The Great Whirlpool, otherwise known as Tedelnsho (literal translation: really big hole in the water), is a phenomena that has been around as long as History currently records. Since the dim mists of pre-history, this gigantic whirlpool has been spinning. A whirlpool nearly fifteen hundred miles across, a great slow beast turning round and round, never stopping. How it started and what keeps it going is the subject of its mystery. But, there is more that adds to its mystique.

The winds do not blow over Tedelnosho, and nary a cloud passes overhead. No wind to set sail against, the currents will pull in any ship if one gets too close, crashing it down the endless fall of water at its center.

Or would it? There are stories of ships disappearing within Tedelnosho. Not just from sinking, but transported to other places. Some return, bearing with them stories of other places, other worlds, while others return unaware of the long passage of time since they had vanished. Then there are the creatures sometimes seen to exit from the heart of the Whirlpool, ones from other worlds or dimensions. A portal hundreds of miles across? Perhaps. Or perhaps it is something much more, something far beyond what anyone on Maldene suspects.