The Gulf
Place · Central Reach
The Gulf is the great wound of the Reach: a vast reach of water ripped into the island's heart in the Cataclysm. When it tore open, the sea it loosed drowned the eighth kingdom outright - the water swept over the land and took everyone with it. Over the Gulf's heart hangs a storm that has never broken in living memory, raised in that same catastrophe: a wall of cloud and lightning that turns back every ship. Sailors give it a wide berth. None who have sailed into the storm have returned, and so the Reach long ago stopped asking what lies at its centre.