![]() ![]() The canals make for easy division, cutting the city into quarter sectors surrounding our central temples. ![]() No nymph lord could resist, and so here we stay, drawing our strength and safety from the waters. All the way from the Hud in the north to the disputed borders along the Great River in the west and the Ohius in the south. From Detraon, over both natural and nymph-made waterways, we can quickly reach almost every corner of our kingdom. When the waters receded, the land here was still the perfect spot for our capital, sitting well beside Lake Eris, with easy access to Lake Neron through a short strait, and the rest of the lakes beyond. Rust-eaten iron dust turns the earth red to this day, and magnetrons harvest those stretches like farmers do wheat. There are still massive fields of debris downriver, choked with the rotted ruins of another time. The ancient city that used to sit here is no more, washed away by floods more than a thousand years ago. I shut my eyes and remember Father as he was.ĭetraon is a city of canals, nymph-cut into the bedrock on the western edge of Clear Bay. It flashes on the surface, blinding me for a moment. Dawn breaks to my left, the sun rising over the low hills. Even in the shallows, the water distorts his face. Using our own muscles and the weight of our current to sink the body. We push, lowering the board with our hands and our ability. If I am alive when Maven dies, will I be permitted to burn his corpse? ![]()
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