anyways here is some progress on recreating the first sea in the style of AO (these are imgur albums because the forum ran out of image upload space again (i think))
one suggstion is to make the first two islands a bit bigger with mroe spaces and detail, and the last one to look more like an abandoned fort like whispering caverns, if thats what you were going for.
It’s just a random staircase found in the sea that is also permanently accompanied by whirlpools that physically cannot exist due to a lack of opposing currents/drains.