When the Nautilus Pieces - shards of the moon gifted to the citizens of Amaura to bind the ocean in its bones - resurfaced, word of their emergence spread to every corner of Amaura. Rulers and blackguards from every corner of Amaura struggled to locate the fabled stones and seize control of the seas. The Oceanic Guard and T’samaan Investment Corporation - flexing the might in their marriage of military and economic might - cooperated to locate the magical pieces of Prince Pax’ Peace and assume dominion over the waters, while burying all competitors in bureaucracy and cannon shot. But unfortunately for them, another contender entered the race for the Nautilus Pieces.
Under the light of an ominous red moon, A collection of dishonored buffoons who had washed up in a gnomish debtors’ prison found themselves suddenly set free by an enigmatic visitor from another world - the wizard Oceanus - who united these unlikely compatriots in race to acquire the Nautilus Pieces and avert the Fathom Throne prophecy: a foretelling of the world’s doom at the hand of the God of the Sea who would rise to drown the world.
At first, the heroes’ journey to collect the Nautilus Pieces proved impossibly daunting. Dodging law enforcement from every culture while trying to find where in the entire globe they would find seven stones proved impossible until they encountered Ceric - a young boy with a strange affinity for the sea who could sense the stones whenever he was in the ocean water. Despite his insufferable optimistism, Ceric was allowed to come along with the gruff partyand eventually came to find his place among their rough crew, whose mentorship and camaraderie saved Ceric in many ways when he was cursed to become a werewolf during their perilous quest.
All the while, the heroes found themselves in tight competition with another contender for the Nautilus Pieces - a lone dragonborn named Rekië who had a curious, even ancient, connection with the Nautilus Pieces.
In an adventure that spanned the entirety of Amaura’s continents and pulled the heroes into fraught conflicts with nature, monsters, mermaids, politicians, imprisonment, famine, plague, darkness and sword - the heroes prevailed only in assembling the pieces for Rekië who took them into himself and became the monstrous Leviathan cursed by Martuë - the last king of the Seafolk - to destroy the world in water.
But the God of the Sea had other intentions. Through the heroes and especially through Ceric the God of the Sea brought Rekië out the other side of his anger and disappointment and abandonment into life, into family, and into the dawn of Amaura’s redemption. Crowning these - his first disciples - and sending them into the lands of Amaura to lead them - strangely enough into relationship with the God of the Sea.