Norshore

The inhospitable shoreline of the Kingdom of the North Heath is marked on maps as Norshore but sailors familiar with the area have other, far-less-kind names. Cliffs and jagged rocks provide no safe harbor for ships, and the wisest sailors know that even coming near the shore here is hazardous. The mountain range of the island of Lymossus (home of the City-State of Castorhage) to the southwest actually extends northward toward Norshore, but those mountains don’t rise far enough from the ocean bottom to break the surface of the Crescent Sea. Alas, a number of those jagged peaks come close enough to the surface to damage the hull of a ship, particularly during large storms with significant swells. The underwater mountain range creates a variable depth in the area near Norshore with some peaks only a few feet below the surface and deep valleys extending thousands of feet down. As a result of differing depths, a wide variety of ocean-going creatures call the area home.
Captains of the fishing boats that work the waters off the coast of Norshore know the area, and its risks, well. The rich fishing makes the hazards worthwhile, but nobody chances sailing close to the coast in stormy seas. Pods of killer whales and other creatures hunt here as well, but only rarely harass boats.

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Coast / Shore