Upper and Lower Seas of Mour

There are two different stories that give the origin of the name of the Seas of Mour. In the first version, Mour is a legendary land. In the tales, it was described as an island that floated around the seas, inhabited by a race of men who had adapted to the water by developing gills and webs between their fingers and toes. Legends tell that Mour would drift on the tides, reaping the ocean's bounty and peacefully existing in harmony with the seas.

The second possible origin of the name is that the sea was named for a man called Mour, a scholar who studied the stars and heavenly bodies. Mour observed the movements of these celestial objects and, through a series of calculations involving time and date, he was able to accurately determine his position anywhere on Layonara. Scorned as a heretic by many, he was challenged by authority and ordered to prove his theory or face banishment. Set adrift in the middle of the sea, he was ordered to bring a leaf unique to Voltrex, Belinara and Tilmar. Mour had never set foot in a boat before, but it is said that with the aid of two convicted brigands, he completed his task, though he never returned to prove his claim. Using his skill he made good his escape from Voltrex and settled on Alindor. In the Great Library of Voltrex there exists a wallet of bound parchments. To an untrained eye they are just a series of scribbles and symbols, but some say these are Mour's workings of navigational formulae.