Smugglers Isles

## History & Description

There's two islands in the Smugglers' Isles: Marcus' Island on the left, and Clay Island on the right. A barrier reef guards Marcus' Island, sinking most ships that try to get too close.

Marcus' Island itself is huge, bigger than Lily could see from several hundred feet up. A palm grove covers the exterior of the island, and there's a jungle in the middle. To the right, the groves turn into sand dunes. There’s no structures, there’s no paths. In the dunes there are huge, 8ft fiddler crabs.

## Places of Interest

* Sandy Fort - about a mile of sand around this dilapidated fort. There's another five miles of grassland. There’s a lot of people that all have pale gray skin, and slack-jawed, staring towards the treeline. They’ve all got a knife wound on their necks, right above the jugular vein. Their eyes are glazed over. Their nails are completely black and chipped into jagged points. They definitely move if they notice people.
	+ Outer ward: there’s an old battlefield. Rubble and discarded weapons everywhere. There are skeletons wandering throughout the entire ward. There’s 15-20 of them. There’s a faint black smoke in the center, where their heart should be.
	+ Within the Fort: black flag with an hourglass and skull and crossbones. There are skeleton footprints. And there’s the swirling of sand in the back archway. Within the archway is something like a dust devil, swirling sand all around. It’s like the water elementals, but it’s a sand elemental.

* The Wreck of the Endevour - the burned wreck of one ship that brought corpses from Solheim to "bring the will of the Carrion King" to Gristol.

## People of Interest

* Hugo - Moon Druid that follows the cult of the Carrion King. He called Lily a witch for destroying their ship, the Endevour. He's got sandy-blond hair and preferred to speak in Soleian. He was also a complete zealot for the Carrion King.
* Bernard Guiles - necromancer who has a gem that controls the elementals, and a dagger that makes zombies. He's the one that killed Emilia.
* Carrion King – he wants to control everyone. Only a select few will retain their souls and consciousness. He’s a wonderful man. He wears the skull of giant vulture and the feathers of it as well.

## Lore & Notes

* Hugo and Bernard came to the island on a mission: they were bringing bodies from Solheim to this place. Once they arrived they were going to find the abandoned fort and use it as a base to create the dark zombies. They brought them here because they’re trying to bring the will of the Carrion King to Gristol. Not all of those that were created were left here. Two ships had already taken the successful zombies to the shores of Gristol.
* In all they had 15 people sailing the ships and 50 bodies in the cargo hold. The reef Hugo and Bernard made it. The leader’s name is Bernard Guiles.

* 20 of them were reanimated correctly and those don't seem obviously undead. They act drunk or sick. And then they cause an outbreak. They were sent off towards Gristol in two ships. Fifteen of them end up in Gaoli and infect Lower Port, the other 5 were found in the other ship off the coast. The ship was sunk, and the undead were accounted for and destroyed.
* Bernard had a gem that controls the elementals two levels down in the fort. It’s called the Heart of the Sea. As long as the gem is there, the elementals will come back in 3 days. Back left is a staircase. Follow it down, there’s another staircase, and there’s double doors. In the storage room the gem is on a pedestal.

* Bernard was a jackass. He started spying on us during the skeleton fight in the outer ward by looking through an arcane eye in the skull of one of the skeletons. He said: “Well, you’re all an annoying bunch. I was wondering who was destroying my creations.” and then set a sand elemental on us that very nearly killed Emilia.