Bay of Lindom

The Bay of Lindom is an inlet of the Malphigian Sea that cuts about 25 miles into the Addaran coastline between the shires of Lindomshire and Duneshire. The largest settlement on the bay is the city of Southport whose busy piers see considerable shipping traffic both from Evenhold and from far-off lands to the south. The port suffered several attacks in the last century both from human pirates and sea-faring goblins, prompting the kingdom to strengthen its walls and construct defensive harbor fortifications.

Smaller localities on or near the Lindom coast include the towns of Yomber, Nesslebay, Hogarth, and Hythe, along with a handful of scattered fishing villages. A long-disused castle and watch tower stand along the northern coast a few miles from Southport.

Various species of fish, whales, and other sea life flourish in the warm waters of the bay, but fishermen must be wary of the many prowling sharks.

The bay indirectly owes its existence to adventure writer Derek Jeter, who in his hand-drawn maps for The Treachery of Zorag shows the city of Southport sitting on a stretch of east-west coastline along the sea. I'd broadly patterned the local coastline south of Evenhold to match the northwest/southeast angle indicated by Pat Hurst in his Eamon Gazetteer, but incorporating a modestly-sized inlet was a compromise that allowed my map to stay reasonably consistent with both.

Jeter's map also seems to suggest that the sea near Southport extends far east and north all the way to Behlos City and beyond, but this would have conflicted more profoundly not just with Hurst's map but with various other adventures that are set in lands to the south and east, so I instead chose to interpret them as two separate and more widely-separated bodies.

Bay of Lindom

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