Aya-Maru

Aya-Maru is a deep underwater trench that almost splits the centre of the aquatic nation of Xidao. While Xidao is a nation of relatively pacifistic athamarus, cecaelias, and tritons, the Aya-Maru is why it has never known true peace. While most of the Xidao Gulf is only a few hundred feet deep, the Aya-Maru is over three miles deep with some claiming it has no bottom, instead linking to some deep underwater region of Hell itself. The walls of Aya-Maru are riddled with caves and cavern complexes where countless tribes and petty kingdoms of sedacthys and merrows lair.

Were these bickering groups ever to be united under a single leader, the devastation they could cause Xidao and the land-bound kingdoms surrounding it would be apocalyptic. But something even worse lurks below this, as at the deepest points of the Aya-Maru dwell the krakens. These vast, powerful, and malevolent beings almost never visit the surface, and those who do are normally outcasts or exiles banished from Aya-Maru's benighted depths.

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