Silver Timbre

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The **Silver Timbre** is a cursed ship also going by the name *The Storm's Shadow* or *The Storm's Eye* and became the main ship of the Charat Pirates. She is bound to Captain Sakraya Charat.

## Appearance

The Silver Timbre is a moderate-sized galley made from a dark greyish-blue wood with dark metal reinforcing the bow and stern.

Her sails are a dark-turqouise with greyish-black trims. Even the ropes are a dark-grey tone.

Despite the ship below the waterline being covered in algea and barnacles, the rest is comparably clean, although still seeming worn.

The ship consists of a typical set-up of crow's nest, a captain's cabin and two decks.

The canons are located below deck.

The ships figurehead is a Siren with long, billowy hair, outstretching her hands to the sky while looking up. Her hands clearly meant to hold something although the attachment seems to have been lost alongside one of her hands.

Her name, "*The Silver Timbre*", is engraved in Old Avan runes in several places across the ship. Once above the door of the captain's cabin and on both sides at the bow of the ship.

## Abilities

The Silver Timbre is not actually a ship, but a mimic. As in the nature of mimics, it took on the form of a ship to lure unsuspecting creatures in to consume their bodys and arcane energy.

It is not clearly known what the exact nature between the mimic ship and Kraken is. However, they are by all accounts inseparable and the Kraken consumes whatever ships and people the Silver Timbre herself does not consume.

Aside their bond, the ship also has a enchanted runic spell engraved into herhull that creates a storm around the ship. The ship seems to be in control of the storm whenever it is needed and extends that power to her captain.

There also several warding runes engraved into the ship, making her sturdier than she appears.

## History

The legends of ghost ships, filled to the brim with treasures, floating above the surface or having sunken below are as common in Lyloca as sand on the beaches. However, the *Legend of the Silver Timbre* is one of the most famous high tales of Lyloca's taverns and inns.

The Silver Timbre is said to be a dark, mystical ship once owned by one of the first pirates of Lyloca.

Ravia the Silver-Tounged was a Siren, who followed A. Rosenberg to Lyloca from the Oceans of Korineia. She became a famous treasure hunter, known for finding and unearthing the unimaginable treasures of the Ibora that used to call Lyloca their home. One day, as they unearthed a new temple of the Old Ones and returned with a treasure from its depths, something followed them and swallowed them whole, leaving behind the ship and her cargo, but not the crew or Ravia.

While nothing of this tale is proven to be true, especially not Ravia's very existence, sightings of the ghost ship are known far and wide among the people of Lyloca, especially given that the ship is always silhoutted across the horizon, earning her the secondary names of *The Storm's Shadow* and *The Storm's Eye.*

Many have encountered the ship while sailing through the storms, but very few actually ever had gotten close to see the real ship or lived to tell the tale.

It is through her mentors and leading Pirate Lords of the Deep Sea Pirates, Captain Deep Sea Daddy and Deep Sea Darling, that Sakraya learns of a new information that is partial to the Oceana. The ship is always tailed by monsters of the sea and the source of the storm. Also the three names, despite what the land-dwellers believe, describe one and the same ship - *The Silver Timbre*. Her mentors also strongly warn Sakraya against seeking out such dangerous ships. A warning she does not heed the second she was declared Lordless, searching out the ship with her trusted crew and friends.

They manage to chase down the storm and the ship. Misfortune would strike as the very second Sakraya and her allies borded the ship - she comes alive and begins actively attacking her unwanted passengers. When she found her friends in grave danger, Sakraya attempted to negotiate with the ship.

Much to her shock the ship seems to recoil at her words and - even more so - at her spilled blood. Whispering something inelligble in Ancient Avan to her, the ship let her friends go but forms a pact with her instead.

The pact physically impacts Sakraya greatly, bringing out more of her Oceana heritage as well as taking her eyesight in exchange for her crew and control of the ship. They also then learned the true nature of the ship and her forever bound companion, an ancient kraken, with whom she is in a symbiotic relationship.

Now pactbound, Sakraya and her crew continously sail on the Silver Timbre until Sakraya's death or the ships destruction.

## Trivia

* primarily based on the Flying Dutchman from Pirate's of the Carribean and - for lack of a better expression - general ghost ship lore
* while conceptualised as a mimic kraken ship with a storm attached to it from the very start, the decision was cemented when Amsy coincidentally stumbled across the song *Tale of the Shadow* by *Sail North (absolute recommendation)*
* the kraken itself is inspired by the Kraken found in *Disney's Atlantis 2,* although stripped of its mindcontrol abilities and instead given the ability to create storms instead
* The Name was a matter of long debate, but due to an obscure Sonic the Hedgehog joke made by Vevi when telling of the aforementioned song and the ship, the suggestion to name it Silver Sonic was made. While first used as a WIP name, Silver Sonic soon became Silver Timbre.
* lending to its name, the ship makes quite a few odd reverbing noises from time to time