The Tide-Weavers

The Tide-Weavers are an independent faction of salvager-scholars who excavate the mist-choked ruins of Greyvast for valuable moon fragments. They sell to anyone � Valdenmoor's desperate lords, Pale Dominion priest-mages, Oathbound Remnant scouts � and ask no questions about how the buyer intends to use the shards. Neutrality is their trade, and survival their creed. Their leader, Shard-Priestess Lyraea, is a pragmatic former scholar from Greyvast's royal academy who saw the fall coming and chose profit over patriotism. The Tide-Weavers operate from the Crypt of the Moonlit Depths, a partially submerged ruin on the edge of Greyvast's drowned capital that they have fortified into a trading post and research outpost. Their salvager crews � known as 'Tide-Runners' � are skilled divers, navigators of the perpetual mist, and negotiators who can out-talk or out-fight anyone. But something has changed. In the deepest flooded chamber of Mournwater Keep, Lyraea's inner circle discovered something carved into the bedrock � symbols that predate the Celestial Fracture by centuries. They have not shared this discovery. The Tide-Weavers have stopped selling the most potent fragments from the deepest levels. The price of their usual stock has quietly doubled. They are preparing for something.

Connections

• operates-in → Northern Velkaris (region)
• excavates-ruins-of → Greyvast, the Sunken Throne (kingdom)
• trades-in-fragments-of → Yssara of the Shattered Moon (god)
• sells-fragments-to → Valdenmoor, the Ashen Crown (kingdom)
• reluctantly-trades-with → The Pale Dominion (kingdom)
• competes-with-for-ruins-access → The Oathbound Remnants (faction)
• excavates-ruins-created-by → The Fall of Greyvast (event)