History
Shifters are uncommon, and their link to lycanthrope often make them the target of ne'er do well templar, knights, and paladin hoping for renown. Those escaping the blades of wannabe heroes are met with insults and glare from commoners, forcing them to hide their nature.
Nalia had to deal with those behaviors early on, her and her friend
Eloise Longears were two orphan walking the streets of
Nicodranas. Stamped as cursed beasts and outcasts from the get-go, the two girls turned to criminality, the only place people like them wouldn't be disregarded, yet they hoped for freedom, for a simple life.
The two girls made an oath to each other, that to set sail and find a place where they would be free, where they would be queen. A wish that was only partially afforded as they managed to become part of the Longstraw Pirates, boarding on
The Dryad.
The cloven crystal war
late 1136 AD
The
Cloven Crystals — ancient seals that bound the mighty
Tromokratis — had fallen one by one. Destroyed or stolen by the
Kraken King’s pirates, each loss brought his monstrous reign closer. Only one crystal remained, the final barrier to his dominion over the seas. It was embedded within Queen
Morganyn herself, who stood as the last line of defense.
Desperate to break that final seal, the Kraken King rallied the Longstraw Pirates. Over twenty ships, crewed by hundreds of raiders, surged toward
Coralia — the
Triton capital — intent on tearing the last crystal from the queen’s body. Foreseeing the coming storm, Morganyn dispatched her warriors to meet the enemy at the surface. Within Coralia, the city’s defense fell to their
Plasmoid allies.
As arcane fire and magical volleys rained from pirate mages, the sea boiled with war. But not every pirate served the Kraken King faithfully. A rogue ship — The
Garrot — used the chaos to slip its own infiltrators into Coralia.
The battle raged for hours. Triton forces, hard-pressed on the surface, were forced to retreat and reinforce the palace, turning back Katarina’s assault from within. But their withdrawal allowed the Kraken King's pirates to dive beneath the waves, setting a new plan in motion. His mages gathered for a ritual — calling forth dragon turtles to shift the tide in his favor.
When news of this reached Queen Morganyn, she wavered. With no way to hold Coralia and no reinforcements in sight, she made a painful decision: she would flee, drawing the fight away from her people to buy them time.
Under cover of night, Morganyn, her advisors, and
Wellan slipped from the palace. First disguised as drifting jellyfish, they then polymorphed into sharks to escape undetected. Their destination: The
Garrot — the only ship that might still carry them to safety.
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