Syvash

 Got in pretty deep with mapping yesterday.  Starting with this section northeast of Or-Kapi in the Crimea:

At last, this section reached coastline ... and one thing about doing a coastline is that it's hard to plot when being limited to one section at a time.  Thus I plotted several sections and put together this composite map:

This is just the start.  I'll have more to add as I move one line to the south, which I'll start mapping tomorrow.  For the time being, we can talk about the "Rotten Sea," a name made for D&D.

Called the Syvash or Sivash, even the Putrid Sea, it's a 3,900 sq.m shallow body of water cutting the Crimean Peninsula off from the mainland of the Ukraine.  With a silt bottom and extreme salt content, the sea is very shallow, in most places just 20 to 39 inches deep.  A person can literally wade across it, except that the silt is mucky and one would probably get stuck in it.  The shores are a miserable salt marsh, making much of the coast utterly impractical for farming.  As wikipedia describes, when it gets hot, the sea stinks.

What a place for monsters!  A party rowing slowly along in a skiff, poking along the islands, the air plaguing their ability to eat and the potential for getting lost all offer a great opportunity for adventure.

From the above, I continued to map eastward ...

I'd skipped ahead with mapmaking and had to copy some of the previous map here, as the Syvash cuts between both the Crimean and Azov sheets.  Once again, I had to map the coastline extensively, to make the lines match up:

It gets complicated.  I chose to print both finished maps without the background, which makes the whole look very messy.  Genichan, modern Genichesk, sits at the point where the Syvash debouches its extra water into the Black Sea.  Let me group both maps together to give the whole coastline to this point.

Fun, fun, fun.  Glad I had vacation to sort this out.