Trench of Lopok

The Trench of Lopok, also known as 'Sekolah's Trench by sahuagin, was a deep ocean trench in the undersea realm of Serôs.

Etymology
The name of this trench was derived from the locathah word for kraken.

Geography
This deepwater trench ran from north to south in the Sea of Fallen Stars and was located west of the underwater Mountains of Volar.

The Trench of Lopok had a steep decline to the bottom of the sea, its sides descending into a near vertical slant. Though attempts were made to determine its depth by plumbing lines, which found ground at no more than beneath the sea floor, the trench's true depths were unknown.

History
Circa -10400 DR, a triton architect known as Vodos swam into the Trench of Lopok and was never seen again.

In, the First Serôs War ended with the fall of a major sahuagin kingdom within this trench.

In, krakens emerged from this trench and wrecked the Numosi and Jhimari schools of the Dukars.

In, Coronal Essyl of Aryselmalyr sent agents on an expedition into the Trench of Lopok. They came back alongside three fiendish kraken servants of Dagon, who carried an artifact known as the Emerald Eye.

In, Vaequiis of Aryselmalyr launched the Fifth Serôs War against the shalarin kingdom of Es'krin and formed an alliance with a pair of krakens from the trench, Borapalys and Rylurkarth.

Around the late 1360's DR, the kraken Slarkrethel was having members of his organization the Kraken Society construct a krakengate within the trench.

Inhabitants
Clustered around the upper cliffs of this trench were three triton kingdoms were clustered around the entrance to this trench - the Ahlors, Pumana, and Vuuvax Protectorates. The Ahlors Protectorate rested directly on its eastern cliff edge, with its central capital resting on its southeastern edge. These three protectorates worked collectively to guard the trench from those who sought to it and the evils that sought to escape it. Referring to the latter threat as "Those Who Sleep Below."

The two species that were known for certain to dwell within its depths were krakens and morkoths. Prior to the First Serôs War, a kingdom of sahuagin also lived within its depths.

Rumors & Legends
It was alleged that morkoth and kuo-toa first arose from this trench. This lead some to speculate the existence of dark gods dwelling within the trench's depths.

The early morkoth theocracies within Serôs believed that their gods slept within its depths and that only fervent prayer could one day awaken them. Later legends claimed that Xamarx, a monarch of the morkoth theocracy Olleth who died in, was still alive within this trench as some lich-like form.