Episode: Gyre Interlude
Posted by Story on 04/10/17
Despite the ongoing siege and crisis in the city, many rallied to help with the matter of piracy and the looming threat beyond in the darkwater. The shavs that served the Gyre have been crushed. While it seems but a tiny fragment of them truly had any deep connection with him, and only a sliver would be bold enough to make the claim that they had met him or traveled to the Darkwater where he lairs, the madness of the Gyre was spreading throughout the Mourning Isles. Emboldened pirates were raiding shipping and settlements, and clan after Abandoned clan were going mad. With fire and sword, soft words and diplomacy, that slide has been halted. Many Abandoned have bent the knee, including a new march named House Eswynd in the service of House Tyde, and Thrax and its bannermen have all increased their own domains with acquisitions through bent knee or slain foes. And while certainly many clans of Abandoned remain in the Isles, the sheer brutality in fighting against them has likely broken the shavs' power as a major threat to the Isles for years to come. Still, there was no sign of the Gyre himself at all, and he and his true forces linger in the Darkwater Deeps. Waiting.