Bergolast’s principal sea port, Pulgamuro, perished horribly in the first of The Burning Land’s great fires. A flaming cyclone roared in from the plains to the north and raged through the streets, incinerating houses and charring every stone on the city walls coal-black. Citizens rushed en masse into the bay, hoping to outlast the inferno. Those who could not crawl onto boats drowned, and their spirits now haunt the bay.
Gnolls use Pulgamuro’s blackened ruins as day camps, but never linger after sunset. This is because every night, a ship made of roiling smoke, teeming with the drowned, appears on the bay. The drowned rush through the city, apprehending anyone alive, and drag them with bloated, clammy hands to their ship. Before the first light of dawn, the vessel departs to the west. It is unclear where it goes. It is only known that it reappears in the bay the next night without exception.
Hooks
- -Where else do flaming cyclones appear in the Burning Lands?
- -Who recorded Pulgamuro’s nightly phenomena?
- -Where does the ship go each night?
- -Are the spirits of those who died in the fire at peace, or are they doing some haunting as well?
- -Tell me more about the drowned.
