<div align="center">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/b/b8/War-manse-13.jpg)</div><br/>It is the month of Resplendent Earth, the end of the season of storms, and the Ocean Father has decided to leave his finest creation for last this year. For three days and three nights the seas have pounded the manse and the island that shelters it, hard enough that being outside of the walls was to take your life in your hands.<br/><br/>But now ... now the sun shines once more, and grumbling stormclouds drift onwards to share their bounty with others.<br/><br/>Parties are dispatched to check the island for anything unusual or dangerous that might have been blown in on the storm. One exhausted youth has just gasped out his report to the officer of the day, reporting a ship swept ashore on the far side of the island, and survivors moving about on the beach. None have come in this direction yet, but it is surely only a matter of time before they do.