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home | contents | previous | next | index Chapter 5 - The Eastern RiverDuring an otherwise uneventful discussion of the Laughing River (AKA the Shallow River, AKA the Eastern River), Steve surprised me with The Eastern River is actually the *westernmost* of the major Rivers, it is not another name for the Laughing River. The Eastern River does flow North South, passing about a hundred miles east of Hartre before continuing to the ocean, about five hundred miles west (and a little south) of Adrilankha. There are numerous references to "the Eastern River" in the text, but none of them refer to a river that is west of Adrilankha. I asked Steve how this could be, and he replied, There is the "Eastern River" which flows pretty much due north south and is west of Adrilankha. Then there is the Laughing River, which sounds like the one you're talking about, and which is often called the Eastern River as it is the River that parallels the Eastern Mountains. To my knowledge, the river properly known as the Eastern River is not mentioned in any of the novels. To avoid confusion as much as possible, if I refer to the "Eastern River" in this document outside of a quote, I will be discussing this westernmost river. I will refer to the river that parallels the Eastern Mountains as the "Laughing River".
In one of his emails while I was working on Release 2, Steve told me the Eastern River actually flows under the Grand Canal: The Eastern River passes through a valley, going south, at a point where the Grand Canal, going east-west, goes over what is essentially a river bridge (still standing at the time of the Vlad novels) made of granite, giving the strange appearance of rivers crossing each other. His map confirms this. home | contents | previous | next | index Questions? Comments? Please contact me at dragaera [at] bryann.net. Copyright © 2020 Bryan Newell, unless otherwise noted. |