The Savage Tide was the name of the catastrophe that befell the ancient Olman city of Thanaclan, and gave the Isle of Dread its infamous name. The Savage Tide was a plague of destruction and madness orchestrated by Demogorgon and his Kopru minions, and unleashed by one of the dreaded Shadow Pearls.
Background:
For generations, Thanaclan was a glorious and thriving Olman City-State, but the Olman of the city could not have known they had an unseen enemy. Long before the first Olman settlers landed here from the Saffron Isles, the Isle of Dread had been in the possession of the Kopru; an evil race of aquatic creatures. The Kopru themselves had once commanded a great empire, but by this date, that empire was in sharp decline. The Kopru had a reputation for three things; their great intelligence, their cruelty, and their absolute devotion to their deity; Demogorgon. Working with the Demon-Lord, the Kopru labored for decades in their plans to destroy the Olman trespassers. Kopru sorcerers and priests labored in dark subterranean lairs unfolding their vile plot; the creation of the largest black pearl the world had ever seen. This was no ordinary pearl, but rather,one of the dreaded Shadow Pearls. Spawned by a gigantic fiendish oyster, and imbued with Demogorgon's demonic powers, the pearl was both irresistibly beautiful and deadly. When the great black pearl was completed, The Kopru released the pearl in a place where they knew the Olman would find it. The trap was set.
Olman pearl fishers soon found the ebony prize and triumphantly brought it back to Thanaclan, where the pearl was ensconced on the altar of the high Olman temple, as a trophy from the Gods. But once in place, the curse of the pearl began, corrupting everything it came in contact with. Soon the Olman Gods turned their backs on Thanaclan. The effects the curse grew ever stronger, and the resulting calamities grew. Terrible storms battered the island, crops failed, wild beats began rampaging the city, and a eerie fog descended upon Thanaclan. Soon the very ground beneath the city began to shake violently. In a panic, the Olman priests tried to use magic to cast the pearl into another dimension. But this final enchantment only sealed their doom. The pearl opened and an oily, green mist poured forth, engulfing the entire city. Soon after, a great explosion rocked the central plateau of the island, opening up a gateway between worlds. In a rush of filthy water, the entire city of Thanaclan was consumed by the Abyssal domain of Demogorgon. The entire region was saturated by this dark force, and those Olman not immediately killed were driven completely mad with "Savage Fever". This fever infected all of the Olman, who soon succumbed into a violent, homicidal rage that consumed their entire population on the island.
Now, after thousands of years, the true masters of the Isle of Dread look upon new targets, new cities beyond the horizon, compelled by the hateful will of their demonic lord Demogorgon to prepare for the coming glory. this time, the doom will not be limited to one hapless city. This time, all of civilization waits unknowing, blissfully ignorant of what the incoming tide brings in.
Our story begins in the small coastal city of Sasserine, located in the Rockdale region of Avokhar; home of the vast Sanjaara Jungle….
- Chapter 1 - A Gathering of Heroes
- Chapter 2 - Trouble On The Nixie
- Chapter 3 - A-Vaulting We Will Go
- Chapter 4 - Scooby-Doo Time
- Chapter 5 - Shefton and Idae
- Chapter 6 - Into the Den of Thieves
- Chapter 7 - Where There's Smoke There's Fire
- Chapter 1 - Ouch, Mutated Dinosaurs Hurt
- Chapter 2 - Poor, Poor Stupid Shefton
- Chapter 3 - Idae and Viselys Have a Little Chat
- Chapter 4 - To Sasserine!!!!
- Chapter 5 - BLOURP!!!!
- Chapter 6 - A Diamond In Your Back Is Better Than A Frog In Your Throat
- Chapter 7 - Things That Go BOOM In The Night
- Chapter 8 - SSHHH!!! I'm Sneaking Up On You
Book 3 - The Sea Wyvern's Wake
- Chapter 1 - One Ship, Two Ship, Red Ship, Blue Ship
- Chapter 2 - And for dessert ... pickled mephit???
- Chapter 3 - A chatty hussy, an exuberant child, and a haunted passenger walk onto a boat...
- Chapter 4 - Careful, Don't Hurt Yourself...(aka The Redcap Attack)
- Chapter 5 - Score One for Saris (A Celebration Fit for Heroes)
- Chapter 6 - Dr. Ornrik to the O.R. .... Dr. Ornrik to the O.R. ... STAT!
- Chapter 7 - Hey, I remember you!
- Chapter 8 - But, I Don't Think She Can Swim Like That...
- Chapter 9 - Into the Tamoachan Ruins With a Giddy Gnome
- Chapter 10 - Boy, These Things Are HEAVY
- Chapter 11 - One, Two, Freddy's Coming For You...
- Chapter 12 - Which Part of the Plan Was THAT???
- Chapter 13 - A Night To Remember
- Chapter 14 - If Two Heads Are Better Than One...
