The Wastelands (or as the Praxians call them, the Greatlands) have many
valleys and riverbeds that generally go towards a dry central crevice. Some
of these are the exposed graves of the rivers of Genert's Garden. Some of
them are where monsters were dragged along by Praxian heros and giants.
Some of them are where good spirits rose out of the dirt and exposed water.
Some are enemy monstrous serpents that are hidden underneath there and that
rise up accompanied by hosts of creatures, springing to life when rains
fall instead of sand, or when invading storm gods (Orlanth from the south,
Valind from the north) hire mercenaries to plague the Praxians and so send
the rivers roaring.
Any of these causes often cause the river to flow uphill, at least for a
while. Not always, and perhaps not even most of the time, but often enough
to be a known random feature of these spirit beings. And as the ultimate of
such back flooding, at times the Ultraserpent (that may be Korgatsu) comes
bursting forth from the Underworld, filling up the Dead Bottom and sending
fifty foot waves roaring up the serpents, spilling over the banks, and
eddying up even the smaller arroyos (or wadis).
At times these flooded riverbanks become tangled growths of plants from the
Garden, where live long-lost peoples, often hsunchen of living or extinct
creatures. When the waters recede the plants die quickly, the people
usually soon after.
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