Saulean Sea

The Saulean Sea is the largest and westernmost of the Sarpic Seas, cradled in the junction where western Rhydain branches off from southern Orithea and connecting with the Sea of Pearls to its east via the Gates of Ghirn. It is a historic center of human civilization; the lands around its shores were settled by the early descendants of the Unbegotten Men shortly after they left Ulshanru, and these peoples created the first human societies that are known from ancient records. These include early city-states and empires such as Aarb, Kalkidan, XXXXXXX, XXXXX, and XXXXXXX. 
The lands around the Saulean Sea were the also the origin for many of the further human migrations that spread out across Orithea in the ancient past: All the way north to Tirnavon, west to Azhir and the isles beyond, south into Sularia and Vastemar, and, following the Schism Wars, east across the ocean to Achuirea.
In more recent ages, a series of powerful states which have dominated the western Sarpic Seas, and sometimes lands beyond, have also been centered around the Saulean Sea. These include the XXXXXXes (whose central holdings were in northern Sarpadia); Qoss (which, prior to its destruction, was located on the island of Alborak where the Saulean Sea joins the Sea of Pearls), and the still-extant Phyridian Empire (whose heartland is in Pelenaia along the sea’s western edge).