The Canals of Bergolast
When the Burning Lands were green and rivers flowed across their length and breadth, the good folk of Bergolast built canals for their trading barges. In parts, they cut around mountains. In others, they built bridges over valleys so the canals could run flat.
The Bergolasti even cut through the Devil’s Spine, opening up caves and caverns turned wild since Bergolast’s fall.
Untended since those days, most of the canals remain – though all but one are as dry as the rest of the Burning Lands. They serve now as roads for travellers and caravans, and where they are raised above the ground they offer a first defence against raiders and predatory animals (or serve as a trap if an aggressor is already upon the canal).
Mostly surviving is the canal that linked Hyfalls and Bergolast. In most parts, it is raised two metres off of the ground. Travellers that avoid the hyena packs by using the canal find they have only two directions to run when the rogue Nekh One-Wing swoops down from the sky.
Hooks
- Where is the one canal where the water still flows?
- Who wants the Nekh done away with?
- Why are they called One-Wing if they can fly? What make them a rogue Nekh?
- Who would want to travel between the ruins of Bergolast and Hyfalls these days?