Chapter 10 - Elde Island

[Elde Island] can be found some twenty-five miles off the coast to the southwest ... some seventeen hundred square miles of rich, fertile plain in the central and southeastern area; rocky coastline to make fishing a challenge to the east, and a few modest mountains ... across the neck of the northern "staffhead", which effectively makes the northernmost section its own country ... this northern region, about two hundred miles across and ninety or ninety-five miles from the mountains to the coast, has only two cities ... the first ... is the port of Salute ... the other city is called Kripna ... placed at the inner bend of a river (named Cideen...) that runs from the mountains to Salute ... the clams and culls of the northern coast of Elde (or the southern coast of the Empire) are justly famed, the longfish from the Cideen have a reputation extending across the channel ... an inn [the Silver Goblet], some ten or twelve miles from Kripna

Before dark that night they had embarked across toward the mainland [from Salute] ... by the ... morning ... they had already reached a small natural harbor, which has no name that we know of, but is found some twenty or twenty-five miles southeast of Ridgly; which is to say, at one of the nearest places to Salute upon which to make landfall. They were met there by a wagon ... It is full night, and I should prefer travel by day; hence we will rest at the Cliffside, which is not five miles from here ... They arrived within a few hours, and there passed the remainder of the night, as well as ... several hours the next day, after which they made their way further up the coast, stopping next ... at the town of Merinna ... we at last leave the coast, and make our way inland to meet with [Kana] ... where are we going .... Hartre, or, rather, a small village not far from Hartre ... that is a tolerably long journey ... They spent that evening at a run-down hostelry on the road ... and the next day they continued on the road.