Blood Sea
Ervenian Era, 1051 AB
The Blood Sea is a crimson gyre without shoreline, which is a hungry ocean where storms are verdicts and predators are policy. Currents snare, wrecks accrue like barnacles, and mercy drowns last.
Security
Enforced by kraken bailiffs, wereshark rangers, and sahuagin press-gangs. Crimes: withholding tithe, calming a storm without license, star-reading to defy her course, harboring the rescued without paying Breath-Debt.Economy and Exchange
Tithes of pearls, captives, charts, iron, and brined luxuries buy escorts, storm-aiming, or safe harbor.Exports
Curse-knots, storm-bladders, shark-tooth arms, drowned-amber. Imports: slaves, steel, rare alchemical coolants (heavily taxed).Customs
The Drowning
Candle-ring, flood-surge, survival equals service; the spared are marked callable at any tide where it is called also the Initiation.Thawing Tide
Ice-break pageant; a bound beast is cast adrift where survivors are sacred chattel.Tempest Invocation
Congregants extinguish drift-candles over offerings to aim a storm or deflect one.Wreck-Tithe
All visitors leave salvage or a living pledge at the Gallows Shoal; refusal invites the sharks’ vote.Broken Oath Law
Oath-breakers lose the ability to hold breath during Squall Hours.Geography
Below a skyless glow, layers of warm scarlet brine ride atop ink-cold trenches. Sargassum rafts knot into drifting crowns; wreck-reefs rise from iron-rich spires; black smokers exhale metallic snow. Red tides bloom along convergences, and colossal maelstroms, imitating Merabyss’s eyes, which they are open and close with her temper, swallowing fleets and spitting them out as jagged graveyards.
Notable Locations
Anchor Throne
A coral-iron ziggurat of fused anchors; Merabyss sits judgment amid chain-curtains.Gallows Shoal
Knife-shoals hung with noose-kelp; site of Wreck-Tithes and drown-sentences.Wreck-Reef Armada
An accreted fleet of hulls, masts, and bones—pirate courts and hag markets within.Sekolah's Run
A trench current patrolled by devil-sharks; tribute buys three breaths of safety.Murkdeeps
Blibdoolpoolp’s grotto-marsh of egg-altars and barnacle idols.Stormwomb
Vortex foundry where hurricanes are midwifed and bartered.Leviathan Gate
Ribs of an ancient behemoth forming a portal to abyssal trenches.Red Sargasso
Drifting city of mats and idols where tempests are brokered, also known as The Crown.Cathedral of Undertow
Whale-bone basilica; tides run backward during high rites.The Teeth of the Queen
Ring of jagged basalt where maelstroms most often open.Travel and Access
Drowned Gates
Sinking through a ship’s anchor-ring while naming Merabyss opens a one-way drop to her outer gyres.Riptide Vortices
Reverse rips from the Plane of Water deliver travelers at storm walls.Wreck-Ways
Linked hulks form tide-tunnels; pilots count bell-buoys of bone for safe drift.Tithe Passage
Presenting pearl, blood, or breath at a Tithe Buoy buys a hour’s escort current—prices rise when the barometer falls.Inhabitants
Wereshark packs (favored), sahuagin war-shoals (under Sekolah’s banner), kuo-toa congregations (under Blibdoolpoolp’s gaze), sea hags, drowned undead, marrow-eaters, merrow press-gangs, kraken bailiffs, leviathans, storm elementals, water weirds, and predatory flora (stinging sargassum, strangler kelp). Petitioners arrive as Drowned or Riptide-Born, shaped by how they met the sea.History
Once, Merabyss had a dominion in the lands of Silvanus, however as she was reluctant to acknowledge the Oak tree, as her superior, she made a pact with Nyx, who promised her powers - and thus through the Gods War, she passed directly into the Water Elemental Plane with such forces, that Istishia, the Primordial, couldn't hold the lines against the vast forces. However ,the fickle nature of Istishia, the Elemental Lord, had left Merabyss to her devices in the Watery Plane.
Trait Type |
Description |
|---|---|
| Gravity | Buoyant/subjective directional (swimmers “choose” up near maelstroms gravity vectors cant toward the vortex. |
| Time | Normal, punctuated by Squall Hours when rites or tempests compress or stretch scenes. |
| Shape & Size | Infinite pelagic expanse with layered thermoclines of brine and blood-tint. |
| Morphic Traits | Water-dominant; currents and reefs mildly morphic to tides and marid courts; divinely morphic in great palaces. |
| Elemental Energy | Water Dominant. |
| Alignment | Chaotic Evil. |
| Magic | Water, storm, compulsion (fear), predation, curse, and ship/weapon-fouling magics are enhanced. Star-reading, safe-passage wards, broad calm-sea effects, and redemption miracles are impeded. |
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