The Great Northern Lake
In the
northern reaches of the Lands are covered by an enormous Lake, more of
a freshwater ocean than a lake really, a thousand or more miles across.
The Great Lake is bordered on the West by rolling grasslands, the south
by low dry hills and some swampland to the southeast, and on the far east
a huge sheet of ice drops icebergs into the
water to float away and melt. There are few scattered islands in the lake,
at least two of them large enough to be habitable, but no one really lives
there, as far as we know. The Lake is fairly calm for the most part, often
rainy but rarely storming. The waves are mostly mild and often quite still,
and the shores of the Lake are usually shrouded in fog. The Lake and all
lands of the north are ruled bye Rain,
the Elemental of Water, and
her presence can be felt in the quiet sadness and lonely silence of this
land. It would be quite easy to sail this ocean of a Lake, and the abundant
supply of fresh water would only make it easier, but as far as we know
no one has. To the west the Lake is fed by an enormous River, whose headwaters
lie far in the Mountains of the South, and
which flows through the most of the Great Forest of the west before curving
gently eastwards across the grassy plains to end at the Lake.