Perlinkook River
From its sorrowful source at the Drowned Lake, high in the Dreuthekon Mountains, the Perlinkook winds its way between two massive ridges, its icy blue waters rushing westward until they slow beneath the endless pines of the Great Snowy Forest and finally empty into the seemingly bottomless Gulf of Kharl. Along the way countless creatures great and small make the river and its banks their home. Pods of dolphins winter in the bends and twists found near its mouth, the river warmer by several measures than the open water of the mouth. Otters and osprey ply their trade year-round, taking advantage of seemingly endless bounty of fishes that make their homes in the slower moving waters of the forest and each summer shoals of salmon take the arduous journey upstream to their spawning grounds, their journey fattening up the great bears squat in the shallows. Further east, as the waters become icier with elevation, it is said that little lives in the river. Legends state that the water itself is like poison for the soul as the sorrows and horrors of battles millennia ago still haunt them, damning any who drink it to dreams of torment that lead to madness and, invariably, an untimely death.
Autumn Along the Perlinkook River
Type
River
Location under