The Bay of Blood is a bay on the coast of Tortuga, in the part touching Haiti, whose water is reddish. It holds, or opens onto, Kraken’s Cove, and serves the region as a landmark.
| Type | Place (bay) |
| Spanish entry | Bahía de la Sangre |
Description
It is called “of Blood”, “and truly the water is reddish”. Its coast, bottom and swell are not described.
“In the Bay of Blood, look at this, there is a thing called Kraken’s Cove.” Whether the bay contains the cove or the cove opens onto it is not fixed; that the cove is there for the bay’s shelter is only conjecture.
Role
The bay is a public place-name used for orientation: people “are in the Bay of Blood”, and there is talk of what lies “beyond the Bay of Blood”. No danger, law, toll, flag, population or faction is tied to it.
Other “bloods”
Three other regional names carry “blood”; none is known to touch the bay:
- The Blood War, an “old story” that certain mages are said to be replaying against others.
- The blood of the host, which looks “sort of like mercury”, escapes the room “through that little hole” and “marks an Ariadne’s thread of where they have to go”.
- The blood contract, a pact that obliges killing: “I cannot negotiate the lives of 38 girls”; “The 39 must be prevented from arriving.”
Open questions
- Why the water is red (mineral, sediment or an old episode), and whether name or color came first.
- The bay’s size, ports and settlements, and who rules or patrols it.
- Where exactly Kraken’s Cove opens.
- What waits “beyond the Bay of Blood”.
- Whether the Blood War and the bay share more than the word.