Menagerie Coast
An introduction to the Menagerie Coast. A beautifully diverse landscape of tropical islands and coasts, forests, mountains, and cliffs.
The Menagerie Coast is a tropical region located along the southwest coastline of Wildemount. Its vast shores mark the beginning of the Lucidian Ocean. It boasts a variety of environments, including lush forests, rocky cliffs and beaches, overgrown islands, and trade routes that traverse the perilous seas. The region is ruled by a nation consisting of seven city-states, which have come together to form the Clovis Concord. The Menagerie Coast is famous for its lively trade, vibrant art, performances, and excellent food, as well as its reputation for vice, piracy, and illicit business.
The Menagerie Coast's major cities include Port Damali, Feolinn, Othe, Nicodranas, Gwardan, Port Zoon, and Tussoa. Five of these cities have open shipping ports, supporting a thriving economy of goods, services, and contraband. However, the Myriad crime syndicate has a long history of involvement in the affairs of the Concord. Despite public denials of Myriad activity in the region, local guildmasters and politicians fear that the syndicate is stronger than ever.
Port Damali is a bustling city filled with music, color, and commerce. The massive port hosts ships from all around the world, creating a mishmash of cultures and trades that mingle to form the society of Port Damali.
In addition to the coastal cities, the Swavain Islands are scattered across the Lucidian Ocean, offering shipping posts, dangerous reefs, and ancient secrets hidden in the jungles. The pirates of the Revelry are a constant threat to merchants, marines, and adventurers traveling along the trade lanes. Despite the danger, travel along the Menagerie Coast can be a profitable and exciting experience, as long as adventurers know where to look.
Brokenbank is a coastal settlement built along the beautiful northern beaches of the island of the same name. Its bustling docks that are filled with foreign ships coming and going at a moment's notice. Despite its muddy streets, Brokenbank plays an important role in the trade business of the coast.
Bisaft Isle is the largest island in an archipelago located southwest of Port Damali. It is a beautiful jungle covered expanse, with nut and fruit trees, exotic creatures, and thick mangroves. The dense foliage of Bisaft is home to various creatures, and it has become a popular location for unlawful activities and hiding contraband beyond the view of the Clovis Concord.
Along the southern shore of the island lies a single bastion of civilization, known as Bisaft Post. A small village of no more than eight hundred people, the harbor town is a tropical escape for concord citizens and a surprisingly busy place of business for ships in need of resources and repairs while passing through the trade lanes of the Swavain Islands.
This eerie, fog-shrouded town is built into the southern cliff of Darktow Isle. Over a century ago, Darktow was established as a sanctuary for sailors traveling to Wildemount from Marquet or Tal'Dorei. About forty years ago, a group of aggrieved sailors and traders within the Clovis Concord rebelled against their government's excessive taxation of independent nautical businesses. The rebellious pirates conquered Darktow and claimed it as their headquarters, making this town the beating heart of piracy in the Lucidian Ocean.
Darktow's many ramshackle structures sprawl across numerous rock shelves and caverns, connected by bridges, tunnels, and rickety platforms. A vast shipyard surrounds the southern cliffs with a winding network of docks and bridges, while other fortifications bristle with cannons. Other siege weapons dot the jagged edges of the isle.
In the Explorer's Guide to Wildemount starter adventure for the Menagerie Coast, Tides of Retribution, the crew of The Wavechaser plays an integral part of the story. Most of the crew of Wavechaser are secretly Revelry pirates, as is the captain of the ship—a female tabaxi named Three Earrings.
The crew of the Wavechaser are Captain Three Earrings, First Mate Heidi Axelbeard, Boerth, Dajarkal, Kiljori, and Dillyu
