The Azure Isles is the name of an equatorial island grouping on the planet of New Cambria. It is the most important and densest region within a greater, more widely distributed set of islands which stretch away to the north and south and are collectively known as the Tropic Archipelago. It is a complex area, both geographically and politically. Tradition says that there are thirty seven islands in the group, but the number is certainly higher if you were to count all the isolated outcrops that lie not far from the shores of the better known locations and this number is a rather arbitrary figure since no one agrees on the specifics of the thirty seven qualifying islands. Politically it has usually been divided between many competing organisations, consisting of oligarchies, company franchises, kingdoms, criminal enterprises, religious sects and pirate societies to name but a few. The Knights of the Gold Order, are usually the most powerful of these forces, and notionally rule from the town of St. Peters on Azure Isle itself. Notoriously, however, the islands are no stranger to violence between the many parties and their shifting alliances as they fight for control of the natural resources under the sea bed, access to the coral reefs with their valuable shells and the blaze oil harvest which is extracted from the nuts of regulin trees. Sometimes, conflict in the Azure Isles has even spilled over to influence the politics of the whole planet, most famously when the Army of the Friends of New Cambria sailed north from the isles to overthrow the Old Assembly at Gwynedd. In this image, a small plantation of regulin trees, marked with the claim of the Moon Islands, receives a visit from two scouts in the service of the Blood Gang as they assess the prospects for a later raid.