Dark Archipelago

The **Dark Archipelago** are a group of islands off the northwestern coast of the Hadaar, on the Dark Gulf. Life on the islands is described as nasty, brutal, and often short. The isles are hot, humid, and are considered unhealthy for both man and beast.

## The Islands

### Bloodhollow Skerry

A small tropical isle that are rumored to be inhabited by savage cannibalistic tribes of degenerate humans, it is also believed to be haunted by the ghosts of the cannibals' victims.

### Farr's Islet

A small island providing good anchorage, fresh water, and fruits. Rumor has it that an attempt to establish a colony ended in utter failure, when many of the colonists succumbed to a wasting disease.

### Scale Island

A large densely forested island that gets its name from giant lizards, snakes fifty feet long, and terrible man-eating dragons that inhabit the island's interior.

### Isle of Skulls

A small uninhabited island covered in the skulls left there as offerings by the corsairs passing by to some dark deity.

### Bleaktooth Isle

An island located southeast of Scale Island. It is home to the ruins of Bleaktooth Temple, built atop some subterranean tunnels. The island was first occupied by a now forgotten race who constructed an extensive temple in basalt rock. It now serves as the lair of a powerful Psoom priestess.

### Comwick Refuge

Named after the infamous former lord turned pirate, Captain Comwick. The island served as his hideout for years, until his death and later was deserted.

### Isle of Spiders

A island that is infested with all manner of spiders including a brood of voracious Archspinners with a taste for human flesh.

### Elyria

The island of Elyria is covered mostly by rainforests and jungles. A primitive, yet sapient, race called the Qali have inhabited this island since ancient times.

### Isle of Poxes

A small swampy island riddled with all sorts of debilitating diseases and swarms of bloodsucking mosquitos.

### Darkshriek Island

A cave-riddled isle that houses large colonies of voracious meat devouring naked-skinned, bat-winged rodents and their young.

### Mad Hal's Rock

North of Darkshriek Island is a small tidal island that is named after its first, last, and only resident, the insane pirate known only as Mad Hal who is said to have cursed the island in his dying breath after being marooned there.

### Crossbones Isle

The island that served as the hideout of the infamous Crossbones Gang.

### Bagger Island

Bagger Island is named after the eponymous pirate, his crew and their families settled here and established the independent port town of Port Bagger.

### Black Plate

A flat, expansive rock south of the Island of the Storm Lord.

### Demon's Cay

Numerous ruins dot the entire island of Demon's Cay, crumbling edifices, eroding towers and dilapidated monuments. It is a place that is feared as demon-haunted and tainted by terrible acts committed here by evil men.

### Shackle Isle

A large island that became a hotspot for pirate activity and quickly grew into the center of a thriving business around the slave trade.

### Sernsara

One of the largest islands of the archipelago, Sernsara is covered in dense hostile jungle with many deadly predators stalking the shadows of this primordial land. The Zohaur denizens of this place have reverted completely to barbarism, becoming little more then wild beasts that fight each other.

### Isle of Eggs

A rocky island featuring many hidden coves and sources of fresh water, and is populated mostly by numerous species of marine turtles and migratory sea birds.

### Hersake Atoll

A small coral isle that partially encircles a lagoon. At the center of the lagoon lies a submerged metallic construct that fell from the sky many years ago.

### Island of Trikes

Home to an endemic population of pygmy Arborceratops.

### Marduka Island

Surrounded by sheer rock cliffs with few beaches. Marduka Island is covered by dense prolific jungle and is home to birds and sea mammals, as well as arboreal rodents and snakes.

### Isle of Chatters

A island close to Marduka Island that is inhabited by a dangerous tribe of Bakmoni that make gleeful clicking noises when preparing to attack.