The Great Black Vessel

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The Great Black Vessel is the Dark Emperor Retan's personal transport. It is actually a failed early airship prototype. However, the Dark Emperor enchanted it with some form of black magic making it functional, though not to the degree of it's original design. It cannot fly, but hovers several feet above water, entirely surrounded by a thick mist.

The black ship is massive, sporting a huge deck and many lower cabins. Grotesque gargoyle and dragon statues line the edges of the structure, alternating between torches and cannons that protrude from the sides. It is often compared to a ghost ship given the lighting effects of the torches with the ever present soupy mist that surrounds the vessel. As its massive size might suggest, the ship is very slow moving. It often serves as a base of operations from which the Dark Emperor conducts his armies when he wishes to be on-location. There is also a very large hatch on the front which folds down to a ramp, making landing a huge amount of soldiers and/or large land weapons another use.

Retan has the ability to summon and unsummon the vessel at will, making it disappear entirely with a wave of the hand. However, he can only resummon it in the position he last unsummoned it.