Sunset Island

Sunset Island is a small, remote island near the mouth of Titan Bay is home to a populace of humans descended from north Svimohzian settlers who came to the Spinelands around the same time the Antiumites, Xemurians, and Nords did, shortly after the end of The Golden Age. The Sunset Islanders have managed to maintain their lonely outpost for hundreds of years, maintaining a culture steeped in both ancient Xanthium and Ozhvinmish tradition while being very much informed by their relationship with the sea. While farming is very important on the island, the Sunset Islanders are best known for their prowess as sailors. It's rumored that they can outpace even the fastest of minotaur vessels and maneuver through the rockiest shorelines. To have command of the Sunset Island's fleet is to have command of Titan Bay. The Grand Dukes of Titan's Gate are well aware of this and pay the Ship Lord a handsome salary to defend their freighters from piracy as well as to allow their fleets safe passage. However, Ship Lord Xharas has taken great concern with Kalarel The Vile's meteoric rise as a cult leader and commander of demonic forces. He has also taken umbrage with the Grand Dukes' inactivity on the matter and has since severed ties with them. Since then, the Ship Lord has pledged his ships to King Hawthorne to intercept any privateer vessels that supply the evil wizard's war effort. Xharas has been named Count of Sunset Island by decree of King Hawthorne. His island home has thus been included as a part of the growing duchy and soon to be kingdom of Saldon. While most islanders speak Common, a few of the more isolated residents of the island speak a unique variant of Svimohzish influenced by Old Common and Elvish. The vast majority of the islanders are human, though a few retain half-elven ancestry whether wood elven or sea elven. The wood elves of V'ael occasionally visit (once a century is considered "occasionally" by wood elven standards) the island to trade with relatively peacefully populace. Sea elves occasionally cavort with sailors and tell them secrets of the world beneath the waves.