- Chapter 15 - What, Not Even A Wine Cellar???
- Chapter 16 - Avner Tries to Strike a Deal
- Chapter 17 - Boy, This Crew Sure Likes to Party
- Chapter 18 - It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's ... Miles and Miles of Seaweed???
- Chapter 19 - They're coming...
- Chapter 20 - Brotherly Love; It's So Sweet Sometimes
- Chapter 21 - “I Discovered I Scream The Same Way Whether I'm About To Be Devoured By A Great White Or A Piece Of Seaweed Touches My Foot"
Book 4 - Here There Be Monsters
- Chapter 1 - “Anybody hear that? It's an... It's an impact tremor, that's what it is... I'm fairly alarmed here”
- Chapter 2 - Six Foot Turkeys!
- Chapter 3 - Another Rumble in the Jungle
- Chapter 4 - I Knew an Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly...
- Chapter 5 - "What are you going to do if we are attacked in the night by more of those giant turkeys? Wave your beard at them?!”
- Chapter 6 - Gee, That Giant Centipede Hanging On The Wall Above Our Heads Looks Heavy…
- Chapter 7 - Never Knew Lonely
- Chapter 8 - My Mummy, My Mummy, Wherever I Go, He Goes…
- Chapter 9 - Didn't We Have A Thief With Us At One Time?
- Chapter 10 - "Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day."
- Chapter 11 - “Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargoyle.”
- Chapter 12 - "We cannot see it, but it sees the heat of our bodies and the heat of our fear…"
- Chapter 13 - "The Only Thing We Have To Fear Is ... Fear Ourselves!"
- Chapter 14 - Too Little, Too Late
- Chapter 15 - The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice ... At Least
- Chapter 16 - …And in the master’s chambers, They gathered for the feast, They stab it with their steely knives, But they just can’t kill the beast…
- Chapter 17 - Nothing Like a Good Field Appendectomy to Put a Guy in His Place … or Turn Him Into a Horse Thief
- Chapter 18 - Hey, Brother, Have You Seen My Finger?
- Chapter 19 - Die, You Damn Dirty Ape!
- Chapter 20 - We Will, We Will, Rock You, Rock You!
- Chapter 21 - "There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors"
- Chapter 1 - Welcome to Farshore
- Chapter 2 - You Can't Save Both Of Them
- Chapter 3 - What exactly is an "eos" and why would I want one?
- Chapter 4 - Wow, that IS unusually urgent
- Chapter 5 - I don't think that's what Whitman had in mind...
- Chapter 6 - I love it when a plan comes together!
- Chapter 7 - Well, she/it wasn't lying...
- Chapter 8 - Masada
- Chapter 9 - Funeral For A Friend
- Chapter 10 - I Will Remember You
- Chapter 11 - Return to Tanaroa
- Chapter 12 - A Trip to the Tar Pits
- Chapter 13 - Zotzilaha's Wrath
- Chapter 14 - Visiting the Phanatons
- Chapter 15 - Reunion at Tanaroa
- Chapter 16 - Oh, My God! It's A Giant Squash!
- Chapter 17 - Viselys To The Rescue
- Chapter 18 - The Temple of the Jaguar
- Chapter 19 - Return to the Blue Nixie
- Chapter 20 - The Coming Storm
- Chapter 21 - Crimson Sunset
- Chapter 1 - The Battle of Farshore; Aftermath
- Chapter 2 - "See the Turtle of Enormous Girth...
- Chapter 3 - The Wreck of the Gallivant
- Chapter 4 - “What an incredible smell you've discovered!”
- Chapter 5 - Cult of Taint
- Chapter 6 - "How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?"
- Chapter 7 - "Now, will you go down there and tell Mr. Roper that I promise we are going to be quiet from now on
- Chapter 8 - The Way to Barbas
- Chapter 9 - Visiting Barbas
- Chapter 10 - Temple of the Ancient Ones
- Chapter 11 - Hall of the Dreamers
- Chapter 12 - Golismorga; City of Madness
- Chapter 13 - ...And We Shall Call Him "Bob"
- Chapter 14 - Planning A Tour Of The Pyramid
- Chapter 15 - Assault On The Ziggurat
- Chapter 16 - The Aftermath
- Chapter 17 - The Guardian of Tlalok's Tear
- Chapter 18 - Ghost of Madness
- Chapter 19 - Quadrille With a Mock Turtle
- Chapter 20 - Into The Ocean, But No Goodbye
Book 7 - The City of Broken Idols
- Chapter 1 - Heroes With A Half-Shell
- Chapter 2 - Family Business
- Chapter 3 - The Central Plateau
- Chapter 4 - Mantru
- Chapter 5 - Taboo Island
- Chapter 6 - Taboo Temple
- Chapter 7 - A Downward Detour
- Chapter 8 - The Inner Temple
- Chapter 9 - The Pyramid and the Prison Camp