Two more adventure locations on the Judas Sea in Krevborna! The first one, Fathom's Reach, was invented as a location the characters visited in my previous Krevborna campaign. Flotsam, on the other hand, was inspired by the (criminally underused) Saragoss from the Ravenloft setting and the floating city of Armada from China Mieville's novel The Scar.
Fathom’s Reach
Though its presence is unknown to most, Fathom’s Reach is an accursed city lurking beneath the waves of the Judas Sea.
• Fathom’s Reach is an undersea city whose buildings are made of a strange, greasy black stone.
• The black stone used in its construction leeches an inky miasma into the water surrounding Fathom’s Reach that obscures it from view.
• Fathom’s Reach is inhabited by fish-like greshnik who were once human.
• The first residents of Fathom’s Reach made a compact with Scylla, a primordial creature of the depths, in order to survive a terrible shipwreck; as part of their pact, they were transformed into their current degenerate, amphibious forms.
• The greshnik of Fathom’s Reach continue to worship Scylla as their patron “goddess.”
Flotsam
Flotsam is an unnatural island east of Piskaro comprised of an amalgamation of seaweed, wrecked ships, the bones of the drowned, broken chunks of coral reef, and other bits of ocean-borne detritus.
• Flotsam's nutrient rich soil, made fertile by the rot of the island’s accumulation of refuse and debris, births a verdant jungle spreading over much of the island.
• Some claim that the overgrown jungles of the island’s interior are vaster than its spatial boundaries should allow for and that ruins belonging to ancient civilizations are hidden within them.
• The isle serves as a neutral meeting ground for Piskaro’s pirate captains.
• Many believe that a number of legendary pirate captains buried their treasure on Flotsam; maps purporting to lead to their hoards sometimes surface, but thus far all who have flowed their paths have failed to return.
• Captain Laurant maintains a plantation farm on Flotsam, but its location is a closely guarded secret; the plantation is worked by zombie laborers under Vanessa Laurant’s control.