The Everflow
A vast river that flows in a grand circle and reaches no sea, supporting a rainforest with nearly as many species as the rest of Everdew combined. The Iyara follow it, build nothing that cannot travel, and defend it without qualification.
The Land
The river is the region. It runs a closed loop through the Greenmantle's south-east, and the jungle it waters is denser, wetter and far more crowded than the High Forest to its north — a single bend of the Everflow will hold species found nowhere else and catalogued by nobody.
Where the loop comes nearest the province's southern edge, its overflow drains away into the Silt-Braided Basin of the Veldt, which is the only water the Everflow gives up and the reason the Basin exists.
To the west the ground rises into the Roan; to the north the trees climb into the High Forest.
The Iyara
Water nymphs who keep no permanent homes at all. Their villages are rafts, barges and pontoons that travel with the current, so an Iyara settlement is a place that will be somewhere else next season and considers this normal.
Playful and generous with anyone they have decided to trust, and utterly without give on the subject of the river. The Everflow's ecosystem is not a resource to the Iyara, it is a body, and they will fight tooth and claw over injuries to it that outsiders cannot see. More than one Kingdom survey party has discovered the boundary of Iyara patience by crossing it.
Encounters
Roll d100. A closed loop of river through the densest country in the world. Nothing here is catalogued and everything is occupied. CR is scaled to Faerie size — see Challenge by Size.
| d100 | Encounter | CR |
|---|---|---|
| 01–09 | 1d6 Iyara on a moving village, generous, and testing whether you respect the river | — |
| 10–16 | 2d8 uncatalogued species on a single bend, and a Kingdom surveyor already writing | — |
| 17–23 | flood: the loop rises overnight and the bank you camped on is midstream | — |
| 24–30 | 2d6 mosquitoes off the slack water at dusk | ½ |
| 31–36 | 1d4 water striders across a backwater | 2 |
| 37–42 | 1d3 backswimmers under the film beside a raft | 2 |
| 43–48 | 2d4 wolf spiders on the flooded litter, young on their backs | 3 |
| 49–54 | 1d4 diving beetles in a still oxbow | 4 |
| 55–60 | 1d2 dragonflies over the channel — the apex of the air, and it misses once in twenty | 5 |
| 61–66 | 1d3 newts, jewel-coloured, poisonous, and completely unbothered | 5 |
| 67–72 | 1 giant water bug beneath a raft's mooring | 7 |
| 73–77 | 1d2 tarantulas in the buttress roots, reach Large | 7 |
| 78–82 | 1 praying mantis on a hanging vine, courteous throughout | 8 |
| 83–87 | 1d2 fishing spiders running the current | 9 |
| 88–91 | 1d2 frogs in the shallows, in colours that mean do not | 9 |
| 92–94 | 1 bat over the channel at dusk, hunting by sound | 10 |
| 95–96 | 1 bullfrog at a village mooring | 13 |
| 97–98 | 1 lesser snake in the canopy above the water, silent | 14 |
| 99 | 1 kingfisher down the river line at speed | 14 |
| 00 | 1 greater snake in the loop, and the Iyara have a name for this one | 25 |