Sea of Rising Suns
The gulf lying east of Iruel Place Iruel The island homeland of the Iru, the last sovereign Iru realm, ruled by King Thaare II from the twin capitals of Orelo and Ekree under the breath-law of the Ooliran Sovereign Bre... and west of Northland Place Northland The northern continent of Elshore, called Northland in common speech, on which every chapter of the story so far unfolds., on whose shore the Iru People Iru The progenitors, and the only naturally evolved people of Elshore. co-capital of Ekree cuts its harbours from living cliff-face. A working water of the western realms.
Key traits
- Its official AC 50 name in the old registers is Nousanno'uhiilïï'flu; 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.
- Between Iruel and Northland.
- Ekree, an Iru co-capital, stands on it.
Nousanno'uhiilïï'flu in the old registers: the Sea of Rising Suns, the north-western water that catches both suns at dawn and holds them, briefly, like coins in a dark hand. The effect lasts a few minutes and has been worth the whole cold crossing to travellers for as long as travellers have kept accounts. The rest of the day it is a working sea, grey and punctual, as if embarrassed by its own mornings.