Lazy River: History and Rumors

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The Lazy River has its beginnings as a huge number of brooks, streams and rivulets formed in the area of the Forest of Cover. These tributaries amble their way towards Lake Summit and flow rapidly into that deep lake. After water spills over its southern edge from a towering waterfall a hundred feet high, it meanders its way south and descends in a series of steps and plateaus, through extensive rapids, waterfalls and flat water ranges before spreading out across a mile wide delta and tumbling into the seas off southern Girrac.

The sight of the waters plunging the remaining sixty feet off the island's edge into the ocean below is spectacular. Heavy water mists often drift over this area of the sea or back over the island and the churning waters can create vast banks of fog and mist that spread far out into the sea or hang heavily in the air, concealing the southeastern region of the island. By comparison, the river's northern branch is a lot smaller and less spectacular as it ends in a small waterfall and drains into the sea to the north.

Along its entire length, the Lazy River provides the life blood for the island and for thousands of species of creatures that have depended on its flow since time began.