Weeping Gates

Two paths stand before anyone who wishes to go to the top of the Thurangura waterfalls. They can brave the mushroom forest (only advisable for people stacked with silence spells), or they can traverse the weeping gates (which are safer, most of the time).

The weeping gates are a long canyon that slowly ascends to the top of the plateau where the Thurangura waterfalls begin.

by Nicolas Vollmer

When the waters of the waterfall receded and start flowing upwards towards the sky, the pull from the sky is not enough to carry upwards all of the water and some spills through the plateau until it finds the canyon. This monthly flooding is what gave it the "weeping" name. The gates are thus never used by locals any time when they think the sky may open up and start swallowing the waters.
Despite the constant flowing of water down the river and the occasional sucking of the water into the sky, the Thurangura waterfalls never seem to dry. Yet, everything above them in the plateau is dry, old, and weathered.
Much further inland, on the rainforests at the centre of Oceasile, the real beginning of Candle River can still be found, forgotten to many and the reasons the rainforest was bisected in two forever, a large part of the continent doomed to not see a drop of water.

Location

At the magical end of the Candle River

Passage time

Walking through the gates takes anywhere from 4 to eight hours depending on a creature's walking speed and on their luck avoiding the creatures that roam the area

by Yu Yiming