Tamarack Sound

The Tamarack Sound is a shallow sea separating Tamoanchan's northern peninsula from Eria. Apart from the isle of Tamawa and a scattering of rocky outcrops near Iyata and Akwatuk, it has no land at all. The bottom lies at a fairly even 100 feet or so, sloping gently deeper toward its northwestern meeting with the Elysium Sea; at the southwestern end an undersea cliff drops into the deeper Ocaraba Channel, which leads on to the Antillan Channel and the Atlantean Ocean.

Its water is warm except in the north around Iyata and Akwatuk, and it swarms with colorful exotic fish and many kinds of turtle; Awashata Bay on the Erian coast is especially rich. In the middle, giant sea snakes live in thick tangles of undersea weed, and the submerged mounds among them are often dens of giant snapping turtles. Shark-riding Makara from the Sargasso and the Antillan Channel come in now and then, and Tritons from Antilla or the Elysium Sea even more rarely; the dangers usually keep both away, though Tritons sometimes use the Sound to keep up a thin link between their two peoples.

Among humans, only the Erians of Tamarack use it regularly, staying mostly in Awashata Bay and fishing and traveling the coast in bark canoes usually about eight feet long but sometimes twenty or more. People from Kulugmiut occasionally come south out of the cold Erian Ocean, but such visits are said to be very rare.