Lake Sumer

the Life of the Craddle

The oldest recorded lake whose location can be verified; Lake Sumer sits on the southern end of Craddle Valley on the major continent of Ethae. It is a relatively shallow lake, ranging between 25 feet deep in the west and 35 feet deep in its deep's parts on the east side of the lake. The lake's water sources have been a mystery over the ages. Along with a few small rivers, seasonal streams feed it from mountain runoff, but the estimated inflow does not seem to equal what is needed to maintain the volume of water within the lake, especially consider twice the level flowing in, flows out to the north with the Buranuna River. Some of the primary theories of its volume are underwater springs below the surface, or high water tables bleeding into the lake. There are even outlandish ideas of magic portals pouring water in.

Lake Sumer, as stated above, has been documented throughout history. Settlements have been around the lake since the prehistoric periods, the first of which being built by the Cadalhun tribe of Valan, if Siduumites myth is to be believed.. Through the long history of Ancient Siduum, Sumer was at times the most populated region, the capital lands of the nations, at other times little more than a rural farmland, and still others, abandoned all together. In the modern day it is little more than a stop on the trade routes through the desert. The last watering hole of Mysobia before travelers head south into the dry desert mountains leading into Hydossia.