Hex 39.08 (shared with the Spawn)
In the last parts of the Witchwater before the Edge, humans may travel the waterways without fear of elven arrow. These lands are firmly under the control of the giant talking beavers, who have built vast city-dams and canals to tame the Kingswood.
They also manage rows of trees to feed their hunger for timber, each row ending with a hawthorn bush.
Beavers are hospitable and will welcome travellers into their homes, which are under the lakes but able to be reached from dry land. The largest dam, Riparia, is a fortress in itself, jutting with sharpened sticks and various traps.
Watchtowers stationed at the dam farthest upstream mark the limits of beaver control, but there are lodges all along the rivers of the Kingswood. Beavers transmit messages by striking the water with their broad, flat tails: these messages can be relayed all the way to the other side of the Kingswood.
Beavers keep mute but clever muskrats as pets.
Hooks:
- Why have the elves permitted this intrusion? Do they have a choice?
- Why are some animals able to talk?
- What urgent messages might be sent by beaver relay?
- What would one trade with a beaver?