Grasping River
"The river looks calm, but don't let it fool you. They call it the Grasping River because sometimes for no good reason it'll reach up and snag you, pulling you down farther than anyone will ever dive to get you out."
~Grassgrove Laughingpelt, deputy in Alcedene
Geography
The Grasping River runs south from the Rockspine Sea. It splits 126 miles south of its source. The East Grasping River travels all the way down to the Wupan Sea. The West Grasping River Bisects the Foothills completely, where it eventually terminates in a tight spiral that ends at the Blackspiral Hexamid. It has a few shallows where crossing is safe, and several bridges have been constructed over it at important places. The river delta is only around eight to twenty feet in most places, no more than triple that where it carves through a hill in places and no shallower than half. A few places, the waters can run unimaginably deep; potentially miles. The riversides are mostly sand or mud.
Scattered through the entire length of the river, deep sinkholes dot the bottom. These open and close often, so no map of them is possible. Where a sinkhole exists, a powerful whirlpool or eddy forms and drags anything caught in it to the bottom of the hole. The shallowest of these holes is thirty feet deep, and the deepest to have been explored was almost eighty, with others going deeper but would-be explorers are unable to travel that deep safely even with precautions. It's these sinkholes and their currents that give the river its name.
Additionally, the river is host to gelrimes that open and close regularly, adding random blasts of current and pumping freshwater into the mix earlier than would otherwise be natural.
Fauna & Flora
The Grasping River is home to a large population of fish, crustaceans, and mussels. Amphibians ranging from small salamanders to Giant Frogs line the banks, and all sorts of waterfowl ply the waters.
Natural Resources
Aside from the plentiful food offered by the river in the form of trout, river lobsters, and catfish, the mussels also provide a small industry of river pearls for local adventurous divers.
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Krezzym
The city of Krezzym, built on the fork of the Grasping River and home of the final resting place of Barokaz.
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