The bones of aboleth and other ancient things have been found in the rocks of these mountains, turned mysteriously to stone. Surely these peaks are a dead seabed, lifted from its place of rest by some unfathomable force.
Anyone who scales these cliffs will find a seeming impossibility: an ocean, stretching for tens of miles southward, atop a plateau.
The strange force that lifted the ocean left its inhabitants unaffected, and they thrive here though they are seen nowhere else in the world. Long-necked terrible lizards snap at flying reptiles the size of horses, and armoured fish gather in great schools as protection against long-nosed hunters.
Here too, it is said, survive the aboleth, though no man alive claims to have seen them.
Hooks
- Is there an aboleth civilisation here?
- How large is the Ocean?
- Does its salt have any unusual properties?
- What else from bygone days still lives in the Ocean?
Connections
- The Least Ocean is another relic from this time (12.29), though it is much diminished.
