A shallow body of water on the southeastern edge of the Glass Wastes. The bay is very sheltered, and tides enter primarily through an underwater channel, so that the surface is rarely disturbed. An enormous quantity of smooth, transparent organisms live on the surface, packed together so that they strongly resembling a giant onionskin.
On October 5 naturalist Eland the Younger first described this peculiar ecology. Eland was unable to classify the organisms, and a massive storm dramatically changed the ecology of the bay before modern science could describe it. There is speculation that they were some form of communal jellyfish, although some believe they were a now-extinct species of soft-bodied coral. Marine biologists occasionally get very excited over new species and believe that they have found the Swollen Bay Organism, but so far no consensus has been reached.