The port town of Isla Azulina, the largest and most inhabited island in the Dorado Archipelago.

The legendary Captain Dukane Stormborne has gathered a crew to seek out Umberlee’s lost island, a possibly mythic island shrouded in curses, but clearly important to Dukane for… vague reasons. You are all being paid handsomely.

Intro - Dukane’s Ship:

• Galleon - Four Level Ship, 14 guns.

Objective - Hook:

Dukane:

• Show ship layout, Dukane welcomes everyone aboard.
• “Now that we’re safely on the ship and away from prying ears… What do you know about the Shrine of Atonement?”
  • He explains it’s a mythic shrine or object, nobody’s quite sure—that is rumored to turn back one moment in time. Dukane believes this is how Umberlee brought her people back. Legend says if you gather ‘tears’ from every sea where the merfolk now flourish, and bring them to the shrine…
  • He trails off, it’s clear even he doesn’t really know what would happen.

Intro NPC: Crusty the Crab:

• At the far end of the ship, a few large crates of supplies have been loaded and are waiting to be unpacked. At the beginning of this conversation, a few gulls were casually hanging out on them, but alarmingly, as you have continued talking they have continued gathering. At this point, it’s getting a bit hard to hear yourselves speak over their squawking.
• Intro Crusty (Goliath Paladin - Level 5)
  • Character Sheet: https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/110477179/Mu7p1h
  • A stowaway is on board! Crusty is bartering safe passage with a scrap of poem his mermaid nanny use to sing:
    • “Beneath the light that guides to shore / Seek the pool where Salthar roars / Where rock in glowing silence weep / Find Umberlee’s tears in caverns deep.”

Dukane

• ”Beneath the light that guides to shore…” Hmmm… There’s a lighthouse on an island to the south of Isla de Tempestsdad. That's our best bet. It hasn’t been functioning for decades, so we’d best approach during the day.

The sun hangs high in the sky as the ship glides languidly through the waters. Ahead, rising majestically from the rocky cliffs, stands an ancient lighthouse, its whitewashed walls gleaming in the sunlight. The rhythmic sound of waves crashing against the shore fills the air. Tufts of thick seagrass poke out among the rocks, with a few gnarled coastal shrubs.

Young NPC Ida waits at the dock…