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Smugglers on the Paerāndas mid-storm
“It is said there are over a thousand islands in the Paerāndas, and that no one has ever visited them all.”
-Lahar, captain of the Tamarnīn
The Paerāndas are a ragged cluster of islands off the north shore of Leponnia. They are famously challenging to navigate, being full of sharp rocks, cliffs, shallows, and caves. Pirates and smugglers are known to lurk there.
The archipelago is almost entirely uninhabited, as most of its islands are too small to house villages or settlements, and the larger ones are difficult to access.
History
Fleeing the Return of the Kembar, a group of Allhammers sheltered in the Paerāndas to wait out a passing storm. There they discovered an ancient cavern with a seemingly bottomless lake at its end, inscriptions referring to a passage to Gurmakhar, and allusions to the Mad One.1
Etymology
The name Paerāndas comes from the perfective participial form of the verb phaera, paera (“break, shatter, unfurl”) inflected in the nominative plural. It means “broken (entities)“.