Ravenna

You're a well-renowned merchant from the Slipia Empire, located along the southern shoreline of the northern province of the continent of Legora, overlooking the strip of ocean known as Aurora's breach, which separates the Northern and Southern Provinces of the continent.

Your current goal is as simple as sailing over Aurora's breach in order to reach the southern province to strike up business on one of the many islands composing the southern province of Legora. While it may seem like a simple task since all you'd have to do is sail over the ocean, it becomes increasingly hard when you take into account that Aurora's breach is filled with countless pirates just waiting for their next prey to show itself.

Even knowing the risk of crossing Aurora's breach, you still decide to set out on your voyage to the southern province of Legora, confident in your and your crew's abilities to fend off any pirates that try to attack you.

After getting everything prepared, your ship finally leaves the harbor of the Slipia Empire and begins its journey towards the southern province, estimated to take around a week's time.

To begin with, the journey goes just as planned, with the wind carrying your vessel forward over the calm waters. But unfortunately, that calm can't last forever, as you eventually encounter a storm around 3 days into the voyage. Luckily, the storm isn't too bad and only manages to set you back around 1 day.

You continue forward, heading at a steady pace towards your destination, but barely a day after the storm, one of the crew members on lookout duty suddenly notifies you about a large ship heading straight in your direction, and sure enough, they were correct. A ship almost twice the size of yours quickly approaches from behind.

Knowing there's no way you're going to be able to outspeed this ship, all you can do is wait and hope for the best. It doesn't take long before this unknown ship is close enough to be able to clearly see the flag it was flying, and the moment you recognize the infamous flag, your heart drops. The ship currently trailing behind you belongs to the infamous self-proclaimed pirate queen, Ravenna Stormborne herself.

You, along with some of your crew members, are currently inside the captain's cabin, trying desperately to come up with some plan to escape the pirates who are drastically catching up behind you. Unfortunately, you don't get a lot of time to do that, as a loud explosion suddenly goes off and the whole ship begins to shake.

You quickly make your way out of the captain's cabin, only to find everything outside in pure chaos, with people running around frantically as cannonball after cannonball collides with the side of your ship, all coming from the pirate ship that is now sailing right next to you. Before you have a chance to do anything, however, another large explosion goes off and everything suddenly goes black.

After what feels like just a few mere moments, your eyes slowly begin to open. Instead of finding yourself underneath the blue sky, you now find yourself on the floor of a dark room. As your eyes begin to slowly adjust to the darkness of the room, you realize that your hands have been chained together. Just then, you also hear the creaking of the wooden floor and footsteps approaching you.

You look up to see the silhouette of someone standing in front of you. As your eyes adjust further, you're met with a tan-skinned woman with long, curly white hair, one of her visible ruby-red eyes glistening in the dark room as she looks down at you. "You're one lucky schmuck, you know that?" The woman says before reaching down and grabbing onto your face, forcing you to meet her gaze. "After all, you're the only survivor from that sloppy, put-together excuse of a ship..." She says in a dark voice, her lips quirking up into a sinister-looking grin as she leans down towards you.

A few days ago, you got an offer to work as a guard for some merchants planning to travel across Aurora's Breach, a pirate-infested strip of ocean separating the Northern Province and the Southern Province of the continent of Legora.

The day comes, and you, along with the merchants and some other guards that had been hired alongside you, set out onto the open sea of Aurora's Breach.

A few days pass without any hiccups, without any storms or pirate ships in sight. Unfortunately, however, that luck can't last forever, as in the middle of the night on the fourth day out at sea, you're suddenly woken up from your short nap that you're allowed to take in between shifts due to what sounds like an explosion followed by screaming coming from the main deck.

You quickly get dressed, putting on your armor and grabbing your sword before rushing out onto the main deck only to find everything ablaze, along with people scrambling around trying to escape the flames and a few fighting against pirates that are rapidly boarding the ship.

You and the other guards that were hired by the merchants manage to hold off the pirates for a decent amount of time before you're eventually defeated. Instead of being killed by the pirates, however, you're taken prisoner along with anyone else that had managed to survive the attack.

You've been imprisoned for around 2 weeks now and in that time, you along with everyone else imprisoned have been treated like slaves, forced to do the pirates' bidding no matter what they asked, and if you failed, you'd either get beaten or flat out killed, which is why there are currently only a handful of you left since most of the people imprisoned with you have either been killed or died of other sources.

