Lake Likith
Warmed by submarine hot springs this lake provided a bonanza of fish and fowl year round.
Geography
Lake Likith is a large freshwater lake, that is roughly 60 miles long, 40 miles wide, and averaging 490 feet deep with a maximum depth of 925 feet. The lake sits on the eastern boundary of Ethfamen and is fed by submarine hot springs that keep the water temperature fairly stable, and the depth mostly consistent. The springs also give a slight Sulphur taste and smell to the water, though most of the inhabitants along the shore are used to it. Three communities, Lehnel in the north, Wuthtebahm in the south and Etnohadh in the south east are supported by the array of marine life that can be harvested from the lake. The entire lake excepting for the Likith Swamp on the eastern shore are claimed by Ethfamen.
Fauna & Flora
There are more than 250 species of fishes found in Lake Likith including bluegill, brook trout, freshwater drum, gar, lake sturgeon, lake trout, lake whitefish, northern pike, rock bass, walleye, white perch, yellow perch, and many others. Native mammals include the black bear, fox, elk, white-tailed deer, moose, beaver, river otter, coyote, gray wolf, lynx, and many others. Bird species native to the lake include herring gulls, whooping cranes, snowy owls, wood ducks, great blue herons, golden eagles, piping plovers, and much more. Reptiles found there include crocodile, dwarf caiman, lizards, venomous snakes and turtles including the snapping turtle.
Some of the animals that inhabit the lake include:
• Lake whitefish - The lake whitefish is a species of freshwater fish that belongs to the salmon family. Lake whitefish are a valuable commercial species. Lake whitefish feed on bottom-dwelling invertebrates such as snails, clams, and the aquatic larvae of insects.
• Walleye - The walleye is a large freshwater fish native to the lake.
• Yellow perch - The yellow perch is a species of perch. Adult yellow perch feed on aquatic insect larvae, crustaceans, mysid shrimp, fish eggs, and small fish.
• Great blue heron - The great blue heron is a large wading bird common to freshwater wetland habitats throughout the Frontier lands, including Lake Likith. Great blue herons have a long, sharp bill that they use to capture a variety of small prey animals such as fish, crustaceans, insects, rodents, amphibians, reptiles, and birds.
• Lynx - The lynx is a medium-sized cat that inhabits the forests throughout the Frontier lands. Lynxes are secretive, nocturnal mammals that feed on snowshoe hares, rodents, and birds.
• Moose - The moose is the largest living member of the deer family. Moose inhabit the forests that border the eastern shores of the Lake Likith. Moose are herbivores that feed on a variety of herbaceous plants and grasses.
• Common snapping turtle - The common snapping turtle is a widespread turtle that inhabits freshwater wetlands east of the Tågbaf Mountains, including the Lake Likith region. Snapping turtles have a reputation for being quite aggressive.
• Bullfrog - The bullfrog is a large frog that occurs in wetlands in the Lake Likith region. Bullfrogs are predators that feed on small mammals, reptiles, and invertebrates.
Plant life includes, but is not limited to, white waterlilly, pitcher plant, arrowhead, black spruce, cattail, cotton grass, dragon's mouth orchid, seedbox, tamarack, pye weed, lady's slipper orchid, marsh marigold, holly, monkey flower, sundew, tail-beak rush, buckbean, marsh-wort, bog rosemary bulrush, marsh bell-flower, blue-joint grass, meadowsweet and meadow willow, grow there as well.
Among the more dangerous, and non-mundane denizens of the lake are aboleth, ankou, basilisk, belostomatid, boruta, elder thing, emkrah, fire beetle, freshwater merrow, gargoyle, giant amoeba, giant ant, giant gar, giant hellgrammite, giant lake octopus, giant nymph dragonfly, giant snapping turtle, giant spider, hippocampus, kelpie, lamia matriarch, larabay, living topiary, lurker in light, mi-go, mimic, mindslaver mold, moonflower, neh-thalggu, nereid, peryton, redcap, sandpoint devil, scarlet spider, skin stealer, soucouyant, spawning canker, spring-heeled jack, tear of nuruu’gal, thrasfyr, and xtabay
Some of the animals that inhabit the lake include:
• Lake whitefish - The lake whitefish is a species of freshwater fish that belongs to the salmon family. Lake whitefish are a valuable commercial species. Lake whitefish feed on bottom-dwelling invertebrates such as snails, clams, and the aquatic larvae of insects.
• Walleye - The walleye is a large freshwater fish native to the lake.
• Yellow perch - The yellow perch is a species of perch. Adult yellow perch feed on aquatic insect larvae, crustaceans, mysid shrimp, fish eggs, and small fish.
• Great blue heron - The great blue heron is a large wading bird common to freshwater wetland habitats throughout the Frontier lands, including Lake Likith. Great blue herons have a long, sharp bill that they use to capture a variety of small prey animals such as fish, crustaceans, insects, rodents, amphibians, reptiles, and birds.
• Lynx - The lynx is a medium-sized cat that inhabits the forests throughout the Frontier lands. Lynxes are secretive, nocturnal mammals that feed on snowshoe hares, rodents, and birds.
• Moose - The moose is the largest living member of the deer family. Moose inhabit the forests that border the eastern shores of the Lake Likith. Moose are herbivores that feed on a variety of herbaceous plants and grasses.
• Common snapping turtle - The common snapping turtle is a widespread turtle that inhabits freshwater wetlands east of the Tågbaf Mountains, including the Lake Likith region. Snapping turtles have a reputation for being quite aggressive.
• Bullfrog - The bullfrog is a large frog that occurs in wetlands in the Lake Likith region. Bullfrogs are predators that feed on small mammals, reptiles, and invertebrates.
Plant life includes, but is not limited to, white waterlilly, pitcher plant, arrowhead, black spruce, cattail, cotton grass, dragon's mouth orchid, seedbox, tamarack, pye weed, lady's slipper orchid, marsh marigold, holly, monkey flower, sundew, tail-beak rush, buckbean, marsh-wort, bog rosemary bulrush, marsh bell-flower, blue-joint grass, meadowsweet and meadow willow, grow there as well.
Among the more dangerous, and non-mundane denizens of the lake are aboleth, ankou, basilisk, belostomatid, boruta, elder thing, emkrah, fire beetle, freshwater merrow, gargoyle, giant amoeba, giant ant, giant gar, giant hellgrammite, giant lake octopus, giant nymph dragonfly, giant snapping turtle, giant spider, hippocampus, kelpie, lamia matriarch, larabay, living topiary, lurker in light, mi-go, mimic, mindslaver mold, moonflower, neh-thalggu, nereid, peryton, redcap, sandpoint devil, scarlet spider, skin stealer, soucouyant, spawning canker, spring-heeled jack, tear of nuruu’gal, thrasfyr, and xtabay
Natural Resources
Apart from the abundance of slightly sulphury fresh water and the vast array of marine life. There are no resources of note in Lake Likith
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