Tide Watch

A monitoring platform on stilts at the Reach's perimeter, tracking the water levels that creep steadily inland. Tide Watch provides the early warning system for Floodmark, West Reach, and the inland settlements. Its gauges are read twice daily; the readings have never once shown the water receding. 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.