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=Tide of Retribution=

Tide of Retribution is a starting adventure in Explorer's Guide to Wildemount, taking place in 835 PD. The adventure takes a party from level 1 to level 3.

Background
For generations the sahuagin clan of Sharkfeather Abyss had feuded with the citizens of the Clovis Concord village of Palma Flora over their tradition of shark hunting. The Sharkfeather clan annually raids the village to spoil the shark hunting tournament, but was easily repelled by the village's hunters and mercenaries. When sahuagin Selachai's parents were killed in one of these raids in 834 PD, she prayed for vengeance and made a pact with the leviathan Uk'otoa. He granted her a scepter, a Rod of Retribution, to seal this pact. With her new powers, Selachai rose through the ranks of the Sharkfeather clan and sought to lead a deadly raid against Palma Flora.

Through informants keeping tabs on Palma Flora and the Sharkfeather clan, the Revelry pirate Three Earrings learned about Selachai and her newfound magic, as well as their plan to raid the village. Three Earrings and her crew set course on her ship, the Wavechaser, to be in Palma Flora during the attack in order to plunder the ruins of the town after it was done.

Attack on Flora Isle
In 835 PD, when Palma Flora was one again preparing for its shark hunting festival, Selachai set her plan into motion. Using the Rod of Retribution as a conduit to her patron, Uk'otoa thrashed within his prison beneath the Lucidian Ocean, wracking Flora Isle with an earthquake. During this, the sahuagin raiders attacked the island.

An adventuring party present on the island's southern beach sprung into action, defending a pair of teenage shark hunters, Elanza and Joao. When the island was struck by the earthquake's aftershock, it became apparent that Flora Isle was sinking into Sharkfeather Abyss. Elanza urged the party to flee to the eastern docks and escape on a ship, while Joao went north to continue the fight and help more villagers escape.

The party went north and defended a half-dozen villagers swimming across the channel to the northern part of Palma Flora from a sahuagin telepathically commanding a group of sharks. They then went to the docks and aided the crew of the Wavechaser in fending off another pair of sahuagin and their trained giant crabs, with the help of a young acolyte named Aurelio. The party and any villagers they saved then boarded the Wavechaser and escaped from the sinking island.