Post by Trippy Hare on May 4, 2006 21:18:27 GMT -5
Although there are countless smaller brooks, creeks, and tributaries, the river Alamy is the largest flowing body of water in Eshathar, running down from the Doshor Irethe range, through the Gargassun plains, the immense forest of Ivorsherlet, and eventually draining into the Moonpoole. It's banks divide the central supracontinent almost perfectly in half, and it flows through many of the major population centers of various peoples.
This is no accident: many city-states were built along the banks of the river for logistic and strategic reasons. Many of these cities still exist in one form or another.
The river itself is almost always calm, making it's banks ideal for picnics, fishing, swimming, or any other manner of recreation. It houses multitudes of aquatic life, such as fish, crustaceans, and various plants. Its width varies, from a mere few feet across near Failewyn to over a mile wide through Ivorsherlet.
But there is one place in particular where the Alamy is more of a threat than a blessing: Erchaea. Like the land on which the cursed city sits, the river Alamy is a blighted, corrupt version of itself as it winds through the ruins. The filth of burning bodies and the toxic chemicals of rotting corpses and war machines is so thick that the normally quick current of the Alamy slow to a crawl. A thick coat of slime covers the river in Erchaea, riding atop the water like a primordial predator.
Even with all the filth and pollution the water accumulates through Erchaea, by the time it empties into the Moonpoole ( a mere 50 or so miles away), the Alamy's waters run crystal clear once again. Failewyn Mage-Scholars believe that the Alamy is an entity unto itself, and uses potent, and ancient, magics to heal its own injuries before it empties into the Moonpoole, and beyond that, the sea.
This is no accident: many city-states were built along the banks of the river for logistic and strategic reasons. Many of these cities still exist in one form or another.
The river itself is almost always calm, making it's banks ideal for picnics, fishing, swimming, or any other manner of recreation. It houses multitudes of aquatic life, such as fish, crustaceans, and various plants. Its width varies, from a mere few feet across near Failewyn to over a mile wide through Ivorsherlet.
But there is one place in particular where the Alamy is more of a threat than a blessing: Erchaea. Like the land on which the cursed city sits, the river Alamy is a blighted, corrupt version of itself as it winds through the ruins. The filth of burning bodies and the toxic chemicals of rotting corpses and war machines is so thick that the normally quick current of the Alamy slow to a crawl. A thick coat of slime covers the river in Erchaea, riding atop the water like a primordial predator.
Even with all the filth and pollution the water accumulates through Erchaea, by the time it empties into the Moonpoole ( a mere 50 or so miles away), the Alamy's waters run crystal clear once again. Failewyn Mage-Scholars believe that the Alamy is an entity unto itself, and uses potent, and ancient, magics to heal its own injuries before it empties into the Moonpoole, and beyond that, the sea.