Pathfinder Lore: Ships of the Inner Sea

[@Pathsfound]

It's also important to point out that oftentimes merchants will take both the North and South tack, since they can move pesh from Katapesh to just about all of the other cities on the South tack.

[@TheMythKeeper]

Thanks for the additional detail 🙂

[@JamesAdams-nd1td]

This was really cool in that we got to see how various nations interact with each other. You said this was unlike anything else you’ve done previously, but I personally would love to see this become the first in a new category: exploring the technologies of Pathfinder or exploring other transnational ideas (like say the magical academies of the various nations). Just a thought.

[@TheMythKeeper]

Its a great call and I could totally see about doing more of this kind of video.

[@JamesAdams-nd1td]

@@TheMythKeeper Thank you

[@TheInsatiableDrBoom]

It'd be really interested in kind doing an across the board look at tech. Where it's at what level and where. This was kind of preview of that in some sense because weirdly while many DMs get hung up on whether to have guns or not, and go right past the idea of long ships next to clippers next to ironclads.

[@Ofley_Adventures]

Incredibly inspirational to me. This is super fun to watch and for a nautical campaign I am about to start, this helps so much. Have a magnificent day everyone! Thanks for the vid.

[@TheMythKeeper]

Yes! Love it when I post a video and someone is just about to start a campaign that the video applies to!

[@MrTotalAhole]

'By Besmaras tan lines, I approve!" Fleshing out (no pun intended, but I'll go with it) the world is always a welcomed thing. Once again, you've outdone yourself. I'm really happy about this!

[@TheMythKeeper]

Haha! Thank you!

[@benjaminfeld6388]

You know, lately I've developed an interest in learning more about old-fashioned sailing ships and the like. I actually found today's video very informative.

[@TheMythKeeper]

Cool! Glad to act as a weird little nautical encyclopedia for the day.

[@flibbernodgets7018]

Currently in a Skull and Shackles campaign, this was nice to see. This is also the most concise explanation of boat terminology I've ever seen, so thanks!

[@TheMythKeeper]

Yeah, that was the first goal: a quick crash course in sailing terms to help the lay-person with their games.

[@TrevorDunseith]

I'm five seconds in and I'm so excited!

[@TheMythKeeper]

Hahahaha! Yes! What a fast response!

[@justincherry4027]

Ahhhh 1 campaign too late! We just had a flying ship in the last campaign. The upgrades you can get for it are crazy.

[@TheMythKeeper]

Well I'm sorry to disappoint but I don't mention a single flying ship in this vid! Just regular boring, water-based ships in this one.

[@Pathsfound]

This is actually incredible, because I've been doing multi-continental ship campaign travel for over a year now in my main campaign.

[@TheMythKeeper]

This is a weird video that I had no idea I was going to make until I made it, and now its immediately one of my favorites.

[@trajanfidelis1532]

Call me Ishmael.

[@Pathsfound]

The Pathfinder Tales Liar's blade has an example of ship travel covering the entire North and South tack from the arch of Aroden to all the way to osirion and back

[@TheMythKeeper]

Nice! I'm still waiting for those book summaries from you! 😅

[@Pathsfound]

@@TheMythKeeper yes! I am officially on the final book of the 38 book series, And I have officially read every single web fiction and blog post. The only thing left are some comics

[@TheMythKeeper]

@@Pathsfound That's incredible, you have out-myth-keepered the mythkeeper!

[@RyanVonAegir]

Ho ho ho! Merry.......boatmas? Jokes aside this was a unique topic to make a video for and I appreciate it!

[@TheMythKeeper]

Thank you so much!

[@jasonmcintosh3661]

Love this! Was just in the process of preparing for a Castrovin Sea campaign and this is a huge help. Thank you!

[@TheMythKeeper]

Of all the seas you were going to call out, the Castrovin was not the one I was expecting! But rock on, I'm glad you're using some of the lesser explored parts of the PF world.

[@pwillet]

Lord Captain Sir Hakar Brinecoin Salutes ya fo this matey. Ya be free to sail around Tidewater Rock any time!

[@TheMythKeeper]

Thank you!

[@Briar7862]

Well ‘bout bloody time for a palate cleanser! Last 2 vids were dark- even for November! “Safe? Sane?! Consensual?!?” Not in Nidal.

[@TheMythKeeper]

🤣🤣🤣

[@dewainearfalas]

Listening about major sea trade routes of a make-believe planet turned out to be quite an enjoyable and chill evening, thanks to your calming voice :) Love your videos, they are perfect to fall asleep halfway but I always continue the next day and finish them, they are just relaxing.

[@TheMythKeeper]

Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for listening!

[@dmeep]

avast ye landlubbers! as we landlubbers say

[@TheMythKeeper]

Hehe!

