Lake Aur

Lake Aur is the final lake in the chain that became the Channel Lakes. The River of Gold flows into it from the north, and from here the River of Gold Locks complete the link to the Great Ocean Ûthaf. It was named after the gold that was discovered in its northern end by engineers surveying prior to dredging the river from Lake Cordona. Apparently, tiny bits of gold had been carried by streams flowing from the Zorinos Mountains, probably for centuries, and much of it precipitated out of the water to the bottom of Lake Aur. This led to a big recovery effort before any more work was done on the channel system, which involved hundreds of people digging and washing to separate out the bits of gold. Now some prospectors pan for gold directly in the mountain streams, but it is not a large enterprise as much of the free gold seems to have been collected already.
A few small communities lie on the northeast edge of the lake between the two sections of the River of Gold, because the land is generally good and some fish are available. Lying as it does at the far end of the Channel Lakes, though, the population has expanded very slowly in the past 20 years, and no nobles have ever been granted land to establish haciendas in this area.

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Lake