The Sea of Lament

The Sea of Lament—known colloquially as the Great Sea—is the body of water that fills the massive divide between the eastern continent of Osan and the...

Maritime Trade and Travel

The first sea crossing between the separated continents occurred roughly a century after the Split, during the period known as the Sundering Grief. Th...

The Shattered Arch

Squarely in the center of the Sea of Lament, the Shattered Arch rises from the waves like the broken spine of a drowned giant. It is a chaotic archipe...

The Iron Drift

In the northern waters of the Iron Reach, locked in ice for most of the year, a massive island sits in cold silence. The Iron Drift is the largest sin...

The Veiled Isles

At the southern end of the Sea of Lament, in the warm waters of the Shimmering Gulf, a chain of active volcanic islands rises from the ocean in a curt...

The Deep Ruins

The Sea of Lament covers the remains of the world that was. When the Split tore Etherea apart, not everything sank cleanly. Across the seabed, the dro...

Life on the Sea of Lament

The Sea of Lament has produced its own culture—distinct from both Volaxia and Osan, though borrowing from both. Sailors, island-dwellers, and maritime...