Straits of Prydith
Located at the junction of the Darsiac Ocean and the Sea of Storms, the Straits of Prydith are more properly a sea themselves. The dozens of islands - with sizes ranging between hundreds of feet to nearly ten leagues - dot waters. The sea itself is quite shallow here, with nearly as many sandbars and underwater rises dotting the shallow sea as their islands. Even worse, pirates working both bodies of water in small, nimble ships have been known to use the islands as a refuge from the Imperial Navy, making the seas around the Straits some of the most dangerous in all of Tarien. These hazards, combined with the influx of storms rolling into the straits from the Sea of Storms, crossing these straits by ship is so treacherous that most merchants simply refuse to make the voyage. They either ply their trade around the edges of the Sea of Storms or work the routes or work the western coast of the Prydith Peninsula from Gartcha in the north then dipping south to Dawn and then Rathgar in Azermathia. Those few that do stick generally run the gauntlet from Drythe, hugging the coastline until fairly deep in the Gulf of Prydith before running south across open water to the southern spoke of the Peninsula only to hug the coast east, south, and then finally back west, adding several days to their journey.
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Strait
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