Ilanos River

Fed by hundreds of small streams from the Ágaç Hills and the smaller Çayusk River, the Ilanos River is the heart of the Principality of Pelshtaria. More people live in the vast grasslands of the Isthmus of Irkaina and the Pelshtarian Peninsula farther east, but the citizens of the Ilanos valley are far more concentrated. Here, urban life has developed, and the princes who have ruled the land have always had their capital at the mouth of the river.
The Ilanos itself is a slow but wide and deep run, languid in its course, and rarely overflows its banks even during the spring rains. This allows river barges to make their way from the interior to the sea to bring wool and grain to Irith Kel. The river’s passage has cut a deep valley into the hills, and there are many places where the bluffs are too steep to get a goat down. The feeding streams tend to run off the high hills in wondrous cascades. Where the river can be reached, small towns have developed. The principality’s troops regularly patrol the valley, and the Ilanos and the hills it passes through are some of the safest parts of the realm.

Type

River