[@r4z0rv1n3]

Finally caught up to your back log... I am very excited that your next video is going to be on the Shackles. The first Pathfinder game I was brought into was Skulls & Shackles.

[@TheMythKeeper]

Then you'll have a lot of fun with my Shackles video! It's a long one and it covers absolutely everything!

[@cossack4444]

Very interesting and informative. I have a penchant for naval history and I learned all sorts of new things when watching this. Well done mate!

[@TheMythKeeper]

Glad it was helpful!

[@israelmorales4249]

Nice, thanks for the grat info, the sea is vast an full of grat adventure opportunities

[@TheMythKeeper]

You bet!

[@skysamurai4649]

Just in case of caravel, the one you have on the picture isn’t a caravel, but a schooner. Lateen sails are triangular, not rectangular

[@TheMythKeeper]

You're correct, those are the wrong sails on the caravel. Thanks for pointing that out.

[@RicardoPM777]

A very informative video for naval campaigns

[@TheMythKeeper]

Thanks as always good sir!

[@grinningbuck]

You dropped a 40-minute video on shipping lanes in Golarion? Hey, Paizo, hire this guy already!

[@TheMythKeeper]

Haha! Thank you :-)

[@TheInsatiableDrBoom]

But really though. I haven't played a campaign set in Golarion in nearly 6 years and by showing your videos has my crew just excited to play anywhere in the setting. I'm thinking of doing something involving Arazny, Nex, and Alkenstar city.

[@TheMythKeeper]

@@TheInsatiableDrBoom - Any kind of follow-up to what Arazni went through in Trant's Grasp would be a fun campaign. Honestly, if you're Arazni-curious, you could just run that 1E AP. You could probably streamline it and run it in fewer sessions as a kind of prequel to a follow-up game set in the Impossible Lands.

[@TheInsatiableDrBoom]

@TheMythKeeper 1E AP? My players just like the idea of playing a more grand political kind of thing and I thought the lore you showcased does a great job of being neutral until the players pick a side. Made me think of Fallout New Vegas, Latveria-Wakanda style deal.

[@TheMythKeeper]

@@TheInsatiableDrBoom - Yeah, a Geb/Nex/Alkenstar story in the vein of Fallout New Vegas where the players get to pick their faction would be awesome. Also, a lot of work for a GM though! I always propose starting with an Adventure Path because those games are 90% more likely to keep going. If you have the time to build your own, so much the better. It all depends on what else you have going on in your life and how much time you can dedicate to telling your own story.

[@RicardoPM777]

👏👏👏

[@Yacovo]

Thanks for the video

[@abuelo4977]

My Bloodcovian Fighter knows his local trade route by the name of "The Varisian Run". Master proficiency of both Bloodcove and Nantambu means he is able to support his merchant profession by making no more than two or three annual trips. Free Port Station is no picnic, but Whitebridge is certainly the most dangerous.

[@TheMythKeeper]

This is awesome, thanks for sharing.

[@alexwatts1064]

Now I gotta write some Pathfinder sea shanties. Great video! Looking forward to the Shackles video and would absolutely be down for more miscellaneous topics like this.

[@TheMythKeeper]

Awesome! Glad you liked it and thanks for watching and commenting!

[@Red_Eye_Wonder]

yesss. Ive been waiting for this and the shackles and im so stoaked for all the content. So much information in this one, You never disappoint! Currently running a shackles campaign in the devils arches/darklands so this is very helpful.

[@TheMythKeeper]

Awesome! That sounds like a great concept. There are a few Darklands connections I do explore in my Shackles video next week.

[@balrighty3523]

36:15 It’s times like this that I wish Paizo would just give us a full world map. So many references to peoples and places off the edge of the Inner Sea map that the characters would know but that the players don’t have a clue. When my catfolk speaks of his home nation of Murraseth with pride, is he inflating the importance of three whole cities? Is it actually a respectably sized region on par with Osirion or Cheliax? Is it the entire southern half of Garund and he’s really being humble? No clue!

[@TheMythKeeper]

If it helps, that is the canonical world-map, it just doesn't have the detailed nation borders on it. And Murraseth isn't arbitrarily placed by me, I did as much research as I could to try and place it in roughly the right spot. I do believe its meant to be located around that big inland sea that you can see there. Assuming the scale is even close to accurate, that means Murraseth is about the size of the Mwangi Expanse. Its absolutely huge. Just my 2 cents... But yes, it would be lovely to just get a full world map.

[@jeremiehache8351]

I'm so glad to see this video ... Right now I'm designing a campaign based on pirates and this will help me a lot in my world building... I'm also excited for the shackles video

[@TheMythKeeper]

Awesome glad you liked it! Shackles is just around the corner now.

