The Antigenes
A shoal covered in water part of the year, the Antigenes make for some of the best oysters and conch around.
Geography
A shoal comprised of rocky outcroppings and the skeletal remains of billions of shellfish.
Ecosystem
The life in, on, and around the shoal is as diverse as the stars in the sky.
Ecosystem Cycles
It is technically in a temperate zone, but it is close enough as not to matter most of the year.
Localized Phenomena
It has been reported that strange lights and odd, otherworldly singing can be heard around the Antigenes if the weather is just right.
Fauna & Flora
The shoals are simply teeming with an abundance of marine life. Sharks, sponges, crustaceans, corals...all can live in, on, or near the shoals. Pollock, blenny, and wrasse are in high supply as far as the piscine entries into the wild splay of life. Grouper weighing up to eight hundred pounds find plenty of food and shelter among the crags and crannies of the shoals, also a prize for many sport fishers.
Natural Resources
Fish, bro!
History
Known as "Brokestem Straights" for the sheer number of sunken vessels around this shoal, there are many ghost stories and sailor superstitions surrounding the Antigenes. The first historical mention of them by that name, however, was in Gatton Gagnon's seminal work entitled Widow's Bane, published by Kowloon Press in 893NG. A work of fiction, it is a tale of the Shoals as living creatures. Malignant forces that steal away women's husbands and sons.
Tourism
There is a certain amount of "Dark Tourism"; but for the most part, the Antigenes are only frequented by fishermen.
Alternative Name(s)
Brokestem Straights
Type
Shoal
Location under
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