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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tun Kai Poh" data-source="post: 8477505" data-attributes="member: 6761960">There should also be some discussion of sea raiders, which occupy a similar niche in maritime settings. There are recent and upcoming games that put sea raiders in protagonist roles, whether they are Norse homesteaders gone a-viking in <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shem/the-north-sea-epilogues-rpg-raiders-play-mat" target="_blank">The North Sea Epilogues</a> or the Mangangayaw inspired by Visayan raiders in <a href="https://makapatag.itch.io/gubat-banwa" target="_blank">Gubat Banwa (Warring Nations)</a> and <a href="https://hitpointpress.com/the-islands-of-sina-una/" target="_blank">The Islands of Sina Una</a> for 5e.The Visayan raiders are quite interesting.According to thirteenth-century Chinese records, certain raiders referred to as Pi-sho-ye made organized attacks on villages along the Fukien coast during the twelvth century."They were fond of iron vessels.… one could get rid of them by closing the entrance door, from which they would only wrench the iron knocker and go away…""When attacking an enemy, they are armed with javelins to which are attached ropes of over a hundred feet in length, in order to recover them after throwing; for they put such value on the iron of which these weapons are made, that they cannot bear to lose them."Although Chau Ju-Kua believed the raiders came from the Penghu Islands in the Taiwan Strait, other historians such as Lacouperie and Laufer have identified the Visayans as the most likely origin of the barbarians whom the Chinese called the Pi-Sho-ye.Visayans of the time would have used barangay warships, which may have been equipped with double outriggers, to ride a northern current (the western branch of the Japanese Kuroshio) from the Philippines in the early part of the year, taking them to the Fukien coast. Then they would have had to take a southward current just east of the main Kuroshio, down from Formosa to Catanduanes Island (possibly named after the Visayan term katadungan, which means a reference point for a straightcourse). Catanduanes could have been a way station for Visayan raiders on the way home. Quite an impressive journey.[ATTACH=full]147866[/ATTACH](artwork from the Mangangayaw discipline in Gubat Banwa)</blockquote>

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