The Roc could tell a man from a piece of wood or a fish a thousand yards away. It was a large part of the work he was trained to do, locating and rescuing those whose ships had been lost at sea. His eyes sharper than those of the Elf, he had spotted the man in the water before Hunter and shifted course to effect a rescue. Obsidian was already banking smoothly toward the castaway, not needing the touch of his master’s hands and knees to know what to do.
It was the odd rolling movement of his body within the gentle swells, in fact, that first caught Hunter Predd’s eye. He was so still it was impossible to tell if he was alive. His skin was burned and ravaged from sun, wind, and weather, and his clothing was in tatters. The man was draped over the length of wood as if a cloth doll, his head laid on the spar so that his face was barely out of the water, one arm wrapped loosely about his narrow float to keep him from sliding away. Otherwise, rivers just combine and combine, flowing into a bigger and bigger single stream.Hunter Predd was patrolling the waters of the Blue Divide north of the island of Mesca Rho, a Wing Hove outpost at the western edge of Elven territorial waters, when he saw the man clinging to the spar. The only time a river forks when heading downstream is at a delta, where the body of water it's flowing into "backs up" the river and forces it to find multiple channels. Some end their lives in inland seas, like the Caspian or Aral seas on Earth, where the excess water simply evaporates over time.īut in the map above, you've got rivers going, essentially, in circles. Rivers that start in mountains and end in the ocean are quite common. They go from highlands to lowlands to the sea. You must always try to have a clear direction of flow when laying down your rivers. I'm not a member of the River Police-not yet, anyway-but they're going to flag you for multiple violations, especially on the "Four Lands" map.
These maps are a good beginning is right about the snowcaps - they are quite distracting when situated next to bare mountains that are clearly taller.
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