"The shipyards, a good place to move illict cargo or lay low for a while, but that ship yard in Philly, it's not a place you want to frequent, not if you wish to keep yer skin on anyway."

A city location with a slight horror slant, suitable for any modern day horror/action setting.

Slaughter Rock is a northern township known for brooding rocky terrain, a robust whaling industry, and the Kaulder Priory

Phantom Island is a small island beset by ghosts

The islets are all that remains of the Island of Yava

The Shussion-Chifuni are a pet project of Nippon and the ACPS

A semi mobile fortress placed in the mouths of rivers, bays, and other bodies of water up to several miles off shore

Also known as aquastats or hydrostations, the submersible cities of the Eurasian Alliance

A quiet island, with a small fishing village, a decent dock, a sheltered lagoon, friendly natives ... and a chilling curse.

Fifteen men on a dead man's chest

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum

Drink and the devil had done for the rest

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

The mate was fixed by the bosun's pike

The bosun brained with a marlinspike

And cookey's throat was marked belike

It had been gripped by fingers ten;

And there they lay, all good dead men

Like break o'day in a boozing ken

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

An Amazon nation in the Cosmic Era

The Reposians, unlike the rest of Atheus, respect rather than fear the sea. In fact, this respect has grown to border on love and dependence. It is a fact, naturally, that most of Reposian exports are seafoods, and most of its income is from sea-based reasons, from oceanic trading vessels to fish.

Once known by another name, the port city of Dragon's Wake suffered terrible tragedy, from which it is still recovering.

'They said it would bring us a new age of wonder, of exploration, of excitement. I don't think this is what they meant: us scurrying around like rats in our cities of steam and steel, far away from the land and the sun.'

The Pacific Rim coalition is one of the New Earth Governments of the Cosmic Era

Where Gods go to Grieve

Somewhere along the line, someone decided that a giant swimming pool would make a great place for a rave club

The Sanguis Islands is an archipelago nation. Dangerous to sail through them, the people who live there are self-sufficient, independant, stuborn, and resilient.

Madmen, Riddles, and Worms

'Aye, I've been to Bloodmaw. Its out in the ocean, and lies right on the Abez-Evetepor trade route. Or at least where the trade route would have been if it wasn't for Bloodmaw. Its this maelstrom, perpetually spinning and swirling, abou' 50 yards across? And the sea around the whole thing is a deep crimson. The color of blood. And around the whole thing is a storm. Some days the Bloodmaw is sated, and isn't as violent. But some days ye can't hope to survive. On bad days it can take a ship that a mile away. Thank the gods that it didn't take me.'

-Old Gerald, man in the pub

The island city state of Seng Chiu is perhaps better remembered as Singapore