The Graveyard Galleon

Ship Class: Galleon

Length: 100 - 110m

Number of Decks: 3-4, dependent on salvage

Number of Masts: 3 large or 2 massive, dependent on salvage

Armaments: 30-40 16-pound cannons, plus any weapons they scavenge (ballistas, makeshift trebuchets, or driftwood launchers)

**THE FLAG:**

Figurehead: 3 complete skeletons and other bones, climbing the hull and prow

Colors: Black, brown, and the slight greens of the moist driftwood of the long-sunken ships in the Boneyard at BC's Hideaway, which the Galleon is made of.

Other Details: An eerie bluish glow can be seen emanating from certain parts where the wood is joined, and holes in the ship show it to have a ghostly, translucent interior.

## ***BACKSTORY***

The tale of the Graveyard Galleon begins with the Whydah Galley, an infamous slave ship that sailed the Caribbean with Lawrence Prince at the helm. After plying this dastardly trade for about a year, she was finally liberated by Black Sam Bellamy in the Windward Passage between Cuba and Hispaniola, and converted to a more honorable brand of notoriety, becoming that worthy skallywag’s flagship. Together they sailed north and raided the east coast of North America, taking and plundering or sinking several Royal Navy vessels as they went. A year later, though, a violent storm struck up off the Massachusetts coast that rammed her into a sandbar before ripping her back out to sea and violently capsizing her. 144 of the 146 people on board were lost when she sank into the shallows.

One hundred forty four… a significant number, in certain circles. Significant enough, along with its origins as a slave vessel turned pirate ship, to draw the attention of the Lord of the Deep himself, Davy Jones. As the storm cast the bodies about the coast for miles, the spirits of the dead remained bound to the remains of the wreck - the ‘bones’ of the ship. Davy gathered these bones, buried beneath the sand, and removed them to Isla de Oro, where they were deposited at the base of the cliffs in the north. So was laid the first wreck of what would become the Boneyard, and when the Quacken was sent to the Isle to defend it, he chose this place for his lair for the power that emanated from this wreck.

When the Republic was finally established and the Nightwatch formed, this ship was raised from those depths after a special request by Nuke Squid, that organization’s founder. He had recently resolved to appoint Grim to take his place when he departed from the Isle, and knew that he would need a crew and ship to perform his duties. Davy Jones enthusiastically agreed to this arrangement, and so the skeleton of the Whydah Galley was raised from the depths, and rechristened the Graveyard Galleon.

Given the myriad other ships that were brought back and deposited in the Boneyard by the Quacken, it is not all too clear which parts actually belong to the original vessel, but the structural parts of the ship remain the same. With Davy Jones’ blessing, the Dread Captain of the Nightwatch (currently Raven Blackthorn) raises the former slave galleon’s bones from the seafloor, and she and her crew patch together the hull, decks, masts, and armaments of the vessel in whatever configuration takes their fancy with the available materials. Adding in the Arcane Engine once this construction is complete makes the Graveyard Galleon singularly formidable, and those who do not fall to her by sheer terror are decimated by her guns, and her ravenous undead crew.

## ***CURRENT CREW***

Dread Captain: Raven Blackthorn

Shadow tamer: Arrow

Dreadsight: Cenwyn Roberts

Chaos Sower : \*

Deadshot (Marksmen): Cenwyn Roberts

Corpse Loader : Sharky

Darkhand: Stray

Nightwatchmen : Grim, Vjiörick

* Isla de Oro Wiki
* The Island
* The Town
* The Council of Bones
* The Fleet
* The Captains
* The Officers
* The Nightwatch
* NPCs
* The Library
* The Hall of Legends