The oceans covered the world.
Reputed to be wild and untamable, they formed a forbidden territory for most living beings. Only a handful of species were capable of surviving within them.
For humans, the ocean was not merely a body of water. It was a barrier. A natural, impassable frontier.
Its violence made sustained navigation impossible, and its vastness divided the lands without distinction. Each continent lived isolated from the others, condemned to ignorance.
At the center of the world stretched the continent of humanity. Around it, four other lands existed to the East, West, North, and South.
But for the vast majority, these continents were nothing more than myths. Tales whispered to children to feed their fears.
It was said these lands were teeming with life, foreign… monstrous.
The Calamities.
Only the ocean, so it was said, prevented these creatures from invading the human world. Only a few, endowed with special means, sometimes managed to cross.
