Inner Sea

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Map illustrating the historical trade routes that stretch across the breadth of Cymlun and into the Inner Sea

The Inner Sea is a sea located to the southwest of Urcinne differentiated from the nearby Mngwer Sea by its rich abundance of largely volcanic islands.

Trade[edit | edit source]

Beyond the eastern corridor sea lays a heaven on earth in the form of a thousand islands, each isle bearing exotic fruits and spices that satisfy all the senses, and each one having a weight worth in gold

–From a public statement issued by Chancellor of Xhequa Ambrose Yorke recruiting sailors for Inner Sea expeditions, 1549


For millennia the islands of the Inner Sea have been the nexus of a whole constellation of trade routes selling rare goods indigenous to the islands, including spices such as nutmeg, cinnamon and sugar, as well as other exotic plant products such as cocoa, olives and tobacco.

The trading of these products have long been a lucrative business. Nations across the northern and eastern Cymluni coasts and in Neira, in particular Xhequa, Mainath, Variyako and Varland, owe much of their economic prosperity to Inner Sea trade, as well as the various empires of Southern Cymlun, including the still-reigning Empire of Yashurhiel, which since the 1550's has even established colonies on several islands in an attempt to monopolize trade.

In the modern era, the islands - as well as the central jungles of Urcinne itself - have been a key source of slaves for the nations of the Old and Western worlds. Former colonies located in Urcinne, such as Sine Weythern, Makrisa and Oymlunei, have since their founding enjoyed easy access to both local slave populations as well as a close proximity to the Inner Sea, which once poured wealth into Amlei during the colonial era, and have since allowed their independent successors to become significantly wealthy in their own right.

Piracy[edit | edit source]

Piracy has been a virulent problem to merchants for thousands of years. Amongst all the sea-thieves of the various nations of past and present, the Abata pirates of northeastern cymlun have long plagued the Inner Sea trade routes in the sea of Mngwer, and the Hobrian pirates of old have attained great infamy for their plundering of ships in Ansyln Sea arriving from the Inner Sea, a phenomenon halted only by the conquest of the Hobrian nations by the Kingdom of Atraeth. Pirates from local Inner Sea indigenous nations, including Wanijmangura, Yuatma, Tlaxunawal and Yupanxla, have also been treacherous in their raids, some of whom have been contracted by colonial nations to reave the ships of other colonial nations, with two notable examples being that of Yashurheil and Wanijmangura and Xhequa and Nasu.