Daugh Bay
Daugh Bay (Dael Bá na Dhaugh) is a body of water on the north-western coast of Messenia; its shoreline is divided in roughly equal parts between the countries of Fiobha, Laora and Odann. Hydrologically, it is an offshoot of the Arcedian Sea, to which it is linked by the Shrawn Channel and the Dulin Channel in the north and south respectively. The bay is the outlet to the sea of the river Daugh, from which it takes its name and which enters the bay in its south-eastern corner close to the major city of Clachán; it plays the same role for the Lorrim in the west, which forms most of the border between Fiobha and Laora.
For much of the Common Era Daugh Bay has been the chief outlet onto the sea for Odann, which controlled its entire coastline between 1498, in which year Odann conquered the neighbouring kingdom of Laora, and 1958, when the modern states of Fiobha and Laora were formed as part of the Treaty of Ostari. Clachán, the region’s chief city, prospered on its maritime trade; it was the first Odannach city to achieve a population in excess of 100,000 (by 1620), and would not be outstripped in size by the capital, Ráth, until the early stages of the Industrial Revolution in Messenia in the later 19th century.
The bay contains several islands, of which the largest, Inisholter, forms a province of Fiobha in its own right. Fiobha also controls the smaller Creigeach Islands west of Inisholter; these were assigned to the new country at Ostari, although possession was for many years disputed by Laora (the islands having been historically part of the Odannach province of Laora), and a brief attempt was made by the Laorans to claim them by force before they agreed to the treaty position in late 1992.