Landfall

Human hydrographer leading the Sounding Office at the Sounding Shed; makes trustworthy charts for ordinary sailors but struggles to trust anybody else's measurements.

Human furniture repairer and guest entertainer at The Best Intentions. Nell's older brother is a failed privateer seeking another berth, with useful seamanship hidden inside suspiciously improved stories.

Human former boarding captain and elected harbour chair at Borrowed Quay. Bea can coordinate a raid beautifully but struggles to make repairs happen without commanding them herself.

Human orderly and former prizefighter at the Gannet; wants to teach boxing as restraint, yet still finds it difficult to leave a foolish challenge unanswered.

Kett harbour gunner and Free Berths member at Borrowed Quay. Cora measures every shot carefully and almost every wager badly; her winnings are meant to buy a protected moulting room.

Kett quartermaster aboard The Courtesy. Dorr makes pirate daring affordable, insists on honoured crew shares and disguises affection as very precisely costed practical assistance.

Human local factor for Bellweather Shipping at Bellweather House. Gilbert is an excellent organiser of cargo and a strained performer of authority, hoping to make this posting profitable without an armed annexation.

Kett warehouse foreman at Bellweather House. Hobb remembers cargo by touch and placement, wants a secure pension and safe work, and hears unfamiliar lifting methods as criticism of his entire career.

Human pirate captain of The Courtesy, usually moored off Borrowed Quay. Striking and theatrically courteous, Inez wants a crew that stays but finds asking for help harder than boarding an armed ship.

Human careening-yard engineer at Boiler Beach; formidable laugh, sound mechanical judgement, and a weakness for accepting magnificent wreck machinery instead of an adequate fee.

Human survey assistant at the Sounding Shed and former street acrobat; nimble with a line, fluent before an audience, and sometimes one calculation behind his own announcement.

Human former raider selling recovered fixtures at Boiler Beach; wants honest wealth but admires an ingenious crooked bargain almost enough to forget why he gave up raiding.

Gilbert Senn's company depot beside the quay road, where Marta Seixas manages credit and Hobb Tin keeps useful stores moving safely.

Southern repair and salvage beach where Joan Kettle careens hulls, Luis Pardo trades recovered fittings and Mercy Dunn runs boat deliveries.

Salvaged landing stages and the Free Berths' meeting place, where Bea Rusk, Oswin Pike and Cora Venn keep the pirate port working.

Newly risen island of pirate moorings, white cliffs and unreliable navigation charms; Orra Bell guides the ridge and tends its freshwater basin.

Nell Corder's tavern in a beached brig, with rented cabins, Rufus Dace's ambitious kitchen and Pella Tack's sail loft above the drinking room.

Inez Barreto's working pirate sloop, crewed with her carpenter brother Tomas and quartermaster Dorr Mallow; home-moored off Borrowed Quay.

Sabine Holt's clinic in a beached pleasure yacht, with Bram Holt's accessible ramp and Neris Coil's medicine boxes along the rail.

Ada Fenn, Kit Roper and Vessa Reed's survey workshop above the inlet, with tide steps, chart tables and access to boats and the eastern path.

Eastern cliff terraces and tidal salvage caves worked by Rosa Salcedo, Perrin Watt and Tavish Reed; access depends on tide, ladders and sound rigging.

Landfall's major supplier and disputed claimant, represented by Gilbert Senn at Bellweather House; wants exclusive pilotage and turnstone rights.

Bea Rusk's pirate anchorage compact at Borrowed Quay: protects trade inside the inlet while its members keep raiding elsewhere.

Ada Fenn's independent charting cooperative at The Sounding Shed, selling reliable bearings while resisting a pilotage monopoly.

Broad shore crabs sheltering in hollow repair gear at Boiler Beach; nuisance scavengers that can pinch badly when handled without checking.

Flat-bodied fish hunters in the White Steps caves, territorial around nests and avoided by keeping hands out of blind underwater cracks.

Rare large offshore ray feeding on fish shoals near Landfall; its raised back fin alarms sailors more often than the animal attacks anything.

One of Landfall's three established peoples, found across crews, trades and households rather than a single national faction.

Air-breathing crustacean people with four walking legs and two grasping arms; their heavy shells need protected moulting space, not deep-water heroics.

Feathered coastal people with beaks and grasping wing-arms; able to glide or fly briefly in suitable wind, not ferry people through storms.