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Black Brine

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Black Brine’s a rotting tooth on an island of darkness, slick with salt, sin, and secrets best left buried. The mist never lifts, the gods never sleep, and no one dies clean. Power belongs to cutthroats and cults, and coin buys less than a well-placed knife. Taverns drip with blood and confession. Deals are struck in whispers, broken in screams. Out here, loyalty’s just leverage, and survival’s a sacred art. Welcome to Black Brine—hope you brought something sharp.


Author's Note: Black Brine is a dark, character-driven D&D setting set on the cursed island of Sedna shrouded in mist and ruled by superstition, secrets, and ancient gods. Blending nautical horror, occult mystery, and intrigue, it’s a brutal sandbox where power has a price and loyalty is ever-shifting. Players take on the roles of rogues, mystics, and mercenaries fighting to survive in a world drowning under its own forgotten sins.
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Black Brine
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Black Brine squats on the edge of the world like a secret too bitter to bury. Ten miles south of the place where the Black River’s fresh heart meets the Brine’s salt sting, the Black Brine River cuts through the city like a scar. The mist never lifts. It clings to crooked streets where fortunes are won with a knife and lost with a smile. The city’s ruled by the Captains’ Council—cutthroats dressed in power’s finery. Above them all sails Gun Deck Rosy, pirate queen and Sedna’s high priestess, her word law, her fleets the teeth of the city. The pirate crews are as varied as the sins that built them: some hunt in silence, some kill for coin, some for sport, but all bow—if only on the surface—to Rosy’s rule. Black Brine thrives on secrets, smuggling, and salt. The docks groan under stolen cargo. The taverns hum with lies. And beneath it all, the river whispers, dragging down the dead and the unlucky. Here, loyalty is bought, truth is dangerous, and survival is the sharpest blade of all.

Appearance

Black Brine rises from the mist like a bad memory—stone soaked in salt, wood blackened by smoke. The river cuts through it, oily and dark, whispering secrets to the sea. Gulls shriek overhead, drowned out by the clash of hammers and the mutter of crooked deals. The air reeks of fish, tar, and old brandy. Streets glisten with rain and rot. The city feels tight, watching, waiting—every shadow a threat, every smile a trap. It hums with hunger, and no one leaves clean.

This work includes material taken from the System Reference Document 5.1 (“SRD 5.1”) by Wizards of the Coast LLC . The SRD 5.1 is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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