Anyone who takes the sea route to the southern lands - The Silver Cities, Heresh, the lands of the Desert Orcs - must sail the Heron's Neck channel past the Border Islands. In the past the islands were useless strips of land but now, cleared of Orcs freebooters, flotillas of ships are sailing through their waters. Due to this, of course, many people would like to lay their hands on the islands in order to charge tolls and levies for the right to trade with the South.

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