Sites of Interest of the Floral Sea

The Hives: Spread all across the Floral Sea are massive Hives the homes of the Bee-Folk. Scattered all across the sea the Hives dominate the skyline. A single hive might have thousands of Bee-Folk residents. While they rarely war with one another, border skirmishes, mostly involving each other’s Wax Golems are common. The Hives are not built for humans, but many have hostels made from discarded ships and driftwood for visitors.

Jerimiah’s Place: Jerimiah Almsworth was a sycophant, pomp, and all around brown noser of the highest order all across the Major Powers. Chased out from the Known Seas for, in his words, ‘entertaining the advances of the wives and daughters of no less than three counts of the United Empire at the same time,’ Jerimiah found refuge in the Floral Sea where his cog ship got beached on a sandbar.

Jerimiah gets by on selling his skills in royal flattery making himself indispensable for Bee-Folk looking to impress their queens. His advice does not come cheap however, and has netted him large amounts of wax, honey, royal jelly, rare flowers, and four of his own personal wax golems. Jerimiah sells the goods to passing ships and this trade has allowed him to turn his ship into a lavish, albeit lonely, pleasure palace.

Anderson Meadery: Ingred Anderson has spent a small fortune relocation her family’s struggling meadery from the Solvang Clan Holds to the Floral Sea but it has all been worth it. Having the first choice of honey and being so close to the raw product has allowed Anderson Meadery to make more, better, and cheaper mead than any other company. The meadery is a vast complex made of white washed stone, stained yellow from the pollen. The facility is built entirely on stilts and consists of the winery, warehouses, docks, and small village for the hundred or so workers. Around the clock squadrons of Bee-Folk and Wax Golems transport hexagonal wax drums filled with honey here for processing. The import docks are sticky with spilt honey. While the meadery is an impressive feat of architecture, it is not Ingred’s greatest construction. Her masterpiece, and the secret to the meadery’s success, is another structure, the Resplendent Apiary.

Resplendent Apiary: This large wood and wax structure is lavishly appointed with mahogany and wax walls with bas relief carvings of various queens from the Known Seas and serves as a finishing school designed for the princesses of the Hives. Here stern faced headmistresses educate princesses in proper etiquette, manors, and occasionally academics. The young queens also get something here that they cannot from the Hives, influence and connections, both to the other queens and to forces outside of the Floral Sea. The tuition for this school is high, payed in thousands of barrels of honey, but the Bee-Folk gladly pay it, as the alumni of this school are some of the strongest and most influential queens in the Floral Sea.

Assassins Fields: The Floral Sea is home to almost every kind of flower imaginable. Most of these are prosaic, sweet smelling things like wild flowers and roses, the kind of things you might find in a grandmothers garden. There are, however; patches of flowers more nefarious. Opium poppies, nightshade, black lotus, and other flowers coveted for their sinister qualities can be found in small fields all across the Floral Sea. Unsavory types often jealousy guard these patches, using the crops to their own ends or selling them to the highest bidders. Fiercely protective and territorial these gangs will attack anything that gets close to their turf.

The Bohemian Groves: Scattered across the Flora Sea are small communes established by self-appointed gurus, poets, philosophers, musicians, and counterculture youths, drop outs and ‘mind expanders.’ These settlements are ramshackle, made of mostly sail cloth tens and driftwood shacks. They lack any sort of industry and their diets are based off of the flowers, mostly seeds, salads, and tisanes made from boiled petals. These settlements are more than willing to trade, but will only barter, they, like, refuse to use currency, man. There are two reasons why the ne’er-do-wells of the Assassin Fields have not raided or strong arm these settlements. One, they lack anything of real value. Two, the communes all know the secret to making a powerful narcotic derived from flower petals, that when burned and inhaled invokes a wave of blissful complacency, confusion, and a hunger for junk food. If the communes fear that they will be raided, they just burn large piles of the stuff up wind of their settlements.

Terra De las Flores De La Sol: This island is solely covered in sunflowers that arch their heads to following the never setting sun of the Floral Sea. Considered by the Church of The Lightbringer to be a holy spot, a church and a small monastery have been erected in a clearing on the island. The monks here export sunflower oil and large bags of sunflower seeds that are popular with sailors.