• Shady Deeps

A settlement located in the wall of an abyssal trench. The Shady Deeps were founded by ponies from the Edge to exploit the Trench Whales during a chaotic period around the time the Ponyist regime came to power in Trenchtown. (Relations between all three settlements are now fully normalized, and Trenchtown’s Aeropony service visits both the Edge and the Shady Deeps.)

Trench Whales are found and herded by pegasi and taken from fixed harpoon emplacements in the Shady Deeps. This strategy has proven less effective than pursuing them in airships, although the Shady Deeps get the first shot at most of the creatures, before they emerge from the abyss and are seen by Trenchtown’s airships. (The Airships navigate the Abyss only with some difficulty, and hunting Trench Whales by airship in the abyss would not be safe.)

The Shady Deeps is a small community without a formal government, but most of the residents have strong connections to Edge or the Penna Plain. The de facto leader of the community is the boss whaler, Two Flue, the general manager of the Shady Deeps Oil Company.

By the time of PRPG3, Shady Deeps was flooded by the return of the oceans and is now abandoned far below sea level. Its former population mostly migrated to Edge and its surrounding area, many taking up farming in the now richly fertile Western plains.

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