The Vilyet Sea is a great inland freshwater sea that runs from the present day Caspian Sea North to within several leagues of the Arctic Ocean. The sea is over 100 miles wide and two thousand miles long. It acts as a great barrier between east and west and is home to a great multitude pirates and strange magical creatures both on its shores and in its depths. If it wasn’t the most dangerous body of water to traverse in the world it could become the most valuable trade route in the world.