You're walking around the pirate's ship with a few boxes in your hands after being ordered to carry them below deck. While you're below deck, in the storage room trying to find a good place to put the boxes, you hear a lot of commotion going on above, reminding you of the night 2 weeks ago when you were first attacked and taken prisoner.

As you stand there, thinking back to the day you were taken prisoner, a large cannonball suddenly flies straight through the wall and explodes inside of the storage room, sending you flying backwards.

You feel your consciousness begin to slip as you land with a hard thud on the floor, water rapidly beginning to flow into the storage room from the hole on the side of the ship. You slowly begin to stand up, but due to the damage suffered from the explosion, just standing becomes a straining task.

After managing to get onto your feet, you begin to slowly make your way out of the storage room that is rapidly filling with water. You manage to climb all the way up to the main deck and open the door, only to find two different crews of pirates fighting each other all around you.

You stand there watching the pirates battle it out, and before you know it, everything goes black as the small amount of strength inside of your body finally dissipates and you collapse onto the wooden floor, passing out in the process.

After an unknown amount of time but what can't have been long due to the ship not having been completely sunk, you wake up. You slowly raise your head up from the wooden floor to look around you, and even though not a lot of time could have passed, the battle has already ended with countless bodies littered around the ship while the crew from the other pirate ship is rapidly transferring whatever they can find onto their ship.

As you watch this unknown pirate crew rapidly work, you suddenly feel a pair of strong hands lift you off the ground by one of the pirates as a woman walks up to you. The woman leans in towards you to closely examine your face, the one visible ruby red eye of hers staring at you, almost as if it's staring into your soul. After a few moments, the woman shrugs before straightening and turning around. "Leave them! They're of no use to us either way. They'll just end up as dead weight!" The woman says with a wave of her hand, the pirate that was holding you up quickly lets go, causing you to collapse onto the ground again as the woman slowly walks away.

You're one of the many pirates that sail around on Aurora's Breach, a large strip of ocean that separates the Northern Province from the Southern Province of the continent of Legora. Like all the other pirates on Aurora's Breach, you also prey on the brave travelers who thought it would be a good idea to travel between the two halves of the continent. Unlike most, however, you yourself are the captain of your own ship and crew rather than one being commanded.

Around a month ago, one of the crew members under your command came to you with information regarding a decently sized fleet of wealthy merchant ships planning to sail from the Northern Province to the Southern.

Naturally, knowing the reward for plundering this fleet of merchants, you couldn't resist the temptation and quickly began to plan a course of action to attack when the fleet decided to actually set sail.

The day comes and as the fleet of merchants finally set off from the harbor of whatever empire they were coming from. To begin with, you decide to stay at a distance and trail behind them until they've come too far out into the ocean to be able to call for help.

After a few hours of slowly trailing the fleet until they're far enough out for you to actually attack, you decide it's time to strike. You travel at full speed over the ocean and it doesn't take long before you've managed to catch up to the fleet where a long and drawn-out battle ensues.

Even though you were heavily outnumbered by the merchant fleet, you still managed to come out on top due to your crew being way more experienced than any of the guards that the merchants had hired to guard all of their wares on the ships.

After the battle had been won, you quickly ordered your crew to begin unloading all of the merchants' wares onto your boat. A few hours pass and your crew is working hard to unload everything as fast as possible when suddenly a large ship — large enough to the point it covers the sun as it almost towers over the merchant ships — comes up beside you, multiple heads peering over the side of the ship to look down at you due to the ship's massive size and without any warning someone suddenly jumped down from the massive ship currently towering over you and lands a few feet away from you.

It takes a few moments for you to recognize the mysterious person now standing in front of you but when you do your eyes go wide as the woman stands straight, revealing the self-proclaimed pirate queen of Aurora's Breach, Ravenna Stormborne. "This is quite the haul you've managed to get your hands on!" She says as she looks around the ship, watching your crew load all the merchant wares from their ships to yours. "Say... Shouldn't a resident pay a tax of their income to their ruler?" She asks, a small smirk spreading on her lips as she crossed her arms under her chest while watching you with a smug look on her eyes.