Sea of Ruin
The joint eastern coasts of Persis and Ifrit all touch on what has become known as the Sea of Ruin. The area also includes the nearby coasts, where ancient cities and structures lay toppled and decayed.
The waters of the Sea of Ruin are particularly dark, as if light has trouble penetrating into its depths. Numerous sea monsters dwell in the waters and sahaugin attacks on ships during storms are all too common.
The coast is dotted with ancient ruins that have been deserted for centuries and are now inhabited by the numerous monsters too savage and dangerous for any nation of community or laws.
Despite interest in the region, few detailed maps exist, and any mention of these ruins is absent from the history books.
History
Rumors and Tales:
• Not at all a nice beach, the countless shipwrecks and sea monsters make traversing these waters very difficult. It doesn't help that the sea here is particularly deep, extending several miles down into the inky blackness of the dark zone and beyond, where unfathomable horrors lurk.
• The sahuagin of this sea have made efforts to establish something akin to an undersea kingdom ruled by a council of sahuagin sea-witches. Back when the land-dwellers used to live near the coast, the sahuagin were fond of capturing and dragging helpless citizens down into the depths where they faced fates far worse than drowning...
• The sahuagin have also been rumored to be attempting to tame some of the terrible sea serpents and giant marine horrors in the area. So far they have had limitless success and have lost many dreadfish-tamers.
• The sea-witches are said to be the main cause of the frequent storms, or at the very least, the cause of the ones that are more sudden and violent.
• An old man is said to live on a tiny island all by himself in this sea. The stories and accounts of meeting him are far from pleasant--he is said to murder and eat people who come to his island, be conspiring with the sahuagin, making vile sacrifices and unholy rites to unknowable undersea gods, and all other manner of horrible things. One thing is confirmed, though: the man is not a kind or good person by any means.
• No one remembers the ancient civilization that existed on the coast, but some think that all the trouble in this sea is because of something that they did. Something that they woke up, or cut a deal with, or even some kind of accidental disaster that they inadvertently caused that brought about the collapse of their civilization. They say that whatever they did is the reason that no one
has recorded what exactly happened to them.
Type
Inland Sea
Location under