Glass Sea
The sea off the northern coast of Hale, this vast body of water is known for its cold and stormy waters, as well as ice floes that block off the wider ocean and complicate navigation in the winter months. The most notable feature, known as the Vastchasm, is a fissure in the Glass Sea, created during the fall of Oldfaire, that separates Hale from Otherwhere across the water. Water now pours over all sides in a perpetual, deadly cascade. The terrifying currents around the chasm destroy ships, and it takes a particularly skilled captain to navigate a vessel around the fissure's edge.
Points of Interest
Vastchasm Lighthouse: At the bottom of the Vastchasm, where the ocean floor is covered in shipwrecks from all centuries, a tall lighthouse stands, still illuminated. Those who are desperate to cling to mundane logic will attribute its illumination to the light of the moon reflecting off the waterfalls surrounding it, but Candela Obscura keeps this tower perpetually staffed. Like all lighthouses in the region, there is a considerable amount of lore linking htis to supernatural happenings, and sailors regularly return from teh Glass Sea with haunted tales.
Serenity: A small island off the coast of the Fairelands. The land is barely big enough to support the people or humble infrastructure of the one small village that exists there. As wealth increases in Newfaire and people have started to travel post-war, the people of Serenity are struggling to support the resources consumed by frivolous tourists looking to relax on the grassy coast.
Obsidian Caves: Underwater caves of black obsidian that were onces used by alchemists in Oldfaire to test experiments. Within the caves, records are carved in stone that describe these magickal practitioners coming to the caverns in secret and leaving their discoveries unguarded, with only the terrifying mythology of the black stone walls to keep people away. These caverns were flooded when the ocean rushed in during the fall of Oldfaire, but industrious bell divers can still access them.
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