Forgotten Sea

An old sailors' saying advises steering south from the Fangs of Lemuria with the Twisted Cross above the bow to reach the marvels of the Lost Land. Few have dared this vast ocean in living memory, and though eastern seafarers know where it lies and what it is reputed to be, only a handful of obscure ancient stories hint at what it holds. The Lost Land probably means Mu, a big, mostly empty continent little known outside the Elysium Sea isles and shown accurately only on the oldest maps, about which travelers' reports mix fact and fancy.

The sea covers everything south of Punt past the Isles of Ozar, Lemuria and Mu as far as the Isle of Dreams, with the Nether Realm forming its far edge. To the west it blends into the southern Atlantean Ocean; eastward it meets the Stygian Sea, whose reputation is even worse. Altogether it wraps around two-thirds of the globe.

Its southern reaches are clogged with icebergs and floes and home to many kinds of whales, seals and sea lions, along with big flightless swimming birds that gather on the ice to breed. Near the Nether Realm, strange elemental and demonic beings are said to roam, delighting in wrecking ships and killing sailors. Tradition also places the friendly Ice Nymphs in the far south.