Flotsam Graveyard

The Flotsam Graveyard is a large fields of shipwrecks that poses a hazard to shipping through to Absalom's harbor or the harbor on the northern shore of the Devil's Belly, and serves to protect the cities from foreign navies. No ship that carries more than six people or 500 pounds of cargo may sail through the Flotsam Graveyard helmd by its own pilot; instead, a trained helmsman from the Harbormaster's Grange must direct the craft through the hazard. A tax is assessed by the city for the use of a pilot as well as the docking fee, which captains pay because any ship that wrecks in the harbor is forfeit to the primarch of Absalom or any pirate's who may reach it first. Between the pirate's off the shore of the Rebel Isle and Absalom's naval defenses, many vessels have met their end in this massive watery grave.