The Raiders of Dkar sail out of the storm, plunder the holds of ships and fishing villages up and down the coast, then disappear in a twinkling, leaving only fading wakes and dissipating squalls to mark their passage. Where they come from and where they disappear to are mysteries, a puzzle that few sages have been able to piece together. The location is so closely guarded that even captured raiders have never given up its secret; they prefer death to betraying their comrades' hidden stronghold.

At the center of the storm’s eye sits a barren, twisted mass of stone. Every other land mass within the eye is either temporary or magically stabilized. Only the Maze is permanent. It remains permanent because this mass of half-submerged stone is the focus of the entire storm that surrounds Red Shoals—it somehow generates and mystically maintains the chaos storm.