The Dark Caribbean

Early explorers thought the Dark Caribbean was paradise:
they found nothing but deserted islands and bountiful treasures.
It wasn't until thousands had left their crowded, blighted homelands and
settled in among the islands that they encountered the Scourge...

It began on the solstice.
Haunting screams echoed over sandy beaches, and from the death black
waves crawled the undead.
Terror spread like wildfire.
At first they came in single numbers, but hordes gestated and soon
settlements were blotted out by a torrent of lifeless, nameless creatures.
Possessed flesh of dead sailors, ghosts of displaced inhabitants,
skeletal constructs shrouded in seaweed and muck, and
horrible monsters born from the unknowable dark places in the world:
They emerged from the sea and consumed all.
The meek had nowhere to flee but to their graves, only to rise again at dusk.
Survivors fortified cities and bolstered strongholds.
Soon after, the effects of ASH were discovered. A new status quo was born.