Among the lower classes of the Dead-Anchors Slums and the outlaws of Leviathan’s Rest, a popular religious myth persists: The Prophecy of the Great Sieve.
The myth claims that the ocean didn't evaporate into the sky; it was drained downward.
Believers hold that deep within the Abyssal Trench, beneath the magma forges of The Obsidian Syndicate, lies a colossal, ancient stone plug or drain created by the gods.
A radical cult known as The Brine-Seekers actively launches dangerous expeditions into the deepest, unexplored volcanic rifts. They believe that if they can locate the Great Sieve and clog it with stone and iron, the subterranean waters will violently burst back to the surface, refilling Marvana’s oceans and drowning the tyrannical surface factions.