Hudson's Travels

A travelogue describing Johnathan Hudson's voyage to the mysterious continent of Rana and back. Hudson's voyage started with half a dozen vessels and over a hundred sialors, but only four sailors returned to Gameria. Interviews with the surviving crew members told stories of gargantuan monsters and magnificent cities isolated from the outside world, a realm unsafe for trade and commerce from Pescaliat. Johnathan Hudson died of depression a couple years after the record's publication, and despite rumors of his authorship of the book modern scholars attribute Hudson's Travels to an unnamed female scribe at the National Archives.

Historical Details

Background

Johnathan Hudson voyaged out into the furthest depths of the Largas Ocean during the reign of Queen Penumbra I (186 - 221) of Gameth, a time of expansion and exploration by the Gamerian government. For centuries rumors had circulated of a mysterious landmass to the far east of Liat, but no ships had managed to return to the far reaches with concrete information. 
Johnathan Hudson's expedition was supposed to lay to rest all the theories and speculation, but instead his voyage invited more questions than answers. Creatures of immense size and power were described, but how did such gargantuan monstrosities survive without falling to the ground from their unfathomable size? Hudson and his crew were laughed away by most of Gamerian high society, but a scribe at the National Archives believed Hudson's testimony enough to transcribe interviews with all of the survivors. Without this scribe's thankless work, the modern world would have little to no knowledge of the realms beyond Pescaliat.

Public Reaction

Hudson's Travels weren't discovered until sometime during the reign of Queen Meridian II (589 - 615), when a drunken directive by Meridian called for the collection of all records in the National Archives related to naval voyages. Hudson's ominous writing enraptured Gamerian society, inspiring dozens of plays and tall tales about the monsters haunting the furthest reaches of the world's oceans. Most assumed that Johnathan Hudson was the author of the travelogue, but recent scholarship confirmed the author's identity as an unnamed female scribe working as a scribe in the Archives' service.

Read the Document

Hudson's Travels

Excerpt from pg. 149:
Month 9, Week 2, Year 194
Weather: Partly Cloudy, Winds SE
Fleet made its way through patch of fog. Creature spotted by Aurora V three clicks NE, roughly 75' in height and 40' in length. Creature rose from water and wrapped self around Aurora V with multiple appendages, submerging Aurora V in less than five minutes. Remaining vessels made wide berth of creature's spot of origin, collected descriptions of creature from surviving crew members.
...
Month 11, Week 4, Year 194
Weather: Mostly Sunny, Winds SW
Aurora III spotted landfall for first time in months, large chain of islands with large metropolis in center. Creature spotted near metropolis, quadruped with testudines features standing over 200' tall. Artillery connected to creature's upper abdomen, fired at Aurora IV and dealt significant casualties to crew. 
In metropolis met with inhabitants, humanoids with blue complexion. Inhabitants referred to selves as ghenawzee, showed aptitude for water and aquatic capabilities. Inhabitants apologized for creature's artillery, provided crew with accommodations for several weeks.

Close

Type

Manuscript, Historical

Medium

Paper

Authoring Date

203, 4th Cycle