The Sovereign Councillors of the city-state of Terrkarn have decided that they want more tasty trading partners to swindle. Since the south is all disgusting desert with no end in sight, they have decided to commission an expedition northwards and then westwards, exploring beyond the Exaanos-Rahmtʊ strait.

A trading fleet of a half-dozen or so vessels, each carrying a half-dozen or so men, with provisions for a half-week or so, plus equipment for foraging and fishing, and a handful of trinkets and trade good samples, has thusly been dispatched under the able command of the Lord Saresto, the head of a minor merchant family not represented on the Council, and an experienced seafaring captain and mercantile negotiator.

Map of the intended route taken by the expedition.