Black Ship
From MYSTlore
The Pirates of the Black Ships was a tribe that destroyed an island city of the Mechanical Age. The pirates were eventually defeated when Atrus built a fortress and thus helped the few survivors to repel the Black Ships' final attack.
It was said that the sky above the fortress would only turn from its constant gray color when the black ships were destroyed. Sometime after Sirrus and Achenar ravaged and abandoned Mechanical, when the Stranger visited the Age, the sky was blue, signifying that the brothers, while plundering their father's Ages, also destroyed the black ships as well.
The Book of the Black Ships comic book goes into more detail on the Black Ships. Sirrus and Achenar are portrayed as allying with Ebony Cardinal, their grotesque leader and being initiated into their religion. However, the comic is apocryphal.
A flag of the Black Ships can be found in Sirrus' bedroom in Stoneship. While this hints that he was perhaps allied with them, it could also have been a prize Sirrus got for himself after defeating them.
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- Mentioned in Atrus's Mechanical Age journal.
