This river is the primary source of water for the Spellscar Desert, flowing east into the Obari Ocean. Once occupying a wide riverbed, the river is now unreliable. In the late summer through the fall, long stretches of the river dry up, leaving large sections of marshy sand between worn boulders. These sections function as quicksand (Core Rulebook 526). Where water remains, it becomes stagnant until the river flows again. Creatures and wasteland gangs jealously guard this water. Even in late winter and early spring, the river is generally low and difficult to traverse except in a canoe or on a barge. The water’s color, for the sections and seasons that see a steady flow, is a curious turquoise due to strange minerals leached from the worn boulders along the river’s length. Rumors hold that these boulders are leftover ammunition from a skirmish along the long border between Nex and Geb—though it’s unclear which side launched the boulders or what the minerals imbuing the stony ammunition were intended to do.
