the Salt Lakes of Jianki
rich, wet, and difficult
Where the two nations of Edio and Seodao meet, along the north of the Danshou Sea, lie the vast and unpredictable Salk Lakes of Jianki.
They are thousands of square miles of rivers, marshes and lakes of wildly differing size, depth, and makeup. Their brackish waters are rich in life and dangers of all kinds. The spread of the many lakes and rivers is so vast that species thriving in the southern reaches of the lakes might be totally alien and unfit to live in the northern parts.
Geography
One of the more interesting oddities of the region has only been recently noted by scholars of the Zhoyaala of Antiquity. The region is also growing and expanding, and has been for centuries. Stories of farms and even whole villages needing to be abandoned to rising tide waters have increased in recent decades. Ancient records dating back to the age of exploration and expansion in the late 200s, show that not only were the lakes smaller then, there were fewer of them and did not reach as far north.
As impossible as it seems, the overall average water level of the region has increased noticeably over the last six hundred years. The effect has even been corroborated in other regions along the eastern coasts, but the incredibly flat and low lands, already pock marked and eroted by the vast weekly tides, seem to highlight the fact that sea levels all around Yatan'aa, and presumably all of Tamrakaaz have been very slowly and slightly going up for hundreds of years.
The effective expansion of the Salt Lakes of Jianki seems to have slowed in recent decades, but only because their edges have reached the higher ground that rises to the foothils of the small mountain ranges to the north, east, and west.
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