THE LIBRARY · THE MIRRENMERE
The Shallows Line
aka the harbor-lane rule
The plain rule Sresh-Dar's harbor pilots give every newcomer bound for the Mirrenmere: stay inside the lit lanes and the water stays civil; leave them and the archipelago stops being a free port's water at all.
Any pilot at the Sresh-Dar quay will tell you the same thing for free. The lit lanes run straight from the harbor mouth to open sea, and the free port's own boats patrol them day and night, which is the only reason the Mirrenmere reads softer than an archipelago this size should. Row past the last lantern buoy and none of that holds. The drowned valley beyond the lanes doesn't answer to Sresh-Dar's watch, and it doesn't care that you thought it would.
KIND
rule
AUTHOR
Sresh-Dar
FOUND REGION
Sresh-Dar
REVEALS
why the Mirrenmere's shallows read safer than the rest of the archipelago, and exactly where that safety ends
Connected
Type Fields
All Relationships (3)
located_in
- →Sresh-Dar — The rule is given at the Sresh-Dar quay by the free port's own harbor pilots.
authored
- →The Keepers of the Deep — The Deep Keepers' harbor watch is who patrols the lit lanes the rule describes.
references
- →The Hessk — The pilots giving the rule are Hessk, unhurried and literal about where their watch's authority actually ends.
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