The Waters of the Ancients

Old equatorial waters west of Baramma Place Baramma The great jungle island east of Tarkdaara, separated from the mainland by the Bram Sea and home to the Bar., named for the ancients - the old tribal Iru People Iru The progenitors, and the only naturally evolved people of Elshore. societies of the deep past whose world ended near here when Aesur Salli landed on Baramma and the Second Great Purge began. The name is a memory the waters keep.

Key traits

  • Equatorial, west of Baramma; named for the lost ancient Iru.

South-west of Baramma the sea shallows over a drowned country, and the charts write the only name it has ever needed: the Waters of the Ancients. Old-world structure floors the whole reach: walls, ways, and rooms, softened by coral into geometry with the details forgiven. At low spring tides the tallest of it stands into the air and streams. The city of Porkar Place Porkar The sea-city above the Waters of the Ancients, standing on a drowned old-world coast where towers older than the city show at low tide like teeth. harvested it once, carefully; the later age mostly looks, which the divers' descendants say the place prefers.

Elshore - a work in progress. Inferred, not told