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Captain Dante leads a flotilla of marauding, cut-throat pirates with an appetite for debauchery and no scruples. They are said to “fly the red,” although they are apt to use and manner of trickery and disguise. |
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The Firehawk pirates were born in blood and fire, in a slave an uprising aboard an exotic a Polonian merchant shipgalley, The Glorious Phoenix. Its grandiose name and its outwardly luxurious appointments gave the appearance of a decadent pleasure craft, but its holds were filled to bursting with illicit humanoid cargo being carried to the slave markets and flesh pits of the wealthy and unscrupulous. On its final voyage, however, the captives spice hauler shuttling between Verazul and the Spice Isles. However, the oarsmen chained to the rowing benches turned the tables on their captors Polonian sailing masters under the leadership of Dante, a fire-blooded ifrit efreet whose tactical brilliance and unmatched courage in the face of desperate odds was , and were able to help theslaves win the day and their freedomseize the ship and turn rogue.
Electing Dante as their captain, the survivors branded themselves the Firehawk Pirates and they refitted the merchant ship into a more functional and powerful vessel of war, rechristened as the Doom Phoenix of Oppression. Using clever tactics and subterfuge, they carried out a series of lightning raids and ambushes to seize other slave ships and liberate slave pens, offering freed prisoners the chance toships. Brigands across the Stygian Blue flocked to his banner when hearing of the opportunity to join the crews of their growing flotilla.
Boasting crew members from all different races, occupations and skillsets, the Firehawk Pirates can make for a powerful ally or a can make an extremely deadly adversary. Their primary target currently is the vicious city-state of Port Piriean, the so-called “City of Chains,” a large forge town that has been the chief arms manufacturer for most of the pirate isles. Port Piriean is has proved very difficult to assault, its approaches guarded by vast and trackless mangrove swamps and the shifting
sandbars of a river delta, along a swift-flowing river tumbling down from mountains towering over the town. Ruled by a tyrannical upper class driven by greed and the belief that they’re superior to the working class, which they treat like slaves, the Firehawk Pirates see reducing Port Piriean as a key linchpin in their campaign to unleash freedom in the pirate archipelagos.
Minor captains owning their allegiance to Captain Dante can be found all over The Stygian Blue and are they are equally likely to attack Kalian trading vessels heading to Verazul as they are to board Polonian traders hauling sugar or rum. Villages and ports anywhere on the sea are under threat of raids from the Firehawk Pirates.
The Firehawk Pirates are rumored to have a secret base west or south of the Spice Isles that is more raucous than Port Royale, more dangerous than Tortuga, and more lascivious than most can even imagine.