Brackish Consortium

The @The Brackish Consortium is a veiled network of black market merchants, salvage-brokers, and alchemical traders who operate in the shadows of Aethertide’s commerce. While not overtly criminal, their dealings skirt the edge of legality—trading in forbidden relics, sea-beast parts, and miracle concoctions whose origins are best left unspoken.

Rooted in the flooded catacombs of the @Brackish Vaults beneath Tidewatch’s underbelly, the Consortium thrives where regulation fails.

Creed & Conduct

The Consortium thrives on three principles:

  • Trade without restriction

  • Silence before scrutiny

  • Mutual protection over profit

Each member swears an Unspoken Pact, sealed with an obsidian coin that bears the sigil of the Consor. No written charter exists—only hand signals, coded scents, and wave-embroidered markings passed through generations.

Goods & Services

Consortium wares include:

  • Alchemical elixirs distilled from abyssal flora

  • Cursed salvage from @The Gyre of Lost Souls and @The Ashlock Reefs

  • Enchanted kraken bone jewelry

  • Forbidden spell-ink for use in Cartomancy

Services provided:

  • False identities and documents

  • Contraband shipping routes

  • Private contracts for quiet acquisition or retrieval

Trade Routes & Reach

Though rooted in the @Brackish Vaults , the Consortium’s reach spans:

  • @Free Keys – Pirate-run isles rife with hidden ports

  • @Coral Crown – Subtle dealings with sea-elf nobility

  • @Myrrh Atolls – Spiced goods and mind-altering incense

  • Floating markets cloaked in illusion and drift-smoke

  • Trying to establish contacts with @Stormshroud Shogunate to expand their business

Deals are often made on moving ships or in drowned ruins, where no one listens but the sea.

Symbols & Identification

Members may be recognized by:

  • A braided cord bracelet of black kelp and silver thread the @Brackish Consortium Bracelet

  • An obsidian coin marked with an unfathomable wave pattern

  • Stalls and gear draped in dark fabrics with subtle embroidery

Each merchant’s mark is unique, but all trace back to the Vault’s original sigil.

Structure & Secrecy

There is no formal hierarchy—only cells, each autonomous but allied. Trusted figures include:

  • Whispershells – Traders of secrets and memory-tinctures

  • Saltbinders – Experts in preservation and body-part enchantment

  • Curios – Rogue scholars and relic-sellers who barter with riddles

Leadership, if it exists, is masked by myth and misdirection.

Allies & Conflicts

  • Allies: Some captains in the @The Free Keys Confederacy , independent gnomish tinkers, and outcast alchemists

  • Enemies: The @The Veythane Empire considers them subversive; @The Tideforged Armada targets their smugglers

  • Neutral: The @The Velvet Tide may share intel, but never openly

Sayings in the Smoke

"Coin speaks. Kelp binds. Wave forgets."

"If you want purity, go drink rain. We trade in what matters."

The Brackish Consortium endures in silence, behind veils of brine and smoke—for every law has its shadow, and the Consortium walks there with purpose.