Lore:Glenumbra Banks

Glenumbra Banks
Type	Archipelago
Continent	Tamriel
Province	High Rock

The Glenumbra Banks are a series of shifting sand bars and narrow islets off the northwest coast of High Rock. They are littered with rotting spars and twisted planks of shipwrecks, the remains of ships that attempted to cross the Banks' treacherous and ever-changing channels. Guiding ships wend merchant vessels through the channels and are well paid for the job.

Even after calm, stormless nights, the sands shift and the Banks change. The morphous nature of the Banks cannot be attributed to the far-off Herne Current, nor the westward Yokudan Zephyr. An explanation, offered by a veteran navigator of the Banks, is that the legendary, immortal leviathan Ithguleoir causes the changes. Supposedly, the monster's oily back can be seen breaching the water's surface as he digs devious traps in the Banks.

Notes

The landmass, faintly seen over the horizon

• In The Elder Scrolls Online, a large landmass can be viewed over the horizon of the Eltheric Ocean near Farwatch Tower in Glenumbra. According to then-Lead Loremaster Lawrence Schick, this is part of the Glenumbra Banks.

See Also

Books

• Beware the Glenumbra Banks by Garric the Pilot — A discussion of the banks surrounding Glenumbra

References

Note: The following references are considered to be unofficial sources. They are included to round off this article and may not be authoritative or conclusive.