Balatur Erui · the Gate of Two Waters →
Basque balea (whale) + Icelandic eyri (sandbank, spit), "Whale-Spit / Whale Shoals"
The one fixed island of the drifting domain, standing in the mouth of the Midarra where the sweet inner sea meets the salt Hafra; the Line of the two unmixing waters touches its western shore. Every cargo passing between the seas changes hulls at Gesalkai, the brackish quay, and the skywhales change worlds: in from the salt singing, rising into the sky over the island, letting fall everything the ocean lodged in them. The islanders take nothing from a whale; they inherit what the sky lets go, and govern themselves by the Undertaking, the underwriters' mutual become a republic, redrawing their catchment skies by lot every seventh year at the Seventh Luck. Every subscribed family holds a horn, and the chorus that clears the gate for a rising whale is the people's whale-song sung back. Inland, around the sleeping mountain Lomendi, live the Stillfolk, who want nothing that falls.
PromotedMutual RepublicThe GateSkywhale Crossing
Floating Isles of Shuun · the Sweetwater League →
Collective name; every island carries its own. The League is the pact of the water between.
The hundreds of drifting islands of the open western Midarra, each one sovereign and each one unlike its neighbors: every docking a new taste, a new dialect, a new right way of doing things. The one shared culture lives afloat, on the blended crews of the boats, and the water between is held by the Sweetwater League, the old thin pact whose whole constitution is one sentence: the League ends at the waterline. The List-house at Uravel keeps the living chart of the whole Midarra and the Rounds, the visit-roster that misses no island; the Raft decides, ships lashed into a temporary parliament; and since 2524 MR a drowned temple of the Nine lies sealed in the deep below, while the Raft keeps almost voting on the Standing Watch. Balaena drifts among them and has its own section below.
PromotedAnthology of IslandsSweetwater LeagueNation Afloat
Northwest Outer Islands TBD
Canon-pending name
A small cluster of Floteyn islets where the domain's eastern boundary touches the coast of
Myrkono and
Lautara, hosting an unnamed shady port town at the resulting tri-domain border. The boundary redraw that makes the tri-point exist, and the town's full canon (name, ruling structure, named institutions), are both pending.
TBDTri-domain border