The Crimson Fleet

A loosely organized band of pirates known to operate in the oceans surrounding the Amedio Jungle. These scoundrels perform all manner of high-seas brigandage, slavery, and smuggling, operating from a foul harbor far to the south. Crimson Fleet captains are renowned for their ruthlessness and cruelty, but still hold to a perverse code of honor. While stories abound of the Fleet razing and pillaging Amedio settlements, the pirates give Sasserine a wide berth.

The following are several rumors regarding the Crimson Fleet:

• Captains of the Crimson Fleet are all addicted to a drug that turns their eyes permanently red with blood.
• The threat of the Crimson Fleet is the only thing keeping the Scarlet Brotherhood from overrunning Sasserine.
• The leader of the fleet is known only as "The Admiral", and wears a blood-red mask over half of his face at all times to conceal his shocking identity.
• The sailors in the Crimson Fleet are all cannibals, loosed upon the seas to sow torment and pain.
• The Fleet has eyes and ears everywhere, and communicates through seemingly innocuous signs and signals. Those who speak ill of it without care are likely to meet with accidents.
• The Fleet has a hundred ships, the largest of which is a mobile island drawn by enslaved dragon turtles.