> > Hi folks, hoping to tap people's collective knowledge, though not for
> magic
> > points. I've been trying to understand the Syphon River as at different
> > times its uphill path is described as either chaotic or because it didn't
> > change direction when Magasta tried to plug the hole left by the spike.
> I'm
> > wondering if there is anything canonical on this front.
>
> The Orlanthi of Heortland have always held the Syphon to be an evil river.
> They say it was cursed by Magasta. The Print is known to be a Chaos lair by
> the Orlanthi.
>
Thanks for that. I suppose my confusion comes with what impact this has. The Orlanthi seem to have settled quite happily along the river and forded it yet if they regard it as an evil or cursed river then what impact does that have in every day life? E.g. do some poor benighted folk find themselves giving propitiatory worship to it? Is it actively evil (stealing young babies, howling in the night, spooky mists) or does it feel just like a normal river only running uphill? Naturally there's a large element of YGWV here but it would be good to know what the collective thinks.
Out of interest, what was the reason for the curse and is the myth of rivers changing direction to plug the gap a one that's common among Orlanthi folk?
I'll check out history of the Heortling people later (it's back home) but I don't remember much about the Syphon in it. BTW, I was pretty sure that the missing footprint was just one of Mongoose's map failures but thought it worth checking.
Cheers
Bruce
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