The Ooliel Islands
A far-eastern equatorial island group adrift in the danger-waters of the Ooliel Belt Place The Ooliel Belt The great equatorial expanse of the eastern Great Water, where the maps of every imperial power give out., glimpsed by the few ships that returned and never reliably mapped twice. What lives on them, if anything, no imperial record holds; their unknowing is deliberate.
Key traits
- Inside the Ooliel Belt, far eastern Great Water Place The Great Water The great eastern ocean of Elshore, the open water reaching east toward the world's far side.; a rumour-place at the world's edge.
The Ooliel Islands scatter across the far south-eastern ocean, green-backed and reef-ringed, the home waters of the Ooliran faith Faction Ooliran Faith The oldest canonised religion on Elshore, the Ooliran Faith is the state religion of the Grand Kingdom of Iruel and predates Randenism by thousands of years.'s oldest songs. Every island is a syllable, the faith says, and the archipelago a sentence the sea has been saying for an age; the missionaries who carried the belief west never quite translated the sentence, only the reverence. Landfall there is by channel and courtesy, both learned from the islanders or not at all.