Pow River
The long south-western artery of the green country, winding through the wettest forest in the world to join Ooliel's Blood Place Ooliel's Blood The great river of the Land of Green Shadows, the dark mother-water into which nearly every stream of the green country empties. near the coast. Sixty-nine turns of it are charted; the river peoples say the chart flatters itself.
Key traits
- The longest charted tributary of Ooliel's Blood, looping through deep swamp-forest.
- Flood-forest for whole seasons: villages on its banks are stilted, boated, and patient.
- The old cities of Gakufa Place Gakufa The upper-Pow city, farthest into the wet south-west, where the forest is oldest and the light arrives pre-owned. and Ensoora Place Ensoora A deep-forest city of the Pow basin, ringed by flood-meres and reachable in the wet season only by water. stood in its wider basin in AC 50.