In the seas, the furious churning of the ocean kicked up mountains of water as tall as the cliffs surrounding the shoreline.
The Nightmare Sea had always been feared, often rumored to be the true end of Arcadia itself—a place where icy waters simply faded into nothingness, where the world ended in a silent, frozen drop.
No ship should ever sail those tides. Not when two monstrous World Beasts were battling for dominance in its wild depths. Even the hardiest icebreakers would never dare enter these arctic swells. Doom lurked beneath the umbral waters, along with unnamed horrors that legends warned people never to provoke.
Small port towns, islands, and islets clung to their jagged cliffs as the constant howling winds battered them. Tidal forces slammed endlessly against the rocks, shaking wooden houses and sending spray into the streets. Life near the Nightmare Sea was harsh, but people endured.
