Velvet Tide

The Velvet Tide is Aethertide’s most elusive and intoxicating faction—a clandestine guild of courtesans, spies, and assassins whose influence flows not through fleets or fear, but through desire, secrets, and illusion. Based in the shadowed chambers of [@The Velvet Undertow] in Tidewatch, they gather whispers like pearls and rewrite tides with a glance.

Leadership – @Madam Yllvara

At the helm is @Madam Yllvara , a siren-blooded elf with perfect memory and a voice said to lull truth from the boldest liars.

  • She never appears the same way twice

  • Her perfume changes with intent: truth, lust, sorrow, or death

  • Holds immunity in every major port, including @Red Sail Cay and @Pearlspire

Roles Within the Tide

The Velvet Tide is composed of layered identities and masks:

  • Riptide Couriers – Elite envoys and messengers, trained in seduction, escape, and code-embedding

  • Moonhands – Local operatives who manage social nets, rumor webs, and blackmail archives

  • Sable-Kissed – Assassins who kill without trace, known by touchless poison and dream-venom

All members bear a hidden tattoo @Whisperbrand of the Velvet Tide , only visible when exposed to their unique scented signature perfume.

Tools & Magic

  • Perfume Alchemy – Blends that influence mood, trust, memory, or hallucination

  • Silk Glyphs – Enchanted threads woven into garments that carry hidden messages or arcane charges

  • Velvet Mirrors – One-way scrying tools used in boudoirs and safehouses

Their magic is soft, invasive, and lingering—like the scent they leave behind.

Influence & Territory

While rooted in @Tidewatch City at @The Velvet Undertow the Velvet Tide has operatives in:

  • @Free Keys – Courtesans in pirate courts and smuggler dens

  • @Coral Crown – Whispered ties to nobility and prophetic lovers

  • @Myrrh Atolls – Pleasure barges and spice-houses masked as bathhouses

Wherever pleasure and privacy meet, the Tide flows.

Secrets & Seduction

The Velvet Tide trades in:

  • State secrets and faction movements

  • Emotional leverage and forgotten pasts

  • Assassinations veiled as passion

Their currency is trust—and no one spends it as deftly.

Allies & Intrigue

  • Allies: Informal cooperation with the @The Brackish Consortium and @The Hearthbound Concord

  • Enemies: Suspected infiltration by the @The Veythane Empire has sparked silent war, rumors say they already have agents in the @Stormshroud Shogunate

  • Neutral: The @The Free Keys Confederacy tolerate them—until crossed

Some Stormcallers consider them heretical, others hire them.

Sayings in Silk

"Power tastes best on the tongue of the unseen."

"Every tide starts with a whisper."

The Velvet Tide is no mere brothel—it is a force of soft revolution, draped in allure, veiled in threat, and always listening.