Escape
The event where Sea Folk Escape from the Seanchan in Ebou Dar. Details of the Escape are few but we know it began with the captive Windfinders escaping from the Damane kennels in the Tarasin Palace.
The event where Sea Folk Escape from the Seanchan in Ebou Dar.
Details of the Escape are few but we know it began with the captive Windfinders escaping from the Damane kennels in the Tarasin Palace. Apparently, they first freed the other enslaved Sea Folk, then they fought together to retake their ships, capturing several Seanchan vessels in the process. Losses were high on both sides but a good number of Sea Folk ships and crews managed to reach Tear.
Bumboats also surrounded the massive Seanchan-built vessels, dozens upon dozens of them, that had been used in the Escape. That was what it was being called, now, the great Escape from Ebou Dar. Say the Escape, and no one asked what escape you meant. Great bluff-bowed things they were, twice the beam of a raker and more, some, suitable for battering through heavy seas perhaps, but strangely rigged and with odd ribbed sails too stiff for proper setting. Men and women were swarming over those masts and yards now, altering the rigging to something more usable. No one wanted the craft, but the shipyards would require years to replace all of the vessels lost at Ebou Dar. And the expense! Overly beamy or not, those ships would see many years of use.