| Category | Oceans | ||
| Region | Lands of Purity, Troll Bogs | ||
| Alias | Nôchulûn | ||
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This pseudo-inland body of water was once called Nôchulûn. It had held this name for many thousands of years, named not by the Creationist Benevolence who created Sphere 411, but by those who had come to occupy the area. Covenant forces, those defending the primordial incursion of the Creation War, classified this body of water as a bay. Between 1689 DE and 1721 DE, the bay became a hotbed of the Creation War. Covenant war strategists had fortifications erected along the bay, measures designed to contain primordial incursions via the Radullu Rift.
The expansive bay extended freely from the shores of Adellumm to the vast, powerful waves of the Sea Titan's own domain.
mariner tale - "Lost Bay"
Long after the Dawn Era's great war, the bay became known as the Bog Sea. In the First Epoch, the Tragarans of the Great Exodus came to reside in the Lands of Purity. By this time, two thousand years had elapsed since the bay had been largely sealed off from the Mephigax ocean waters. This resulted from sediment, vegetation, and otherworldly waters flowing south from Radullu (cf. Radullu Rift), then down the Troll Bogs. Buoyed by shambog, this divided the sea, leaving the west a mix of fresh and sea water, and to the east, on the other side of Belnêth, an inland freshwater sea.
The Bog Sea still has access to the Mephigax. Traversing to and from can be a perilous journey. The surrounding region, the Trolls Bogs, is an untamed land, home to numerous perils, including dragons, Scrag, trolls, Graagvrii, and lingering demonic influences from the Demon Spawn War. The sea lanes face a constant threat of pirates and those seeking their next prey. Some of these are slavers, with any captives pressed into service or sold in the Leashed Markets of Nemegral.
Commerce flourished along the sea following the completion of the great canal, Hîngar-Hloth, by Malacost. This established a vital connection between the Bog Sea and the inland Galathien.
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