Indeed so. There's the small detail of the area being dominated by Zabdamar merfolk, though, as well as being more than a tad difficult to navigate even if left unmolested, so it's far from a free lunch. The Fog Pirates must have some smei-reliable means of doing so, it would seem; others, like the Tsankthi and the Ratuki probably lurk around the fringes, where they can discourage reprisals from the nations of the region, without risking the more dangerous parts of the Fog.
> IMO, the Mokato empire effectively cleared the eastern seas
> outside the Se of Fog from pirates. I suggest that the
> tradition for the pirates to go there en masse started at
> that time.
I suppose that would explain why the most well-known and apparently large-scale piratical up Oop t'North. Mind you, since Mokato's Elegant Decline, there's been plenty of mind for new-fangled cut-throat schemes to be devised, and old ones revived, if perhaps on a less megalomaniac basis.
Cheers,
Alex.
End of The Glorantha Digest V7 #322
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