You have been sailing for many days now. You have sailed past Terramort and you've just left Green Isle. The captain of your ship says you are bound for Sampetra to visit the otters and creatures that live in peace there. Suddenly a storm springs up, and the captian is forced to turn and sail south. "Land ho!" the lookout shouts. You stop bailing and look to where the lookout is pointing. You see it, an island, low on the horizon. It had stood there from the mists of time, an island green and growing. It was an island that looked like an emerald from far away, but once you got closer, you could feel the evil tainting the beautiful landscape. And it was beautiful. From the mountain that stood in the center, to the cove of wrecked ships to the north, evil seeped out of that island.

Emerald Isle started out as any other island, I guess, but it was soon discovered by the corsairs and searats and made into a haven of evil. Vermin thrived in the lush countryside, and soon a creature with a dominate personality sprung forward. Deathpaw the searat was larger than most searats, and he claimed to be a Greatrat. He called himself Chief Ruler and Commander of Emerald Isle, and commanded the fleet of ships on the island.

On the crew with you are many shrews and otters and fighting creatures, led by a badger named Rockpaw the Wanderer. You were going with them to fight against the vermin trying to re-take Sampetra. But when the storm drove you to the green island, the captain called Rockpaw up from where he had been rowing. The captain told Rockpaw of the danger he felt was on the isle, and Rockpaw called the crew onto the deck to talk to them. He said, "Friends, I do not know what lies before us on that island, but I fear that it is not peace and tranquility. I fear that we will have to fight the creatures on this island..." You zoned out what he was saying, already knowing the gist of it.

(Great battle happens and after the Great Battle the island has been recaptured by Rockpaw and the crew of the ship and Rockpaw decides to stay there for a while and build a fortress called Rockpaw's Refuge.)