Pathfinder Regional Deepdive: The Shackles

Welcome back to our Deep Dive series! We're finally visiting one of my personal favorite corners of the Pathfinder world - the islands of the Shackles. This is Pathfinder's equivalent of the Caribbean during the Golden Age of Piracy and just like its real-world analog this large archipeligo features numerous points of interest and competing pirate lords. As a result this is an exceedingly long video, probably the longest one I will ever produce, but hopefully well worth it.

I hope you all enjoy.

▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬

0:00 - The History of the Shackles
10:01 - The Free Captains Council
32:27 - Gazeteer Intro / Jeopardy Bay & Port Peril
47:09 - Shen-chu Bay
49:22 - Motaku Island
56:47 - Besmara's Throne
1:00:26 - Pangalley Atoll
1:02:29 - Shark Island
1:09:25 - Nalt's Island
1:11:51 - Kepre Dua
1:16:55 - Bag Island
1:20:40 - Dahak's Teeth
1:30:09 - North Fever Coast
1:35:39 - Benbog Islands
1:36:47 - Yoha's Graveyard and Ungoro Tedar
1:38:45 - Devil's Arches
1:45:05 - Whirlis Isle
1:47:51 - Widowmaker Isle
1:50:42 - Tempest Cay
1:55:04 - Abendego Reach
1:57:33 - Hesmene's Grotto
1:58:58 - Island of Empty Eyes
2:00:04 - Lost Reefs
2:02:23 - Rampore Isles
2:04:42 - The Smoker
2:08:21 - Gleaming Isles
2:11:15 - Glengarnie Chain
2:14:04 - Cannibal Isles
2:17:22 - Raptor Island
2:18:36 - Kelizar's Atoll
2:21:21 - Shogunate of Ushinawa
2:23:30 - Raugsmauda's Reach
2:27:35 - Taldas Isles
2:29:21 - Upper Terwa Archipeligo
2:31:40 - Mgange Cove
2:34:16 - Firegrass Island
2:35:59 - Slithering Coast
2:36:49 - Bonewrack Isle

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CREDITS

Content for this video came from "Pathfinder Campaign Setting: The Isles of the Shackles" by Mike Shel

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[joshuakirkham]

The Shakles is now no longer just a spot on the map, MythKeeper has brought it to life.

[SeanSpeer]

It was a great campaign. Thanks for running it for us!

[russvickery]

Almost three hours? Surely Desna has blessed me this day.

[김태호-fo]

Magnificent. This, and the previous video about ships, set me straight on path for my next adventure as a GM, which is a homebrew based on Vidrian! Didn't think about incorporating the pre-pirate lore, but now I've got some ideas about pre-Viridian island ruins of Raugsmuada!

[Ofley_Adventures]

Hells yes! I am also super excited to hear more about this region. The variety and depth in your videos never disappoints. Have a dazzling day everyone! Thanks for the vid.

[CooperativeWaffles]

Hussah!
Every hump-day deserves a @MythKeeper video!!!
... and this is is about Pirates, mat'ez!

[pwillet]

It is rreally cool how the shackles have small microcosms of all kinds of societies across golarion.

[JamesAdams-ndtd]

This was pretty cool. While Magnimar remains my favorite region in Golarion and thus Riddleport my favorite pirate den, the Shackles is pretty cool with all these different factions and personalities jockeying for power or freedom. And the Mystical Redoubt just looks cool; this very organic, almost Sci-Fi looking structure. There’s always loads of possibilities at a magical library/school.

Your discussion of your group’s campaign reminded me of the 2 Pathfinder video games, in how the players can reshape their hero’s community. I never realized how much Pathfinder encouraged worldbuilding (that is, letting the players reshape the world). It’s pretty cool, and something that sets it apart from modern DND (though as Mr.Welch loves to point out, it was a core component of the Mystara setting back in the TSR days).

[AdriusFrostglare]

My Shackles pirate adventure featured Captain Sakhbet of the Endless Hunger, an alchemist from Osirion who converted to worshipping Urgathoa after losing faith in Pharasma. Post-campaign, he turned down becoming Hurricane King, preferring to explore more of the mysteries of the cyclops empire, build his port of Ankhor using Geb as a model, and using his freedom and resources from plundering to expand his knowledge of alchemy free of government oversight, hoping to unlock perfect undeath that has all the benefits with none of the drawbacks of either being alive or undead.

[HeathenHammer]

I'm super stoked you put all this work into the Shackles deepdive Myth! The Hideous Laughter podcast just started a campaign in the Shackles, so I am grateful to get a better idea of what the region has been up to before the adventure path they are running.

[johannesblood]

I love all these videos but this one really struck me at how syntactically well written your scripts are. I can sense the effort put in to keep the verbiage flowing and interesting to the ear and not simply explained flatly to the audience. Bravo

[MrTotalAhole]

I dont know if we (the fans) deserve two hours and forty minutes.
But Im sure as heck not going to say 'no'.

This video length just reaffirms Myth is a GM/DM in real life- eight to ten hours of work, for 2:45 of our enjoyment.
Thanks Myth!

[phatasticpat]

Been anticipating this to drop for awhile now

[unconquistador]

Hey, thank you for doing these. i was really depressed the other day and watching your deep dive made me feel better and I’ve been doing better since then. Thank you for that spark!

[loganmcgee]

MythKeeper can do voices, too?! This guy's a triple threat

[alexramey]

Perfect timing! I'll definitely need to set some time aside to watch this vid lol, but I just made a pirate character from the Shackles so this will be great to watch! She's a Lizardfolk kineticist who can control fire and earth, which as a sea fairing brigand does makes her a potential hazard to have on a ship lol. I belovingly refer to her as the Volcanodile. She loves to yell "CROCO-TOA!" as she hurls fire and stone at her foes.

[rayreel]

One of my top favorite inner sea regions. My current campaign in Qadira just barely won out when I was figuring out wether I wanted to DM there or the Shackles.

[Arborerivus]

Arrrrgh, I should have watched this much earlier, great work!

[joshuaturnquist]

I hope a 2E adventure revisits the Shackles one day. Curtain Call has you visit a "dungeon" there (with some glorious singing seagull men fey), but a proper pirate adventure would be nice. At least theres a nice 2e conversion of Skull&Shackles.

[AdamTheCoop]

This is really great, your VA (is it you?) is great, your visual presentation was also on spot... I am slowly learning how much work goes into even seemingly simple visual effects as I try to make my own content so I can see how much work has gone into this.