Ghetu Sea

The Ghetu Sea lies at the center of Galrin, one of the islands of Ionia. It is a sea in name only. Its waters dried away long ago, leaving a desert of petrified bones and dust where open water once stood. Long before that change, the region was home to ancient lizards, and their remains still lie fossilized in the dead seabed. According to legend, a sculptor known as Ymelo gathered fossilized eggs these creatures had left behind, some said to date back a thousand thousand years, and carved them into small, intricate pieces. Each was cut to fit into a larger sculpture, the parts joining so precisely that, combined, they could form another shape altogether. Such carvings came to be known as Ymelo stones, and the golden fragments still surface among traders and fortune tellers far from the dry sea. How much of that tale holds true is hard to say, since it comes down largely through storytellers who weave invention into fact. What is certain is the fate of the sea itself. Once open water, the Ghetu Sea endures today only as a barren waste at the heart of Galrin, its history written in fossil and sand.