5th land · Spiral from tier 21
Defiled Shore
The surf casts onto the rocks what should have drowned. The land of those who have already walked half the road.
Lands
The shore is the boundary of mid-road. The surf casts onto the rocks what should have drowned, and it is peopled by the drowned doubles of earlier creatures: the same shape under cold water.
The Salt Lighthouse is held by the Tide Lord, and there is no way past him: the road into the Heart of the Blight runs through a fallen Lord. In the Drowned Crypt the Drowned Choir sings.
The Endless Spiral enters this layer from tier 21.
The same article in Russian — русская версия — carries the game’s own lines word for word.