Buranuna River

the River at the Center of Civilization

The river known as Buranuna runs through the center of the Craddle Valley of Anbar, on the major continent of Ethae. It begins at Lake Sumer at the south end of the valley, flowing north until it reaches Kiengir Bay of the Codi Sea in the north. The river has been the lifeforce of Craddle Valley since antiquity, especially during the long history of Ancient Siduum. While the river twists and turns naturally through the land, thousands of years of occupation by Human, from the early Cadalhun people, to the Siduumites, to the modern Sidobians, has created something of a sculpting of the river. In the modern-day ruins dot the shoreline, artificial stone banks line these places. In many places artificial islands stretch through the rivers center for miles, once guiding the flow of ancient traffic up and down the highway of Ancient Siduum.

In the modern day, Buranuna is much more natural than its past self. Many of the artificial banks and waters ways of the ancient stand miles away from the river, long forgotten and half buried. The fall of Ancient Siduum to the Umaybbad Orc, and the shift of continental power north into Novyum, left a crumbling infrastructure of the once great nation. The modern nations Mysobia centers its culture around the river, will farms lining the waters. It is a river that flows from natural channels into artificial canals, with modern settlements built on top the ruins of the ancients. A crew on a merchant boat might look out past the shores on their travel to see an ancient ruin that has not been touched by humans in centuries. Such is life in Craddle Valley, new built around ancient, and Buranuna, as it has always been, reflects and shapes the valley it calls home.