The Fold

In speech, The Fold refers to as the ocean seperating the Eastern Continents from the Western Fold continent. More specifically The Fold is a 100 mile wide current of choppy, icy, and dangerous water that flows north to south directly in the middle of the ocean.

The Ocean
Roughly 700 miles wide at its widest point, The Fold is mysteriously one of the oldest known landforms referred to as the same name throughout the history of the world's literature. It is increasingly warm on it's edges, more specifically the edge on the Westfold.

The Fold
Roughly a 100 mile wide icy and perilous current that flows nearly pole to pole straight down the middle of the ocean. As a whole the ocean is seen as fairly safe but The Fold itself is extremely dangerous. Only in the recent millenia has it been commonly been traverseable. Technology and seafaring knowledge and skill are slowly making The Fold easier to navigate.

It is plagued with deceptive ice bergs, creatures of monstrous size both mythical and very real,  high waves, random miniature currents and nightly storms.

Significance
The fold is cultural diving line. Since the beginning of time it has seperated the East from the West and the mostly non-magical humans from the highly magical racially diverse and wild Westfold continent and its outlying continents.

Prior to the recent age and Millo the Conqueror's historic crossing of The Fold, it was a nightmarish ocean that seemed impassable for millenias. The Fold still remains, in both truth, literature, and fables, one of the densest magical areas in the world. Ice bergs so big they have their own names as islands, putting the fables of Dragon Rock to shame. Creatures so monstrous and feared they were commonly referred to as demi-gods in the old eras. The Fold was a place of fear, and those that are superstitious hold it in the highest regards.

The Wizard Syndicate has yet to acknowledge any specific significance of The Fold or it's powers.