The Shoals or Mael's Shoals of the Forgotten, was a legendary place where the Elder God Mael sent those who displeased him. It was a becalmed sea of complete quiet with a pale, colourless sky and monotonous horizon. Crowded with a fleet of ships of all description and millennia of flotsam and jetsom, the sea was so salty that nothing could sink. Visitors to the shoals faced mazes of ships, some still manned by their insane crews, and monstrous eels. Time passed differently there from other realms, so even if one did escape it might be to a point years after one's first imprisonment.