About Curious Tides

For Those Who Love the Sea and Its Mysteries. Mare et Mysteria

Curious Tides is built around the mystery and majesty of the sea. We are inspired by the atmosphere and energy of the Outer Banks of North Carolina, where the tide carries the feeling that there is something magical shimmering just below the surface… waiting to be discovered by those who are willing to see.

It is a world of adventure and wonder, filled with story-rich objects, engaging digital experiences, illustrated stories, apparel, and collectible artifacts. Among these are Echoes of Thalassaria and The Extraordinary Exploits of Elliot and Ellouise Davenport.

Echoes of Thalassaria

Echoes of Thalassaria is a collection of luminous, story-rich artifacts inspired by the ruins of an ancient civilization beneath the sea.

Each Echo is a fragment recovered from a forgotten world: part artifact, part relic, part invitation. The pieces connect to the larger mythology of Thalassaria, a lost oceanic culture shaped by moon, tide, memory, and mystery.

Echoes include Augmented Reality elements that reveal hidden scenes, fragments of story, or glimpses into the world that created them.

The Extraordinary Exploits of Elliot and Ellouise Davenport

The Extraordinary Exploits of Elliot and Ellouise Davenport follows a pair of curious young adventurers drawn into a world of hidden maps, vanished parents, coastal legends, and impossible discoveries.

Their first adventure, Moonrise, begins with mystery, inheritance, and the pull of the tide. Elliot and Ellouise — Lee and Lou to each other — must follow clues left behind by their parents and uncover truths that reach far beyond the shore.

The series is being developed as a story world for illustrated books, interactive experiences, and future Augmented Reality storytelling.

Artificial Intelligence Use Statement

Curious Tides uses AI tools as part of its development process.

These tools may assist with ideation, research, marketing materials, and promotional concepts. AI-generated or AI-assisted content may be used in Curious Tides marketing materials when appropriate, including concept art, mood imagery, mockups, temporary promotional pieces, and other materials used to communicate the vision of a project.

When marketing materials contain AI-generated or substantially AI-assisted content, Curious Tides will clearly label them as such.

Curious Tides does not treat AI as a replacement for craft. All final creative direction, editing, product decisions, design judgment, authorship, and public release choices remain human-led.

The actual products our customers see with their eyes, hold in their hands, and feel with their hearts — including story content, artwork, physical artifacts, Extended Reality experiences, and canonical worldbuilding elements — are and always will be human-authored, human-designed, and human-created.

AI is used here as an assistant and instrument: a sketchbook, sounding board, pattern finder, and development aid — not as a substitute for authorship, responsibility, transparency, or the human creative act.

This Artificial Intelligence Use Statement was developed and refined with the assistance of AI.