Two months out of the Pillars of the Titans the Vargas ran afoul of a vicious storm that rent her from stem to stern, she went quickly beneath the swollen waves. Crew and passengers alike scam bled for life boats with only what they had on them. Most did not make it. Then adrift for several days, El'deago and his two female companions were picked up by a large vessel. "You be aboard the Black Heart, and I be her skipper. My friends call me Annabel, others call me Black Hearted Ann, my crew call me Black Hearted Ann. The here be a pirate vessel she be, and we are proud of her we are. So you are the "The Dragon of Culithorne," Duke of Forestall, and Master of Forestall Keep. Um I thought yee would be bigger! No don't talk, it be no mischance that we happened upon thee. A High Priestess of Fate, found is in a Tavern on Yale's Island, told us ye be late. Was afraid ta storm might have done evil upon yer ship. She paid us a Kings Ransom to come look for ye, and even more if we brought you to their accursed island. Ye were not even hard to find, she gave us a course which strangely enough brought us right to ye. Now stay out'ta the way of me and ta crew, and we will deliver ye as promised." (Chronicles of the Fallen Knight)