Season 1 Episodes : The Pirates of Dark Water (1991)

The Pirates of Dark Water (1991)
1. The Quest

25 Feb '91

Ren, a young lighthouse keeper, spies an old man foundering upon the rocks during a horrible storm and rescues him. The old man identifies himself as Primus, the former ruler of Octopon, and reveals that Ren is his son, a prince and heir to the throne. With his final breath the king says he's escaped the pirate lord Bloth and tells Ren to seek someone called Alomar. Ren's keeper, Jenna, presents him with his father's broken sword and tells him Alomar is in the Abbey of Galdobar. Before he ca

The Pirates of Dark Water (1991)
2. Dishonor

26 Feb '91

Aboard the Wraith, Ren awakes to the sight of Bloth's scout ships outside a porthole. Ioz and Tula are already topside, but can't stop arguing over the best way to elude Konk and his men. The scouts force the Wraith into a trap, then the Maelstrom makes its appearance. To avoid Bloth, Ren steers the ship into a cave, where the crew is captured by a race of pale warriors called the Atani. They are brought before King Obric, who doesn't believe their story until Ren shows him the First Treasur

The Pirates of Dark Water (1991)
3. Break Up

27 Feb '91

Konk is tearing his ship apart and throwing the wreckage to slow down Ren and his crew, but he can't shake them. Finally he decides to lose them on the island of Pandawa. Niddler begs Ren not to go there, revealing that Pandawa is his home, where he was sold to Bloth as a slave. Meanwhile Tula has been studying a manifest from the Maelstrom (the scroll she kept from the Atani library) and finds the name ""Teron"" on it. In the Pandawa marketplace the slavers fend off a rebel attack by unveil

The Pirates of Dark Water (1991)
4. Betrayal

28 Feb '91

Ren and Niddler are captured in the bowels of the Maelstrom and brought before Bloth. However, he and Mantus are distracted with Dagron rider training and don't recognize them covered in borca paste from the crash. After ordering Teron, a captive ecomancer, to bring him clear skies for sailing, Bloth throws Ren and Niddler into the ship's dungeon. There Ren sees an old woman in a fight with another prisoner and tries to help her. The woman, Avagon, recognizes Ren's broken sword and, after te

The Pirates of Dark Water (1991)
5. Victory

01 Mar '91

From his cell, Teron tries to warn Bloth of his visions of the approaching Dark Water, but he is only interested in getting the Compass from Tula. Bloth throws Konk into the pit where Ren and Niddler are hiding. When the Constrictus attacks, Konk helps them fight it off and trap it, but Ren is stung in the process and quickly weakens from the poison. Konk escapes (to a crew angry over losing their bets to Mantus), and Niddler takes Ren back to Avagon for healing. Bloth orders Teron to calm t

The Pirates of Dark Water (1991)
6. Andorus

12 Oct '91

The crew stops to clean and repair their ship, and gather bulbs for fresh spices. Tula is shocked when her hand begins tingling with magical energy, and a plant she is tending suddenly bursts into bloom. She begins acting differently, trading in her warrior attire for a more revealing outfit. Teron tells her she has the gift of an ecomancer. Though reluctant at first, when Bloth's pirates attack, Tula uses her newfound powers to fend off the Dagrons, and rides one to rescue Teron from Konk.

The Pirates of Dark Water (1991)
7. A Drop of Darkness

26 Oct '91

Ren recovers the Fourth Treasure from the ocean floor. As Tula senses the approach of Dark Water, a shadow passes over the Wraith, someone in a balloon attempting to capture some of the evil liquid. Ren and Niddler work to save the pilot, an alchemist named Cray, who at first glance mistakes Ren for his father Primus. Bloth shows up, but Cray is able to help them evade him, using a potion to envelop the Maelstrom in a massive mist cloud. Back at her citadel, Cray offers the crew her hospital

The Pirates of Dark Water (1991)
8. The Beast and the Bell

02 Nov '91

Docking at a marketplace for supplies, Ren and Niddler learn that not everyone believes in the quest when Ren is mocked by a pair of merchants. Aboard the Wraith, Tula sees a vision of a beast's face after sensing something strange in the air. The Compass acts up, drawing Ren to the sea where Primus arises and tells him to abandon his search for the Thirteen Treasures. Instead Ren is to seek the Bell of the First Sound, located on the island of Banjamaar, which will destroy the Dark Water wit

The Pirates of Dark Water (1991)
9. Panacea

09 Nov '91

The Wraith sails through rapids in a narrow strait, en route to Miragon and the next Treasure. The Maelstrom is right behind as the heroes steer into a blast tunnel, too small for Bloth to follow. He moves the Maelstrom to cut off the wind, forcing Ren and crew to abandon their vessel to escape. Bloth searches the Wraith, finding no Treasures, and commandeers the ship to follow them to Miragon. Ren and crew locate the Fifth Treasure atop a spire on the outskirts, but a giant burrowing worm c

The Pirates of Dark Water (1991)
10. King Niddler

16 Nov '91

As the crew tracks the Sixth Treasure through some rough seas, Niddler is sick of being ordered around. Ren tries to lose a pursuing Konk in some Stekka fog which threatens to break apart the Wraith. The Treasure is located atop a spire on an island inside the fog, so the crew takes the sail-glider in, but it gets broken on landing. Niddler breaks off to gorge himself at a grove of minga trees, where he encounters a group of flightless monkey-birds with tiny wings. The Mobo, as they call the

The Pirates of Dark Water (1991)
11. The Collection

23 Nov '91

At his Janda Town game house, Zoolie warns Ren against taking the Wraith through the Straits of Hedron with stories of ships disappearing. Ioz spots Scorian, a rival pirate who stole his treasure map once and now has the treasure. Ren breaks up a fight before it happens, but Garen, a sinister wizard, overhears the argument. Ioz bribes Niddler with a promise of Janda fruit to distract the guards on Scorian's ship so he can steal his treasure back. Scorian spots him and orders his crew to leav

The Pirates of Dark Water (1991)
12. The Little Leviathan

30 Nov '91

The Wraith is about to be overtaken by the Maelstrom, but interference by a pod of Leviathans allows them to escape. Ren and crew hide out in a cove, where they find a baby Leviathan caught in a patch of Dark Water and save it. Ioz, ever the cutthroat, wants to sell its skin for gold. Ren befriends Baby, as he names it, and wants to help it find its family. Baby quickly turns out to be nothing but trouble, first eating all of Niddler's minga melons, then the vines the crew has gathered to r

The Pirates of Dark Water (1991)
13. The Darkdweller

07 Dec '91

The crew celebrates successfully gathering the seven Treasures that Primus hid, unaware that Bloth's ship is just around the reef. Ren has begun to sense that the Treasures' magic is a part of him. As the ship approaches, Konk sees a face in a nearby patch of Dark Water, the Darkdweller. Cornered by the Maelstrom, the heroes take to the hang glider to escape. A Dagron-borne Konk knocks Tula loose and she falls into the Dark Water and is consumed. (Niddler is too stuffed from the party to cat

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