The Pale Deep
A large, pale-watered open sea in the eastern reach of Northland Place Northland The northern continent of Elshore, called Northland in common speech, on which every chapter of the story so far unfolds., lying just south of the Inarin Chillmeadow Place Inarin Chillmeadow A cold fern-tundra in the north, within the Maan Empire's reach, carrying the name of the fallen Inarin - the old Iru empire. and north of the jungle island of Baramma Place Baramma The great jungle island east of Tarkdaara, separated from the mainland by the Bram Sea and home to the Bar. - one of the map's major open waters. Beyond its extent, no lore is yet set down.
Key traits
- A major eastern sea of Northland, between the Inarin Chillmeadow to the north and Baramma to the south; one of the map's major open waters.
Dho Gin Bur, the old charts write, and the plain tongue translates exactly: the Pale Deep. Off the north-eastern coast the seafloor falls away into water that turns a blind milky jade over the abyss, pale where every other deep is dark. No one has given the paleness a cause that survives a second voyage. Fishing crews work its rim and call the colour the lid, and do not fish the middle, not because anything has happened there, but because it looks like a place where something intends to.