Re: Creekstream River in EWF

From: Roderick and Ellen Robertson <rjremr_at_...>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 14:36:59 -0700


> I was looking at trying to do a map of Dragon Pass and Holy Country
> in the time of the EWF. Anyway I was looking at the notes in King of
> Sartar on the geography of the EWF and in particular the trip up the
> Creekstream river (P 181). It implies here that the Creekstream River
> under the EWF went all the way down to Karst. If you look at maps of
> the area in 1620 then the Creekstream stops above the Shadow Plateau
> and a different river flows down to Karst. This means that the flow
> must have changed since the fall of the Empire. Any ideas how or why
> it changed ? My only clue was the silting up of the River around
> Delecti's marsh - is this the reason - or something else ?

The CSR was diverted when Belintar killed a monster that the Only Old One sent after him - this formed the Lead Hills. Belintar later dug the New River around the north of the Shadow Plateau. This happened in the 1320s or so.

I made a map of DP during the EWF - it's up on the List yahoo site.

RR
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