Glassfish Margin
A far-western cold-water edge famous for translucent fish and the arrival of strangers.
Shoals of translucent glassfish make the shallow water look empty until the sun strikes it. Fishers use dark-bottomed boats to see their catch, a practical tradition southern writers mistook for mourning. The margin lies above the exposed approaches to Ochererbourne.
During the Glassfish Arrival, boats carrying displaced northern households came ashore with no shared language. Food was exchanged using drawn fish and open hands. Siv Vey has preserved those first pictographs. Some show a coastal city absent from every surviving map, with a road descending beneath its harbor.
Displaced northern households reached the western shore in boats with no recognized registry.
A far-northern channel whose seasonal shore makes borders impossible to draw honestly.
A western coastal reach whose shifting weed banks make reliable charts short-lived.
A sheltered western passage where nursery boats and grain barges exchange cargo.
The southeastern shipping threshold on which small Qirarden can confront larger fleets.
A sheltered recess beneath the southern farm country, used by smugglers and rescue crews alike.