted with the task of reading Herneia's omens and making sacrifices to keep Her favour.

:Port Piresh is lavishly decorated with plunder from throughout the Thousand Cities, but outside its temples the city is wild and undisciplined. The Pirate Port is infamous throughout Creation for its debauched and depraved habits, and for the great Slave Markets held in the Eastern Quarter. Here, captives from the pirate raids are sold like cattle to buyers from the Guild and the southern cities.

:Each year, ships return to Port Piresh in the week prior to Calibration. After a week of feasting and sacrifices, the Calibration Tide brings a great tsunami in from the far West. The pirate vessels are launched into this wave, riding it East to unleash a new cycle of plunder on the shipping routes of the Central region.

:The Pireshi are deeply superstitious, refusing to launch ships from sunset to sunrise for fear that they will sail into the underworld. When a ship begins its voyage, the captain tastes the water for salt to confirm that their bearing leads away from the dead. If the ship launches safely, its captain will raid the waves for a full year before returning home to port.



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