South Shriekwind Island

South Shriekwind Island is an unoccupied island in Breaca owned by The Shriekwind Exiles. Once a focal point of Demonic energy during the Shadow era, traces of the Shadow remnants haunt the small island's taiga forests, waiting for ignorant or unfortunate explorers to devour for their next meal.

Occasional Marhuman visits to the island's coast yield some fish and animal skins from the creatures that wander away from the haunted forest. However, wandering storms from the Baleful Bay prevent meaningful exploitation of the island's resources, some of the island's geography remains unknown despite charting attempts by the Exiles, and initial prospecting by early Marhuman explorers suggest little in the way of exploitable ores. Consequently, South Shriekwind Island's economy is negligible and instead provides temporary refuge as a last resort for Marhuman fishing parties when the Bay becomes too violent to directly return to North Shriekwind Island.

Frequent visits to South Shriekwind Island are made by the Seacave militia to inspect the coastline from afar and monitor suspicious developments.

First Era - The Shadow
Little is known of life on South Shriekwind Island before the Shadow's appearance. In all likelihood, the Demons found no sapients to exploit and maintained a tiny garrison only to capture fugitives that tried to use the Shriekwind Islands as shelter. The Demons built a thin, colossal lighthouse on the southern coast which contained an iridescent red-orange gemstone known simply as the Baleful Beacon to control the Baleful Bay's violent weather. No traces of the lighthouse remain, however, and knowledge on the Beacon and its whereabouts have vanished from living memory.

First Era - Post Shadow
For the first hundred years after the Shadow's disappearance, South Shriekwind Island saw no visitors.

In 1E 1081, an especially severe storm made partial landfall on South Shriekwind Island, dumping many centimeters of rain and demolishing much of the forest growth. Five years later, in 1E 1086, another storm of significantly less severity but greater spread managed to drift free from the Baleful Bay and traveled northeast, enveloping both Shriekwind Islands and West Freja in torrential rains that lasted for three weeks. It remains unknown whether both storms were part of the Baleful Bay's notorious expansion-contraction weather cycle, or if mystical forces were at play.

The Witch's Lighthouse
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