Tortisian Seafarers: Azmare's Silent Sea Stalkers

First of all, if you aren't playing Splinterlands yet click here to join. The sea sprawled out as far as the eye could see, tranquil, silent, with a still coldness in the air. The pirate galleon coasted along the sea in solitude, it's sails billowing silently with wind in the serene night. A few torches and lights could be seen from the deck. A few crewmen were active for night watch. Just in case something or other was spotted to fish or pillage.
"Aye, not a soul out here. Aside from us, naturally" said the pirate archer from his perch near the ships wheel.
"A bit ill of a quiet don' cha' think? No ocean, birds, fish, wind. It's almost as if the sea is hollin' it's breath" replied another pirate armed with a cutlass and flintlock, a few paced away by the mast. He then moved closer to a nearby torch mounted to the mast and rubbed his hands together for warmth.
"Wait... do ya see that?" asked the archer pointer farther down the deck at a lightly shimmering reflection.
"It's nothing just a tri-" before he could finish what were his last syllables a trio of slender throwing daggers embed themselves in his throat. That's when the archer saw what it really was. It was a small group of crouching tortisians swaddled in fine cloth that shimmered and shined to match the wood behind them.
"By the Depths what is that?! Capt-" a bolt of purple magic was tossed in tandom with another dagger. Leaving the pirate gurgling for breath, windpipe punctured and nearby torch extinquished. In complete darkened silence the three tortisian raiders crept onto the ship. They wouldn't be as sloppy as to let the rest of the crew utter a sound as they made their way about the ship. They whispered amongst themselves as they snuck into the captains quarters. His snores were cut short and his soon throat followed suit at the end of one of their slender daggers. Reptilian hands rummaged through the desk and tossed papers, trinkets, books, and various map reading devices. Until finally held before their yellow eyes was an aged scroll and charted onto it was a map, they had got what they had came for. And they left as silently as they came and dove into the water, leaving only ripples in the vast ocean.
Drawn with pencil and marker.

Above image augmented with AI.

Lore Tidbits

The Tortisian Seafarers utilize their natural tortisian traits, magic, daggers, and stealth to achieve their goals. Typically parts of mercenary companies or pirate crews, it is more uncommon to see a clan or family of tortisians at sea as a nomadic sea life style is usually more violent in AZMARE due to rampant pirate attacks and sea monster sightings. Previously a united group of islands with vestidiously passed down traditions of magic, echantment, fishing, shipcraft, and other skills as of now lost of time. These islands were displaced when the Gorlodon awoke from it's slumber. Causing many refugees and survivors to do whatever it takes to make it.

Splinterlands Twitter Ban: Moving in Silence and a Call to Arms

Moving in silence like this week's Tortisian Seafarers, Splinterlands needs your help. Splinterlands recently was banned on twitter, yes that's right, permanently. I recommend looking at the official splinterlands post here for more information.

It has taken longer than usual to announce a winner to the Plated Rex giveaway, general business on my part and a lot going on in the Splinterlands world recently. All the info you'll need about the WAX NFTs, the winner of the previous giveaway, or how to join this weeks giveaway I'll provide all that dirt and more in the next section here.

Plated Rex: Giveaway Annoucement. Splinterlands WAX NFT Tournaments Year-end and Tortisian Seafarer giveaway.

If you have been following me (which if you aren't yet you're missing out and should hit that follow button) then you are aware of the rather neat and artistic collectible spring training WAX Nfts endorsed by splinterlands and given away in an array of tournaments over the last months. The last tournament closed and the cries of battle fell silent in the arena on 6/25. However the fun doesn't end there, this is the last week to use these points. Join the discord here to find out more. So this week instead of a WAX NFT giveaway I will be giving away the Splinterlands Card Warrior of Peace. To a lucky person who likes AND comments to this post (leaving their Splinterlands username so I have a place to transfer it to of course). Are you feeling lucky?
The winner of last weeks 5 auction points was chosen completely at random of those eligible. Congratulations draygyn the 5 points have been transfered to your wax address.

Opinions, Talking Points, And Takeaways

I think it's a rather fearful thing for twitter to do on it's part which is good in one respect, they must be afraid of Splinterlands potential. I am a little surprised they were so heavy handed as Splinterlands is mostly a card game, with actual TCG and market implementation. It seems

Giveaway Winner Hive account@teca