The Story of the Black Mary

This page covers material learned during the various quests of the Ravenfell quest series.

The Black Mary was a legendary pirate ship, the flagship of the Black Sail Pirates, captained by the infamous. Her first mate was. Pannisa, (aka Vivian Rhodes) and  (aka Lanarus) were also aboard.

A large part of her success was credited to her lookout,. He had a that, apparently, required him to stay sober for it to function (truly a curse fit for a pirate).

One dark night, Luke was distracted, for just a moment, and the Black Mary struck a reef. Huck's baby daughter, Elsbeth, was thrown overboard into freezing waters. His wife, Ely Nausicaa, jumped overboard to save the child but both were lost. They washed ashore along the but  was injured and dying. With the last of her energy she placed her baby, Elsbeth, in a breeding nest,and died.

Elsbeth was raised by the s (which explains her odd manner of speech). Today she is known as, the Old Turtle Lady.

The Black Mary and her crew found an incredible treasure and, in the moments that followed, Huck mutinied and took over from, killing anyone that would not follow him. Despite 's bloodthirsty purge of the disloyal, a number of people did escape including Haniya, Pannisa, and, who reformed their crew as the Black Blood Merchants of.

Shortly after died,  planned to put a vicious curse on the mutineers but he was discovered and cruelly killed. In the moment of death he was possessed by an evil spirit of great power and forced them all to flee.

and the mutineers still fly the pirate flag, but now they call themselves the Shadowmoon Pirates. The Curse they are under has horribly transformed them all into s!

The new captain found a legendary treasure map. In the difficult voyage to find the treasure the ship was run aground by a storm... right into the sunken ancient city described by the map! They found the treasure of gold coins but the Gold Coins they had found turned out to be cursed and, one by one, all of them have died except for, in the.

But the curse was not finished with them. They have been "revived" as the undead pirates of, guarding forever the.