The Sload of Thras may have been original inhabitants of Summerset as well, as the oldest of all the ruins there are made of coral, thought to have been carried a great many miles away from the sea. Much like the beastfolk being the aboriginals of Tamriel since the early Merethic, the Sload are the tribe of beastmen native to Thras. ![]() There, the buoyant creatures move about with relative quickness and grace through an intricate network of coral formations and ancient shipwrecks. Many Altmer have been captured by the Sload, but a few were able to escape to tell of the brackish lagoon in the center of the island chain. The true and permanent aspect of Thras, however, is not something mapmakers would know merely by looking at the land above the surface. Descriptions of the Sea of Pearls place it in the vicinity of Pankor and The Systres, but whether these islands are considered part of Thras or not is not stated. Thras is much too small to be considered a continent on its own, and is not part of Tamriel in any kind of political or cultural way. The largest of the islands, Agonio, seems the most stable, though later maps show it considerably larger than earlier maps. Thras is found southwest of the Chain and near Summerset, in the Cursed Sea within the Sea of Pearls. ![]() Over the centuries, other maps have been charted by spies and the number and size of the islands have varied, suggesting that the amphibious Sload have a volatile kingdom which fluctuates in land mass, either by the tides or some other, less natural means. The first maps that were made by cartographers, who sailed to Thras and lived to tell the tale, show a group of sixteen islands in a semicircle, like a partially submerged coral atoll. The Sload live in both the waters and islands of Thras, growing in the water during their youth before moving onto the land when they mature.
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