The Drowned Reach

A drowning coast — half-archipelago, half-salt-marsh — where the sea is steadily reclaiming what was once dry land. The Drowned Reach is the youngest region by recorded history and the oldest by what lies beneath its tides. The Sunken City, accessible only by deep dive at slack water, is one of the few intact pre-Weaving urban sites known to the Vaultkeepers. Tide-towns like Sunken Port, Lowwater, and New Harbor rebuild themselves on stilts every generation. The monster called The Echo haunts the deeper channels — domain rules say the Reach broke here because too many memories were drowned at once, and the Echo is what surfaces when memory tries to reassemble itself without a body. The Cartographic Society of Iterants keeps a permanent expedition based at Flood Station.