Shanty Island

Shanty Island is a 'free' pirate colony in the northern Inland Sea which serves as the homeland of the Shanty Pirates. While its system of government is rudimentary, the island effectively is functionally an elective monarchy. 
The island is protected by a near-permanent cyclonic weather system which makes approaching the island extremely dangerous to sailors unfamiliar with the applications of Sea Shanties. This weather system has historically been critical to the island's defence, and is credited with being key to the preservation of pirate culture into the modern age.The island is also adjacent to a mostly submerged temple consecrated in honour of Suradan - the patron god of sailors, and therefore also pirates. The temple's age is uncertain; all that is known is that it is extremely old, and has a sophisticated yet unfamiliar architecture which predates Argaivian settlement in the region.
It is worth noting that while the Shanty Pirate clan is the predominant pirate clan on the island, and is in effect the only formal 'clan' to exist in the traditional sense, many of the island's inhabitants trace their lineages to other historical pirate clans which formerly operated across the Inland Sea before their near-eradication during the Pirate War, such as the Verbose, Eburigan and Corgi clans. Despite this, from an outsider perspective the term 'Shanty Pirate' is often used as a term of nationality by outsiders, as one would refer to a 'Pemblishman' or an 'Alleurian'.
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