Xue Yunfeng looked down at the nautical chart in his hands, a sly smile spreading across his face.
He couldn't navigate on his own, true, but he knew how to find pirates!
If his surprise attack worked, heh! There'd be one less row of bounties for Northlands pirates!
He glanced smugly back at Aglaia City's docks. Those silly kids were asking the Harpers to track down pirates. As if they'd find anything.
Those Good Alignment Harpers would be doing well just to figure out Luskan.
The people with real connections were the Winter Maiden's messenger-priestesses!
They weren't particularly capable, and nobody took those Northlands girls seriously. That was exactly why people from every alignment entrusted them with letters. Especially the Evil Alignment—who else could they ask to deliver a letter besides a priestess of Winter?
Any girl brave enough to attempt the Winter Maiden's initiation and succeed would have no shortage of resolve or intelligence. She would know how to make the best choice.
Anyone willing to risk her life would be quick to sell out the pirates once she no longer depended on them to survive.
Ever since Xue Yunfeng had learned about the initiation, he'd been trying to establish friendly relations with the priestesses. He had only just succeeded.
Well, it wasn't really that they'd grown close. He'd simply offered enough money.
Their main base might be in Ten-Towns, and they might travel as far as Waterdeep or Silver Moon City only during the two coldest months, but those Winter priestesses knew every faction's territory across Faerûn's Northern Continent.
In the days when Extreme Winter had frozen the Sword Coast for a good while, they had often been hired to deliver things to nearby islands.
They had no reason to fear the pirates. Nobody would choose to harm