Shipwreck Isle

Located to the southeast of the Woag sub-continent, Shipwreck Isle sits at the intersection of several major currents of the World Ocean. This includes the North Sea current and the Goran Steamer. The convergence of these counter currents, the mixing of hot and polar flows, combined with the counter-current prevailing winds makes the narrow waterway between the Isle and the Woag the most dangerous waterway on Soi. The ocean to the east of the Isle is not much better, and the entire region is seasonally plagued by the remains of the huge Gorricane storms which blow up from the tropical waters to die.
The mix of all of these factors results in a large number of ships caught in such weather being hurled into the landmass known as Shipwreck Isle. Naturally unsettled by humans, the Isle typically only sports huge colonies of marine mammals and their associated predators in the water. However due the frequency of ship wrecks on the Isle, as any vessel who's ability to power itself is damaged inevitably ends grounded on the shore, a human population has taken hold.
The survivors of the ship wrecks eek out a miserable existence, using wood and materials from their wrecked ships to survive the harsh conditions. Predatory by necessity, the established bands of castaways tend to fall violently upon fresh arrivals for their resources. The Isle is ruled by complete anarchy, with each band being lead by whoever seems able best help their followers survive. There is little in the way of peaceful interaction between the roving bands, but also frequent raiding. The commodities most in demand being alcohol, food, weapons, and of course the rarest of all: women.
No one knows of any that have escaped Shipwreck Isle, the apocalyptic conditions of the seas surrounding the Isle preventing any sane exploratory landings and even the insane explorers rarely manage to land without becoming Wrecked themselves in the weather. Added to this are the predators in the waters around the Island.
Daring men occasionally try to fashion rafts to escape the Isle in the rare days of calm weather, but even then they also have to survive the large groups of Black Devil Whales which hunt the waters of the area. Survivors on the Isle have ominous stories of watching rafts make it into the break waters, only to be overturned by the white and black whales. The occasional man manages to swim back to shore, often missing parts of himself. That is if the sharks didn't end him given the smell of blood in the water.
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