Akrathesh is an ancient goddess to whom the life on the world is often attributed. She is goddess of all bodies of water and of weather but most of her worshipers are sailors who worship her as goddess of the sea and pray for fair winds at their backs and storms on pirates and those who wrong them. The center of her worship is the island of Nin, the largest volcanic island in a vast region of ocean dotted by both volcanic islands and deepsea atolls. This island, and many of the neighboring islands, is home to the porceakrans, Akrathesh's chosen race who she sees as her own children as they see her as their mother.