The Dead Sky

The Dead Sky or Grave Sky are the most commonly known names for the battlefield where the pride of the Bastion Empire of old tore itself apart.

Prior to the night of the coup the military was sent away from the city on training maneuvers. The two main factions of the loyalists and revolutionaries were waiting for either to make the first move. The Revolutionary forces had expected the loyalists to lay down their arms once word of the Royal family's death reached them.

Unbeknownst to them, the Vayan managed to save the queen and her immediate family with the help of courageous adventurers.

With neither side willing to back down the forces clashed. The largest army the Broken Worlds had known tore itself apart.

The Loyalists were ultimately triumphant, but it was a Pyrrhic victory. The battlefield was lost and a long stretch of shattered ships stretched across the skies. Pirates and looters were quick to occupy the air, light maneuverable ships were able to hide behind the skeletons of the warships to evade retribution.

After a few years wreckages seemed to grow. Floatsam and Jetsam seeming to congregate there. Ancient wrecks falling from high sky or rising from the deep to eternally rest in the graveyard of ships.

Eventually the dead began to stir as well. Hungry dead began to prowl the graveyard of ships. Strange cursed elemental formed from broken ships and the restless dead. Only one safe haven exists within the cursed realm. Ruled by an enigmatic self proclaimed Pirate King. A wizard, a god, a pirate who claims to have found eternal life. Though his skeletal remains are all that remain.

Merchants, travellers and pirates all claim city as home, for the fastest way to trade in the neutral territories, and therefore most lucrative, is through the Dead Sky.

Those who receive his blessing and pay his tithe have nothing to fear from the hungry dead. Those who do not do well to douse their lights and pray for swift passage.

Notable Locations:

Empire's Fall
The lone safe haven within the Dead Sky.