Firth of Perou
Norrun’s narrow shelter, where river ice and sea surge negotiate every spring.
The firth reaches toward Norrun through the northern coast. In cold years its surface carries sledges; in warmer ones the incoming swell breaks the ice without clearing it. Harbor families keep both runners and oars ready by the same door.
The Norrun Ice Truce was signed on a grounded boat here after armies on opposite banks found their common crossing had failed. The boat remains a meeting house above the quay. Its timbers have begun moving against their fastenings whenever the Hornbeambeck River warms, as if trying to return to a forest that still recognizes them.
Opposing patrols shared a stranded boat after their common ice crossing failed.
A firth capital built around the boats that bring northern settlements through winter.
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.