Blacktallow Lighthouse

WAREHOUSE FIND - EXTREMELY LIMITED QUANTITIES

The Blacktallow Lighthouse was designed by the amazing comic and game artist Max Dunbar and was sculpted by Jason Wiebe. The Blacktallow Lighthouse comes in several easy-to-assemble parts. Includes: Lighthouse (cupola, flame, tower, base, rocks), the Slaughterwalrus, and the lighthouse keeper Mirch.

On still moonless nights, idle sailors share tales around lanternlight to keep away the chill. One grim yarn concerns a tiny lighthouse appearing suddenly out of a dense cloud of rancid whale-oil smoke. The lighthouse and the island are all there is for a hundred leagues.

The claptrap structure perches atop a jumble of broken, slimy, black rock. The shallows are littered with flotsam and the occasional corpse floating facedown in the brine, victims of the caretaker claiming his due.

The caretaker is a skeletonized corpse named Mirch. He carries a ghostly brass lantern in one hand and a wickedly sharp boat anchor in the other. An all-too clever and alert seagull named Crabtrap sits upon his master’s shoulder, whispering in his ear.

In his tattered oilskin peacoat, Mirch strolls the scaffolds and tends the flame. It’s said Mirch guards a fabulous treasure hidden somewhere on the grounds, but none have ever set foot inside the lighthouse. Few have ever trodden on the rocks, as a flock of flesh-hungry seagulls can reduce a man to a skeleton long before they moor up. Even if one were to somehow bypass the flock, they’d have to contend with the herd of enormous slaughterwalruses and their 16-inch tusks. The beasts do not want their master disturbed.

Savvy crews leave offerings of burnables (wood, oil, or kerosene) in rowboats and then steer clear of these haunted waters. Those who attempt the crossing without doing so risk losing crew to the caretaker’s well-aimed hooks. Fuel is fuel, and the fire must burn whether it be from a whale’s belly or the rendered fat of a man.

One rumor has persisted for decades...
One of the Green Griffin wenches possesses a rare treasure: a magical ship in a bottle. Inside the bottle, the ship is caught in a violent squall of driving wind and drenching rain, and it looks as though the beleaguered vessel could sink at any moment. More mysterious still, occasionally an apparition of a woman walks the decks, ghostly lantern in hand. It’s believed the ship and the lighthouse caretaker are somehow linked, but there’s only one way to find out.