Inland Sea

The Inland Sea is a body of water located in the northern hemisphere of Valdennia. Along its shores can be found the territories of the Rus, the Roum and the Cartha. The lands to the north and south of the Inland Sea are traditionally considered to be the 'grazing lands' of the Tugars and the Merki.

In Rally Cry, it is described in the following manner, after the first exploratory voyage of the Ogunquit: 'The sea was indeed landlocked, as he had suspected, with the Rus on the northern edge. Rarely was it more than a hundred miles in width, but it had stretched nearly five hundred miles southward, bordered by wide-open steppes to either side.'

Later descriptions and maps make it clear that the Inland Sea is much wider from east to west than initially reported, and is broadly shaped like an inverted triangle, with a surface area comparable to Earth's Caspian Sea. Moreover, the sea isn't quite landlocked, as it drains through a narrow straight to the south of the city of Cartha, possibly as far as the Great Southern Ocean.