The Wandering Sea

The Wandering Sea is of indeterminate area, depth, and salinity, as all attempts to measure any of these attributes inevitably leads to rusting of instruments older than the 10th century, and the breaking down of instruments newer than the 10th century. What expeditions that have reached the floor of the Sea have found numerous ‘deeply upsetting things, of which none should ever be spoken of’. It is therorized that many of these such things are either eldritch or temporally displaced in nature, and due to the existence of ‘Triangle Trade’, nothing can be ruled out.

The Wandering Sea is typically very calm, though outside forces as well as its own self-contained weather patterns can cause squalls, hurricanes, typhoons, and monsoons.

The Wandering Sea has been mentioned in various ancient writings, from the Gamma version of Homer’s Odyssey, where the titular war hero encounters “A stretch of ocean without land, / that echos with the roars of dead monsters and lost sailors / that we encountered after escaping the she-beast Scylla” (Homer 11.209-211), to the pre-Christianity Scandinavian Saga of the Dragon-Riders, where the war veteran Magnus Blade-Voice speaks of “‘That great sea off the coast of the Giant’s Spine, where Thormir and Skalde had died, and where their ship Swiftsails yet still lays, beneath the sea-serpents and the ocean giants and the whale-voiced beckoners’” (Dragon-Riders 49).   In the modern era, several known paranatural groups have had interests in the Wandering Sea: the Chatter & Melody Society (CMS), the International Paranatural Council of Nations (IPCN), the Inter-Culture League of Supernatural Beings (ICLSB), the likely defunct Shooting Star Division (PPZ), and the possibly defunct Independent Preternatural Legion (IPL). The Society sought to map the Sea and its possible entry and exit locations, and both the Council and League wanted to define the borders of the Sea (as they did with the Forest of Echos and the Vast Frontier). The goals of the Division and the Legion are as of yet unknown.