It’s that last one that’s prompted a recent lore-filled post that sets up the backstory for the location, with an adventurer receiving a tale from an innkeep about the Corrupted Empress that resides in Ebonscale Reach. The story talks about how the empress, Zhou Taiying, was driven from China by her brother on her coronation, and now seeks to raise a dangerous armada to enact revenge and lay claim to the world itself after being made one of the Corrupted.

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