Every child in the West knows the story of the pirate warlord Kaigan and his fleet of cutthroats: how they terrorized the sea-lanes of the Wavecrest Archipelago for decades, how they met the imperial navy under the command of Peleps Ursa only to be crushed and, finally, how they vanished into the ice floes of the North, a broken and battered foe, lost to the mists of time and the crushing embrace of the frozen seas. Nothing human could survive such condi- tions, and Kaigan’s armada soon became the stuff of legend and folk tale. It now seems that the legend has returned to sail once more under the light of the sun.
