Current Rumors

The streets of Ebbing are rarely quiet and as always if there's no information available, rumors run rampant.

  • The families don't own Ebbing officially because if they did they might have to start paying for things.
  • Every major warehouse in the harbor secretly belongs to one family or another. The names over the doors are just decoration.
  • The families choose who gets rich in Ebbing. Everyone else just borrows prosperity from them.
  • There's no government because the families realized years ago it's cheaper to let everyone think there isn't one.
  • Whenever a captain vanishes at sea after refusing a Port House deal, people suddenly become very philosophical about storms.
  • The Bennett family knows exactly how much money changes hands in Ebbing every single day.
  • The Harrows have enough hidden gold buried on the island to hire their own navy if they wanted one.
  • The families don't actually compete with each other nearly as much as they pretend to.
  • If the Port House ever closes its doors for a full day, leave town immediately.
  • The families keep records going back to the founding of Ebbing - debts, favors, scandals, murders, everything.
  • Nobody becomes truly wealthy in Ebbing without at least one family deciding to allow it.
  • The families settled disputes with knives for years before they learned paperwork was quieter and usually deadlier.
  • One of the founding families secretly controls the Drowned Men. Nobody agrees which one.
  • The Port House has tunnels beneath it leading to hidden docks used for smuggling and private meetings.
  • The families know something about Frosthowl they've never told anyone.