Beartoggle River

The **Beartoggle River** is one of the six major water courses that gave Six Rivers it's name. It's located in the south of the country and runs in a south-easterly direction to a delta on the south coast. It gives it's name to the Beartoggle region and it's capital city.

## Description

In season 1 we learn that Raphina ran a rafting service on the Beartoggle River, which was destroyed by a large "supernatural" wave which suddenly rushed down the river at her. After this catastrophic event, an unnamed deity speaks to her and she is set on a path of wandering. Raphina later relived these events in a vision at St. Andral's Church. In the vision, time freezes before the wave hits and she witnesses scenes from Will's childhood, before the same unnamed deity tells her *"The creature that needs your help is right in front of you"*. In season 2, our heroes take an airship from Barovia to Carnivar and crash land near the Beartoggle River, forcing them to journey down it in a bid to reach the capital city.

The habitations of Chilchirah's Lair, Norton and Morrow's Inlet are located on the river, on it's north-western end. The capital city, Beartoggle, is situated close to the river's mouth, on the river delta. On their travels, Raphina learns from Millicent the worm about the Toggle Dam and Beartoggle Lake, even though she doesn't remember these herself.

## Episode Appearances

* 22: Aren't We a Little Old to Be Put in Child Pies?: Raphina takes the Ring of Swimming: "During my days running Raphina's Rafting Service on the Beartoggle River. The animals that I saw every day had webbing on their feet. And were very content to paddle about the river. I'm just saying. It could be a useful thing."

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* 298: AS YOU FIIIIISH: "You [Raphina] find yourself on the surface of the, not the Beartoggle Lake, but the Beartoggle River, just as you remember it, just north of town. You see the town stretching over in the distance. [...] You're in the midst of this big-ass fucking river. It's kind of quiet up here. [...] It's deep, it's a deep river, but yeah."
* 299: Like a Zen Rake: Alex: "Does the river have a sandy bottom and it's kind of shallow? It's the same river that..." Abby: "It's the old river..." Alex: "...that Raphina would like get her little log barge and stick and..." Abby: "Yeah." Eric: "That's correct." [...] Abby: "The point is, that it is what I was looking for. It was the old Beartoggle." Alex: "And it's just like before you even knew any of us." / Anglerfish: "You mean how like Beartoggle is like a different place than you thought it was gonna be, with like the dam and everything."
* 301: I'm Gonna Have to Give Its Family a Refund: Raphina: "Do you see those little tiny sticks that are moving across back and forth across the river? [...] Those are those little scoochie bugs, the little skitter bugs, the water scoochie bugs, and they're pushing... They're the new raft... They're the new ferriers. And if you look really close, those little sticks, there're tiny ants on them. So they're getting back and forth just fine with the scoochiers." / Alex: "How deep is the river? It's up to our waists?" Eric: "Yeah, remember in your vision before?" / Adam: "Has Rosco always know in his time in Beartoggle... It's always been a lake?" Eric: "Yeah." / "The river is... it's not as open as the lake, it's all got trees over the edges and stuff."
* 302: So Profound, and Yet So Unhelpful: Eric (as the party sail into town): "This is a nice big wide river. The bridges across aren't there, because it's too big. But you see boats running back and forth. You could definitely see the need for a ferry business. [...] It's a much wider river than before, but from what you can see on the left on the right bank, it looks like the Beartoggle you guys had explored, but if there were a big fat wide river, as opposed to the little river running through it." [...] Abby: "You know, the river is not all that deep. It's kind of shallow." Eric: "It's pretty deep now. Certainly deeper than it was." Abby: "You remember the goblin fight?" Eric: "It wasn't deep at all. That wasn't in the middle of the city. [...] It looks like a big broad wide riverbed. You don't see any submerged ruins or anything like that, maybe another bicycle, but nothing that would indicate a huge grand hotel."
* 307: I Didn't Eat Any Cheating Cake :(: Raphina: "Something seems fishy. And it's not just the salt-faced cod of the Beartoggle River coming to the surface at midnight."

## Quotes

Any memorable quotes about this location.

## References

1. ↑ 22: Aren't We a Little Old to Be Put in Child Pies?
2. ↑ 25: Eat Your Beets and Leave Me Alone
3. ↑ 27: Mist-ical Visions: Part 3
4. ↑ 172: Blimp Fight 4: Skies Over Miami
5. ↑ 180: Nobody Could Be Happy In a Cave
6. ↑ 173: Why Can't Mommy and Daddy Just Talk to Each Other?!
7. ↑ 191: He Said "Teat"
8. ↑ See the map
9. ↑ 209: Various Brick Sounds