[@TheInsatiableDrBoom]

Haha you know I started his more so because Ive nearly watched every one of your more terrestrial videos. And hot damn this was amazing. Your visual work is particularly well organized and I appreciate the extra effort youve made in making it so polished.

[@TheMythKeeper]

Thank you sir

[@crazygeordie1383]

Perfect timing just set my group assail from Oppara heading to Corentyn then heading down to the shackles with a few encounters in between LOL love the channel very intuitive thanks

[@TheMythKeeper]

Awesome! Glad to hear it and thanks for watching

[@kintire]

Excellent video! There's just one nautical definition you missed. Before the invention of the rudder ships were steered by a long board on the right hand side of a ship with a handle at the top. If this hit a solid object it might break, which is why you drew up in a port with the other side against the quay. Thus, the left side of the ship is, as you mentioned, the port side and the right is the steerboard side... or starboard as we now say.

[@TheMythKeeper]

Someone else beat you to it in the comments I'm afraid, but thank you for the detail. ;-)

[@Jon_East]

The effort and planning that goes into these videos is really astounding. Who else shoots and edits an entire video about naval terminology in preparation for a video about a fictional pirate archipelago?

[@TheMythKeeper]

Uh... me... haha!

[@ossiliere]

Excellent video

[@TheMythKeeper]

Thank you for the kind words!

[@IbnShisha1]

Felucca? Making me nostalgic for my days in Cairo...

[@TheMythKeeper]

🤣

[@namelesssomebody2557]

Me disappointed the Irriseni ships & sailors do not sail as well as the Kamchatka.

[@TheMythKeeper]

Hehe! Thank you

[@OldGreyGryphon]

This is a very interesting subject. Great work as always.

[@TheMythKeeper]

Thank you!

[@ohthreefiftyone]

Im sure this typology is right for Pathfinder, but it’s worth remembering that in the real Age of Sail, a “man o’ war” was really any armed ship, especially one that sailed for a navy and “battleship” refers to a 20th century steam driven ship, not anything made of wood and sail driven. The English term for the classes of ship these apparently represent was “ship of the line” further distinguished by number of guns.

[@TheMythKeeper]

Yeah that's all correct. I think Man O'War being the biggest class of ship is more of a general game thing (probably originates here - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_O%27_War_(game) as its not a distinction unique to Pathfinder.

[@ohthreefiftyone]

@@TheMythKeeper Yeah I see Man o' War being a class of ship a lot in games.

[@jaimitodubs]

I love this world detail kinda stuff. ever thought of making one on foods, fasion or music?

[@TheMythKeeper]

These are all great ideas. I do generally touch a little on food & fashion in my regional deep dive videos, but I never thought about collating all that into a single video.

[@jaimitodubs]

those tend to be my favourite parts, since they make the world feel lived in. That being said, follow your heart and just keep going with whatever brings you joy when doing this.@@TheMythKeeper

[@wesleycastro6313]

Your charts and definitions help way more than just Pathfinder! Thank you for this awesome video. I've been looking for something like this for a while.

[@TheMythKeeper]

Glad to help!

[@wesleycastro6313]

I've been 3d printing ships for running a maritine capaign. So far I have 15 ships and counting. I want my players to experience many of the different naval factions as they traverse the Golarian Waterways. Im going to have them watch this before we start our campaign.

[@TheMythKeeper]

@@wesleycastro6313 - Awesome, yes! Please share with your group.

[@edwardchytil8868]

Unexpected but I liked it!

[@TheMythKeeper]

Thank you!

[@goransekulic3671]

Why are the sails of the Linnorm Kings x + Red? Shouldn't they have x + Gold(as in: Gold Linnorm)? Kinda like the united Linnorm Kings has Red + Gold. Shouldn't, for example, Broken Bay then have Purple / Indigo + Gold? Also, didn't you forget about Corvette when talking about ship classes? I mean, it's strange to hear Brigantine mentioned, but not the Corvette.

[@TheMythKeeper]

Perhaps I misspoke and maybe its hard to see because of the resolution on the video, but that is precisely how it is. The Linnorm is Golden, and then the flag changes color based on the kingdom. Red is only the color on the United flag.

[@goransekulic3671]

@@TheMythKeeper I was talking about sails. Look at 14:20, for example. Why do they all have red as a middle color of the sail? Shouldn't it be gold?

[@TheMythKeeper]

@@goransekulic3671 - Agh! Omg, you're totally right. I messed up all of the sails on the Linnorm Kingdom ships. 😭 I didn't even notice it when you clearly pointed it out for some reason.

[@goransekulic3671]

@@TheMythKeeper I was just following a pattern. The main flag color is the main sail color and gold should the central stripe on all of them. Right? If so, glad to help.

[@MinkersGM]

I'm so happy that you're always here when my 4 week Golarion addiction flares up

[@TheMythKeeper]

Any time ;-)