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Serina's deepest inland lake holds secretive species both beautiful and bizarre.

In the middle of the northern continent of Serinarcta, 290 million years PE, lies the deepest body of freshwater on the moon of Serina. The Centralian Sea has a significantly smaller diameter than the polar basin, yet holds more than three times as much water, much of which is concealed underground. At a maximum of 6,250 feet in depth, this inland sea lies in a continental rift formed during the end of the ice age 20 million year ago, when tectonic activity violently returned to the surface for a brief period, splitting the crust in the center of Serinarcta and leaving behind an immense crater which immediately filled with water from the surrounding saturated landscape. This inland sea has many connections into a labyrinth of underwater caves, the coalseams, which open into the sea's rocky coastlines, and some of these are flowing underground rivers hundreds of miles long. Connected to this open body of water and to an abundance of nutrients, the caves that can be accessed from within the Centralian Sea are the most productive cave ecosystems of the entire coalseam system.

The Centralian Sea is located in an immense rift valley, its surface hundreds of feet below sea level. The water of the sea, so extremely deep and with much of it underground, is cooler than the surrounding land. This means warm air is drawn from the surrounding forest and savannah and descends down into the valley, producing strong gusts of wind nearly all the time, which kick up rough waves and make this among the choppiest inland waterways on Serina.This also produces a continuous cover of fog that drifts across the water, obscuring its shores, and making the sea appear even more vast and mysterious than it already is.This fog usually persists even on the sunniest of days.

New entry with several new species has been released here! sites.google.com/site/worldofs…

Description

Serina's deepest inland lake holds secretive species both beautiful and bizarre.

In the middle of the northern continent of Serinarcta, 290 million years PE, lies the deepest body of freshwater on the moon of Serina. The Centralian Sea has a significantly smaller diameter than the polar basin, yet holds more than three times as much water, much of which is concealed underground. At a maximum of 6,250 feet in depth, this inland sea lies in a continental rift formed during the end of the ice age 20 million year ago, when tectonic activity violently returned to the surface for a brief period, splitting the crust in the center of Serinarcta and leaving behind an immense crater which immediately filled with water from the surrounding saturated landscape. This inland sea has many connections into a labyrinth of underwater caves, the coalseams, which open into the sea's rocky coastlines, and some of these are flowing underground rivers hundreds of miles long. Connected to this open body of water and to an abundance of nutrients, the caves that can be accessed from within the Centralian Sea are the most productive cave ecosystems of the entire coalseam system.

The Centralian Sea is located in an immense rift valley, its surface hundreds of feet below sea level. The water of the sea, so extremely deep and with much of it underground, is cooler than the surrounding land. This means warm air is drawn from the surrounding forest and savannah and descends down into the valley, producing strong gusts of wind nearly all the time, which kick up rough waves and make this among the choppiest inland waterways on Serina.This also produces a continuous cover of fog that drifts across the water, obscuring its shores, and making the sea appear even more vast and mysterious than it already is.This fog usually persists even on the sunniest of days.

New entry with several new species has been released here! sites.google.com/site/worldofs…