![]() ![]() ![]() They had relegated their malice and viciousness to serve as little more than fearsome stories for children. On the eastern shores of the North, the smallfolk and lords alike had forgotten the fearsome reaving fleets of the Skagosi. They had no warships, no great raiding crafts, when their power was broken by the Starks centuries past, they had destroyed all their great ships and sworn never to rebuild them. Short, jagged crafts that knew no sails and were manoeuvred by oars alone, they would sail upriver until they came upon a small undefended village in the dead of night, and steal all they could fit on their paddle-boats. To the people of the North’s eastern shores, the raider ships they knew to expect most often were that of the Skagosi. Rarest of all, squat and hairy Ibbenese men and their hulking ships were known to come and reave. Occasionally ironborn ships, having sailed around the arm of Dorne, would perform some half-hearted raids on their way from Braavos, or having crossed the Neck. Some Lysene pirates and slavers seeking easy pickings among the isolated northern villages at times. On the eastern shores of the North, the smallfolk and lords alike had little to fear from raiders.
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