Dravak Tides
The western ocean of Elshore, the open water reaching west of the equatorial and southern continents. No detailed account of the Dravak Tides is recorded yet; the name marks the western sea on the world map.
Key traits
- Its official AC 50 name in the old registers is Laila trawa-sa-is; the common name is already what the road and the sea-lanes say, and by the later age it is all that remains in daily speech.
- The western ocean of Elshore, off the west of the equatorial and southern landmasses.
- No detailed information is recorded yet about the Dravak Tides; only its place on the map is established.
The Dravak Tides are the western fact of the world: an ocean so wide that every coast facing it has a word for the particular loneliness of watching it. Its swell is generated somewhere no chart reaches and arrives with the authority of long travel; its storms are seasons, not events. The old registers call it Laila trawa-sa-is, and even the Iru People Iru The progenitors, and the only naturally evolved people of Elshore., who measured everything, seem to have recorded the far side of it as an intention rather than a place. Ships work its edges the way mice work the edges of a hall. The middle belongs to the water, and the water has never said what it does there.