Last Port of the Cormath: History

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Last Port of the Cormath

History

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The history of the Last Port of the Cormath begins with a ship known as the Cormath. This merchant vessel, carrying a crew of traders and sailors, met an unfortunate end in a violent storm off the eastern coast of Aevos. The crew was left stranded on an unfamiliar shore, shipwrecked with their goods lost to the sea.

 

After scouting the area they crashed in, the crew stumbled upon a hidden cache of treasure in a nearby cave. The abundant treasure was enough to not only absorb the financial loss of the shipwreck, but also afford the crew a comfortable retirement. Captain Tomas, the ambitious and ruthless leader of the Cormath, had other plans. Unwilling to share the newfound wealth equally among his crew, he conspired with a select few of his trusted men to seize control of the treasure. Tomas and his loyalists slaughtered most of the unsuspecting crew, blaming their deaths on the shipwreck.

(Credit: Robert Simic)

 

Stranded, and with no ship to transport the treasure, Tomas sent his men to Vortice, the city closest to their wreck, for supplies while he awaited his other ship to come looking for them. The ship that arrived, however, was not one of Tomas’s trading vessels. It was the Ogram, a formidable ship of red wood and black sails, under the command of Captain Vohne, who laid claim to the hidden treasure.

 

Finding his treasure to be missing, Captain Vohne turned to the nearby shipwreck. Despite his best efforts, Vohne could not locate the treasure, as Tomas refused to reveal its new location. Captain Vohne warned Tomas of the wrath of two other pirate Captains to whom he owed a share of the treasure. He warned that they’d come looking for what was rightfully theirs.

 

Realizing the threat posed by the three pirate captains and the potential devastation their search for the treasure could bring to Last Port, Captain Tomas and his powerful captains found a diplomatic path.

(Credit: Gabriela Pruszkowska Engelmann)

 

The captain of the Cormath and the most influential captains within the Last Port formed the Privateer Court to shoulder the responsibility of day-to-day governance and maintaining order, but crucially, they were the only ones privy to the secret of the treasure’s location.

To appease the three pirate captains and prevent them from resorting to violence in their hunt for the treasure, Tomas granted them authority over the town’s affairs disguised under the clandestine Pirate Court. Although they remained unaware of the exact location of the treasure, this measure integrated them into the town’s power structure, and provided an outlet for their influence while maintaining relative peace, keeping the existence of the Pirate Court a well-guarded secret from the public eye.

 

Recently, the Last Port has been officially granted the land that the Cormath shipwrecked on. Now acting as an autonomous vassal under The Unified Domain of Vortice, the Last Port of the Cormath continues to flourish as a haven for privateers, merchants, and sailors alike.

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