D&D 5E (2024) Just Because a location is not on the Atlas of Faerun doesn't mean its gone.

[Paul Farquhar]

Greenwood

One would think any Canadian would be familiar with the Great Lakes.

I would just make it freshwater. I’m all for fixing anything that doesn’t make much sense.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

One would think any Canadian would be familiar with the Great Lakes.

Sure, but while a Canadian like myself is basically educated in geography and knows OF the Great Lakes, Canada is large enough that the nearest Great Lake is over three thousand kilometers (or around two thousand miles) from where I live!

I'm more familiar with small towns in the UK, Islands in the Caribbean, and restaurants in Tokyo than I am with the actual Great Lakes!

I would just make it freshwater. I’m all for fixing anything that doesn’t make much sense.

But yeah, it would make more sense to me that way. And heck, it's not like the definition of what a "Sea" is was really set in stone, if you go far enough back.

 

[Gradine]

Well, I drew a plan of Seaton Sluice. That sounds like it could be a place on a pirate or fantasy map.

Yeah that was one of my least favorite dungeons in Final Fantasy XII

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Sure, but while a Canadian like myself is basically educated in geography and knows OF the Great Lakes, Canada is large enough that the nearest Great Lake is over three thousand kilometers (or around two thousand miles) from where I live!

I live a lot further away than that, and one of the few things I learned about Canada in Geography was about the Great Lakes (we did a unit on Baffin island at junior level, but I don't think it was ever mentioned that it was part of Canada). The focus was on trade, but we did touch on fresh water and pollution.

Making it freshwater opens up the possibility of different kinds of encounters, and even storylines, such as a conflict between fresh water lizardfolk and salt water lizardfolk.

But I don't think it's actually been stated that Faerun's oceans have a similar salinity to our world. They could easily be more or less salty even without involving magic.

 

[Parmandur]

OK, a little digging suggests that the formal answer ia that the Sea of Fallen Stars developed salinity in a similar manner to the Caspian Sea over millenia. Water flows in, but the only way it gets out is evaporation, so over time minerals build up.

 

[môrgondír]

Let the night never cease to call you
Let the day nevermore be the same
Though you've gone where we cannot find you
In each heart you have set your name

Myth Nantir far you wander
And long may your name be sung
Through kingdoms of starlight
And realms of the sun
Myth Nantir though you're hidden
We're still guided by your light
You're walking beside us
A friend in the night

We were lost when the dark descended
And the light gathered into a storm
You appeared like a sunlit morning
At the winds of a world at war

Myth Nantir far you wander
And long may your name be sung
Through kingdoms of starlight
And realms of the sun

Myth Nantir though you're hidden
We're still guided by your light
You're walking beside us
A friend in the night

Myth Nantir rising through the shadow
Like a star shining deep in its home
You will dwell in our hearts forever
Nevermore will we stand alone