Sunken Isle

Whatever it might once have been, the Sunken Isle today exists as the half-crumbled lip of a large volcano jutting from the ocean, the now-flooded caldera providing shelter but little sustenance to passing ships. Beneath the surface traces of habitation can be found, ruins speaking of settlements destroyed in a long-passed eruption.

While some foolhardy divers hope to find treasures within such ruins, the more reasonable do not waste their time: in the millennia or more the since the Isle was laid low, all of value has surely been stripped or worn away.

The Sunken Isle today serves as a navigational beacon, favoured particularly by the ships of the Imperial Navy and the Realm's merchant marine for marking the transition between the regional currents and the trade winds that carry ships around the obstacles of the Pelican and Cattle Reefs to and from Wu Jian and the Blessed Isle beyond. From the Sunken Isle, sailors head north to Sushima, west to Jejo, south to Bushan, and east to Altar.