The Ooliel Belt

The great equatorial expanse of the eastern Great Water Place The Great Water The great eastern ocean of Elshore, the open water reaching east toward the world's far side., where the maps of every imperial power give out. As the western ocean keeps Ooliel's heart Place The Heart A ring of sacred islets in the western ocean off Iruel, the Iru homeland whose faith is the Ooliran Sovereign Breath., these eastern waters carry his belt, the world being his sundered body - and they are a true hazard rather than a sailors' tale: by AC 364 ships that enter the Belt do not come back, and whether it is current, storm, or something that watches is not known. Within it lie the barely-charted Ooliel Islands Place The Ooliel Islands A far-eastern equatorial island group adrift in the danger-waters of the Ooliel Belt, glimpsed by the few ships that returned and never reliably mapped twice. and Scattered Islands Place The Scattered Islands An eastern equatorial island group scattered through the danger-waters of the Ooliel Belt; barely charted and barely known..