The Firehawk pirates were born in blood and fire, in a slave uprising aboard an exotic merchant ship, 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 turned the tables on their captors under the leadership of Dante, a fire-blooded ifrit whose tactical brilliance and unmatched courage in the face of desperate odds was able to help the
slaves win the day and their freedom.
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 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 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.
