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BdrLineAzn:
A complicated cave system located in the Abermar Valley, its underground tunnels are hazardous as stalagmites and stalagtites riddle the circling and floors. But it is provides merchants quick passage between the different cities in the region, if one is very knowledgeable of the tunnels. Merchants are not the only ones who also uses the tunnels, bands of raiders and pirates call the caves home and have developed a style of fast flying to travel and attack their prey. The roar of their engines echo along and bounce off the walls creating a horrifying sound to those who hears it. This tactic is used to both scare the traveling merchants and to attack quickly. One such area in the many caves see the most attacks, a single large dark cavern named aptly Banshee's Pass as the amount of noise sounds that of an angry banshee.

Silver Night

Piemanlives:
One of the oldest events on any historical record, "The Raid of Silver Night" was one of the first major forays pirate fleets made in the Burren prior to the incursion met by the Icarus and her captain Gabriel. The fleet originated in Southern Firnfeld, where the deep crevasses and high mountain ranges would provide ample cover for the gathering of pirate forces. Over the course of 2 months pirates of the northern fringe gathered as they prepared for the trek south. At the time however a majority of the force was aboard some of the few remaining armored vehicles and aircraft of the time. It gained the name "Silver Night" due to the frost encrusted upon them glittering silver under the moonlit sky upon their first encounter. After 10 weeks, no less than 16 settlements were pillaged, over 500 people either killed or had subsequently gone missing, to top it all off 2 experimental airships were looted from their hangers near the waning days of the incursion. Over the next few years pirates would begin fielding these crafts in combat and use them as mobile command stations, often entire pirate groups would collapse after the destruction of their vessels, in fact the final incursion met by Gabriel may as well have ended major pirate raids for the next several decades, due to the number of craft seemingly destroyed by him and the crew that would eventually follow him into Tura. Even though major pirate forces would once again appear, The Burren would be much better prepared to fend them off as they took battle in the skies.

White Glint

Dr Pantaleon:
The White Glint was the name of the flagship of the notorious Anglean captain Clint "Golden Glint" Herring. He got this nickname from the set of shiny gold teeth in his upper jaw. (He lost his original teeth in a terrible fishing accident)
His ship was a very fast and agile one, equipped with six extremely powerful and yet quiet engines. To this day it is not clear where he acquired them. He had the entire vessel painted white from prow to stern and every metal piece dulled or covered with bleached linen, so it would not reflect the sunlight.
Captain Herring used his unique ship to sneak up on unsuspecting ships travelling the foggy skies anywhere between the Chill Sea and the Black Channel.
His immense success was aided by a misconception. Every sailor travelling north knew the story of Golden Glint and White Glint, yet few had ever seen them and lived to tell the tale. Therefore, everybody expected the pirate ship to look like a white, silvery glint among the clouds. They all always realised too late that the ship was simply named after its narcissistic captain.


Galvanic agitator

HamsterIV:
Contrary to the technical sounding nature of the term, "Galvanic Agitator" refers to a ring leader of Anvalan Underground during the Electricity Riots of the mid 1940's. Durring that troubled decade the wealthy of the over city began lighting their homes with electricity generated in vast Acid pools located in the under city. The noxious fumes and occasional ruptured vats caused a severe drop in the standard of living of the poorer citizens of Anvala. In addition wide spread electricity use had not yet made its way down to the lower rungs of society. Certain charismatic individuals convinced large portions of the population that the battery pools and the strange power they produced were heretical and needed to be destroyed. The city watch used the code word "Galvanic Agitator" to refer to such people, believing the population would be fooled into thinking they were referring to a piece of equipment and not the ringleaders of the mob. The last Electricity Riot occurred in 1952 and was mostly attended by board upper middle class teenagers who longed for the the social injustice of times past. By that point zoning laws and the mass production of electric devices had made the generation and use of electricity a positive across the entire spectrum of society.

Melandering

BdrLineAzn:
A broken state of mind, melanders show pilots or crew members wearing a blank expression and going about "business" onboard a ship. Engineers going about repairing equipment that has been repaired, gunners holding down the trigger on an empty turret , to pilots mindlessly turning the helm. Usually contracted after a major battle of sorts, it can be a form of extreme PTSD, reacting to imaginary scenarios playing in their heads. There is no one way to bring them out of this state with treatments ranging from a simple water to the face or extreme therapy. But it cannot be treatable at all as there a re a few cases where crewmen are stuck in this state of mind.

Belmore Ranght

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