Deep Reach

The Drowned Reach's largest settlement and de facto capital, built on an artificial island constructed from the rubble of structures that the rising waters claimed. Deep Reach is part city, part raft — its outer districts float on pontoons while its core rests on compacted stone. Sunken Port below it handles the underwater salvage that keeps the city supplied. In the Drowned Reach, this site is one of the half-drowned settlements that rebuild themselves on stilts every generation around the Sunken City. The sea is steadily reclaiming the coast, and the Echo is the regional Fray-consequence that haunts the deeper channels. What the tide takes here, it usually takes for a reason — sometimes a Shard, sometimes a name, sometimes only the road that used to lead inland.