Tear's Bay
A bay by the Erg province of Rafadin Place Rafadin The island province promised to the Ergs by the AC 1 war council and now administered by the Iru of Iruel in name more than in justice., close to where the Meagre Sea Place The Meagre Sea The narrow water between the Iru homeland of Iruel and the Erg province of Rafadin. failed to keep the Iru People Iru The progenitors, and the only naturally evolved people of Elshore. out. Its name belongs to the dispossessed Ergs of Rafadin - the tears of a people the sea did not protect.
Key traits
- By Rafadin, near the Meagre Sea and Namii's Reach Place Namii's Reach A reach of open water off Rafadin and the western mainland, named for Namii, one of the two suns of Elshore..
Tear's Bay hangs off the north-western coast below Namii's Reach, a small cold water with a possessive name and no surviving owner. Whose tear, the coast folk cannot say; the apostrophe is the only monument. It is a fishing bay of modest habits, kind in summer, blunt in the dark months, and its villages keep the name unexplained on purpose: a grief that has lost its story is still owed its geography.