The Curse of the Serpent’s Doubloons
Beneath a moonless tide, the Serpent’s Fang, a pirate galleon, sank in 1717, its hold brimming with doubloons stamped with a coiled viper. Whispers claim the gold was cursed by a betrayed sorceress, her blood sealed in each coin’s minting. Captain Elias Crowe, driven by greed, ignored her dying wail: “Whoso claims these coins shall drown in shadow.”
Salvagers who found the wreck met grim fates. In 1803, a fisherman hauled a doubloon from the abyss; that night, his village sank in a freak squall. In 1927, a diver clutched a coin, only to vanish as his lantern dimmed, his screams echoing underwater. The doubloons, glinting with unnatural sheen, reappear in coastal markets, luring the unwary. Each owner feels a chill, hears hisses in the dark, and sees serpentine shadows coiling in mirrors.
Legends say the curse lifts only when the coins are returned to the Serpent’s Fang’s wreck, guarded by spectral eels in a trench no light pierces. Yet none dare try, for lighthouses near the site flicker without cause, their keepers muttering of voices from the deep. Will you seek these doubloons, their gold promising wealth but delivering doom? Or will you heed the sea’s warning, where every wave hums a requiem for the damned?
Join us in Sunken, where tales like these weave the gothic sublime, and every relic hides a shadow.
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By: Your ghostly guide, The Keeper of Gothic Dust Diaries with whispers from Grok of xAI
Fictional Nature: The story of the Serpent’s Fang, its cursed doubloons, Captain Elias Crowe, and the sorceress’s curse is completely made up. It draws on common gothic and pirate lore tropes (e.g., cursed treasure, ghost ships) but isn’t based on any historical or documented events, artifacts, or legends.