The Constant Sea borders Iberion, Gallica, Toscano and Arrida
The Constant Sea is roughly the equivalent of the Mediterranean in Flanagan's world. It is the setting for numerous books by John Flanagan, including Erak’s Rescue (Ranger’s Apprentice), Slaves of Socorro, Scorpion Mountain, and The Caldera (Brotherband Chronicles)
Location[]
- It provided a border and ocean access for several countries, with rough parallels:
- The Constant Sea also houses a scattering of islands who are seemingly sovereign nations, independent of any united rule. They include:
- Santorillos
- Cypra
Trade Routes[]
- The Constant Sea was an aquatic highway for trade ships, explorers, travelers, and thieves — pirates, raiders, corsairs.
- This sea was haunted by pirates, just as they haunted the Narrow Sea, the Blood Sea, and the Stormwhite Sea
Name[]
- It was named the Constant Sea because it has no big daily tidal changes. Unlike other seas and oceans, the Constant Sea’s water level pretty much stays the same day by day, only rising or falling by a few centimeters. So for practical navigational purposes, its tide neither rises nor falls, neither ebbs nor flows. It is mostly Constant. It behaves like a huge lake. This is mainly because it is almost entirely landlocked, having only one narrow connection to the ocean, at the Narrows of Ikbar (today’s Strait of Gibraltar). Large oceans and their connected seas, whose waters slosh around the globe together in response to the gravitational pull of the moon, experience noticeable tides.