First Look: The Picaroon Peninsula
Set sail for adventure on the Picaroon Peninsula! Stretching from the isolated pirate stronghold of Deksport in the west with its three violent, feuding rulers, to the mysterious Forest of Gray Spires in the east, the Picaroon Peninsula is home to ruthless buccaneers, cannibal cults, crumbling tree-choked ruins and pirate curses.
Cartography by Tommi Salama Design by Richard Green
Bounded by the legend-wreathed, labyrinthine Forest of Gray Spire to the northeast and on the other three sides by the ocean’s tumultuous waters, the Picaroon Peninsula perches on the very edge of civilisation.
The titular capital of the Picaroon Peninsula—the pirate stronghold of Deksport—is a chaotic and violent place. Orcs and goblins openly walk its streets along with unsavoury humans of every type. All three races serve aboard the many dozens of pirate vessels sailing from the port. Built upon the ruins of an old logging town swept away long ago in a tide of blood and slaughter, great quantities of loot, treasure, and slaves flow through the dilapidated, ruined port.
Ruled by a loose coalition of three powerful, vicious and depraved co-rulers—the so-called Admiral’s Council—Deksport is a nest of suffering, self‐interest and barely restrained racial violence. Each of the co-rulers plots ceaselessly against their peers and works to become the undisputed lord of the pirates. Thus, the town and its inhabitants perpetually teeter on the brink of bloodshed and chaos.
Beyond Deksport’s walls, things are somewhat better; the land is fertile, and the lowland forests are stocked with game. But even here, danger seemingly lurks everywhere. Orcs and worse sometimes creep forth from the looming Forest of Gray Spires, and vague rumours of cannibalism, deviant cultist activity, and worse hang over several of the peninsula’s villages.
Design Creighton Broadhurst and Richard Green Cartography Tommi Salama
