Ghyll:Dagger Seas

Not complete- notes only (As last time, comments appreciated. )

Primus, Segundus, Tertius, and Marty comprise the four Dagger Seas, massive estuaries that empty along with a number of minor estuaries and rivers into the Shallow Gulf. The seas and their associated dagger peninsulas have been a major center for shipping, fishing, and the diffusion of culture between the peoples of Ghyll for centuries.

Geology of the Dagger Seas

The dagger seas and the shallow gulf are all relatively young- based on geological evidence, the center of the Shallow Gulf is likely to have been the site of the ancient city of Avaz Minor, and thus the point of ignition of the Avazian Justice Device during the Third Avazian War. ...

Ecology of the Dagger Seas

The dagger seas comprise a variety of habitats, moving from fairly typical fresh water species at the "points" of the seas to the rich ecosystem life of the placid gulf, with unique ecosystems living in the bodies of the seas themselves, and in the shallow open waters, freshwater and salt marshes, sandy beaches, mud and sand flats, rocky shores, temperate shellfish reefs, forests, and deltas along the margins of the seas themselves. Sea Spiders, Sea Cucumbers, Sea Saws, Sea Monkeys, and a number of other gulf creatures travel up the seas to fresh waters at various points in their life cycles. It is the richness of this environment that allowed nomadic early Ghyllotines to settle on the dagger sea shores.

Ancient History of the Dagger Seas

Archeological research has uncovered settlements of our people on the shores of the Dagger Seas as early as -5000 EC, with the major Dagger Sea city-states rising between -3000 to -2500 EC.

Plentiful fishing, gentle climates, and eventually massive riches from

shipping made the region a popular target of neighboring empires, as well, and large parts of the Dagger Peninsulas have been ruled at various points in history by That Culture of Nomads that Apparently Got Bored of Hunting Elk after a Thousand Years and Forged a Global Empire Over Night and then Apparently Forgot About It Again, That Culture That We Only Really Know About Through Trash Talk by Other Ancient Cultures, That Courtly Empire That Flourished and Developed All Kinds of Knowledge and Technology When We Were Still Huddled In Caves Eating Dirt But Then Fell Almost At Random, and the Nitenmangrey.

Recent History of the Dagger Seas

The lands surround

Captain Riquiras and the brass hell.

Some problems to tease at: Vejur. Carl Sagan. Pirates (ARRRRR!). Link to Alezan/Hideous images/Dark Gods? Geography and Geology- Get some perspective on continental shift over 10,000yrs. Work in a love story. Besq Boats sez: LONG maritime history, Nitenmangrey. "Current research is said to focus primarily on the religious practices of the Nitenmangrey culture." from Bureau of Forgotten Knowledge -- lots of interest here?

And shipping! (Maybe fishing, but fish pirate is a low margin business...)

Seas, like large fjords (rips in the earth,) radiating outward from a single point, with corresponding ithmuses. Geological evidence suggests the seas themselves are relatively young. But not an inland sea- a semi-circle radiating in from the "Big Water" (need to research this...) Smuggling, but no mention of tarriffs (yet)- lots of Samizdat in Ghyll. Council for Quezlarian Research, Aminfarances Institute of Science and Technomancy - competing scholar armies? Naval warefare. Better make these big- less like the great lakes and more like (several) Chesapeake Bays. Maybe a rough edged gulf of mexico?

--Joe Bowers 18:02, 26 Sep 2004 (EDT)