Oferon Shipping Company

Oferon Shipping Company was a company that provided trans-continental shipping services to traders, guilds, nations and more. Based in Tyria, the company operated mainly in the Gulf of Tyria, the Veiled Sea and the Great Sea, transporting merchandise along trade routes between the Heartlands, The North and The West. It was named after its founder and manager, the elven entrepreneur Gildor Oferon. The company collapsed in 2501 ER after 10 years of continuous sabotage.
At the height of its success before 2491 ER, Oferon Shipping Company was one of the several largest and wealthiest shipping companies active on the Great Sea. Its impact on the trade of all coastal nations of the Heartlands was well known, and the joint owners and funders of the company enjoyed great profits indeed. GIldor was famous for having created the enterprise quite literally out of nothing.

2377 ER - 2500 ER

Type

Corporation, Commerce

Decline

The company's downfall began in 2490 ER when they suffered the first instance of sabotage in a chain of disasters and accidents that would continue for the next decade. Each disruption would be more impactful than the last, and each would remain entirely mysterious in origin: no perpetrators were ever caught -- alive, at least. During the first year, the owners of the company shrugged off the strange events as a streak of bad luck, but little did they know that the company had become the target of a vengeful criminal mastermind. Navarra Stayanoga, a half-elf bastard daughter of Gildor had come to hate her father -- perhaps rightfully so, for he had murdered her half-brother -- and had decided to not only kill the man but also to destroy his greatest work.
And destroy it she did. With contacts across Tyria and in nearly every port on the shores of the central seas, Navarra was able to use her seemingly endless amounts of ill-gotten funds to gain undermine the company where ever it was least expected and where ever it would hurt the most. Bribes were given, thugs were hired, families were threatened; shipments were stolen, warehouses were burned, and ships were sunk; people from key positions were made to dissappear, friends were made to turn on one another, marriages were destroyed, and assassination contracts were signed in blood. To Navarra, no method was too dark and no price too steep to pay for the sake of her revenge. And over the ten years it took to bankrupt them, the company owners never even learned her identity.
The company collapsed in 2500 ER and Navarra focused her efforts on hounding Gildor personally. He fled from Tyria to Caraegwyn where Navarra finally tracked him down. Gildor did not escape with his life.