The Black Hand

The Black Hand is a former merchant vessel captained by Syro, the Lord-Captain of the Raiders of the Silver Serpent. The ship was originally built in Braavos, but was modified to also function as a warship by the shipwrights of Torturer's Deep.

About
Built from black ebony wood, the Black Hand is nothing short of extraordinary. The large ship boasts three large masts with black sails. Cresting its middle mast is the Black Hand's signature flag, a horned skull and crossbones with tendrils coming out of the mouth.

The ship was was ordered to be constructed in the year 340AC in Braavos as a merchant ship by a rich Braavosi merchant dealing in silk and spices. It fulfilled that purpose under the name Nightfall for twenty years before it was bought by the pirate captain Alequo Goldhalt. The pirate and his crew used the ship under the name the Red Sabre.

It wasn't until the year 396AC that a new captain would come to possess the ship when the pirate Syro inherited the title from Alequo by voting after the man mysteriously vanished one night. When Syro and the crew docked in Braavos the ships sails were swapped for black ones and the ship was renamed to the Black Hand.

In 405AC Syro ordered the shipwrights of Torturer's Deep to modify the ship, adding two masts and another deck.