Sharkfeather Abyss

Sharkfeather Abyss is an underwater trench in the Lucidian Ocean located nearby to the Clovis Concord village of Palma Flora.

Description
The ocean trench of Sharkfeather Abyss is located to west of Flora Isle, just off the southern coast of the Vezdali Peninsula. The trench is hundreds of feet deep, and at least three hundred wide at one end.

Society
The trench is home to a group of several dozen shark herding sahuagin named the Sharkfeather clan. In 835 PD, this clan is lead by a high priestess named Selachai, who defeated the previous high priestess in ritual combat.

Background
For generations the Sharkfeather clan 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 the parents of a sahuagin named Selachai 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.

Tide of Retribution
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. When the aftershock hit, Flora Isle began to sink into Sharkfeather Abyss.

The island settled into a corner of the trench, becoming wedged one hundred feet below the surface. There Selachai conducted rituals on the corpses of Flora Isle's citizens, turning them into sharkbody abominations Selachai was later confronted by an adventuring party hired by the Revelry pirate captain Three Earrings. She was defeated, and the party retrieved her Rod of Retribution.