Iliarth River

The Iliarth is the primary river that runs through the Utraean Peninsula, from its source beyond the Great Northern Forest down to its termini in Hiroth and the Endless Dunes. It is presumably named after the Stellar Imperial capital of Iliyara. Due to how Dungeon Siege's environmental physics work, it does not work like a real river, and does not have a traditional drainage basin.
== The river's course ==
=== Great Northern Forest ===
The river begins in and snakes its way south through the Great Northern Forest, breaking into a number of forks. Most of these diversions both occur and end up in the forest's southeast, draining either into the forest's deep ravine lake or into impassable walls. 
After a general southeast heading, and splitting into another fork, the river abruptly turns west in the vicinity of Loola's towers and the ravine. From here the river passes underneath the peak holding one of the three entrances to Hovart's Folly, where the prior fork reconnects.
Beyond Hovart's Folly, it splits into yet another fork, which eventually goes far west and ends up in the Elddim Lowlands, while the main course of the river passes into Elddim itself.
=== Elddim and the Iliarth Basin ===
The river runs south through Elddim before turning east between the Golden Mug Inn and Zabar's Smithy, falling in a cascade to a deep gorge after passing the HUB platform. The river gradually progresses southeast through this gorge before it dumps into Iliarth Valley which it carved over the millennia. Once in the flat bottom of Iliarth Valley, it makes a big meandering turn to the northeast, passing by the lake country, before falling into another deep gorge, the Iliarth Divide. 
Once in the Divide, the river turns north for some time before heading generally eastward again. When the climate warms and the grass turns yellow, the river turns south and is joined by another river in a series of waterfalls. After this it meanders in a generally southwest direction before leveling out and going straight east into Iliarth Canyon.
=== Droog Territory ===
Though the upper levels of Iliarth Canyon are dominated by the undead remains of the 2nd Legion, the riverbanks are ruled by the Droog. The river cuts through a long westbound course, repositioning itself slightly further north before repositioning south again as it goes west into the wider part of the canyon where the Droog-occupied castle lies. 
It turns north at the castle and then turns west once more, meandering through the mesas of the Quillrabe Canyons until it makes a large southward turn at the town of Quillrabe, running along the town's outer wall before it disappears into a tunnel.
=== Termini? ===
The river, or at least a branch of it, can be seen flowing into Lake Hiroth within the town itself, via Hiroth Ravine.
Another possibility is that it pools beneath the Mesa Desert; a river can be found flowing there, and a nearby natural basin holds much water.
Perhaps it's a mixture of the two; with the river going to the desert from Quillrabe before turning back toward Hiroth.Category:Locations in the Utraean Peninsula
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