Many of the major rivers of Silverthorne are well mapped and navigated regularly as chief trade routes of the kingdom. For the most part they are wider and safer than any road system which the military is able to maintain. That is not to say that rivers are not without their own dangers. In the place of the wild monsters and roving scavengers that are common to caravan routes overland are well armed brigands in their galleys and freebooting conartists ready to take the unwary sailor for all he is worth. The best way to travel the rivers is still well armed and in broad daylight.

Ari’i River

The Ari has been named for the dark forest of the Ga’Vin that stands along its western shore for much of its length. The river itself begins at the heart of Harrison’s lands in his capital of Gilbain. The river is rather deep and narrow, moving quite quickly along most of its length. Navigating her takes a strong arm and quick wits. Not a few ships have foundered on her shores never to be seen again.

Black River

‘Chure’ I tell bout the ‘Black. A slow and wide waste of land she is. Cuts Salleck from the king and ‘is knights surren as I can sink. Ferryin ‘is men and stuffs across done made me rich though. Verlan a day to my ferry ‘or use in da war. ‘On’t let the hole in ‘y eek scare you. Got it from an orcy spike I did. Done saved a barrel of apples at that. King rewarded me with a double days change. If’n you ever try to cross from the Moony mountains down to Da’Thanis, where’n those horsies are, you’ll have to cross at my ferry or one of my cousin’s. We gots a ‘nopoly on the ferry business.’

-Dugnar the Ferrymaster

Bonnifuss River

As a slow moving body of water, chilled in the high passes of the Cresent mountains where it begins, the Bonnifuss rivr is perhaps the most heavily plied trade river in the kingdom. Raw material from Alleria and the Dwarven homelands makes its way along this course to merge with the Dorchak River just before Castelion.

Dorchak River

This waterway begins in the northern edges of the Crescent Mountains but flows south and for most of its length passes through the duchy of duke Kendal. It has been diverted to flow around the frontier’s capital city with a series of dikes and trenches as a natural defense against foreign incursion. Farther south it provides fertile feeding ground to the horses of Da’Thanis where it merges with the black river.

Silver River

Aye she’s a might fine and pretty river. Fine as a ladies horse and ten times as strong. Never let her see you weaken though or the beauty’ll smash you on her shores. She makes the passage ‘tween Inner Sea and Silverthorne proper in a straight course with all the outflow of the three great rivers inland. She not be stopped or contained no more than a herd of flying blue trolls.

-Attributed to Osmund Car of House Jacorik, at Norrilon.

Serpent River

‘I have been plying the slow tropical eddies of this the magnificent Serpent for longer than your kingdom has existed manling. Of course I can tell you about it. I could fill your books with its wonders and amaze you with the many stories of the lands and peoples that have flourished along her banks for centuries. From headwaters within the Chaos mountains all the way to her outflow in the Inner Sea, she twists and turns in slow grandure.

‘Sea serpents you ask? Of course, we have serpents, and flowers and fishes, and many poisonous birds and beasties as well, it is a rainforest after all. Fear not though, most of them kill you painlessly and fast. Those that don’t can be cured with a quick amputation to the base of the limb. Simple enough even for a young human surgeon to perform.’

-Il’Sionumb -The Redshadow, Elven boatman.

Susspin River

" Da, the Bear Flood gives us sustinence here in susspin. Without her cool floodwaters in the spring our crops would not grow and the great stone walls of our fortress city would be without food. She is still crops and beautiful here before passing into the dreaded forest to the south. It is the domain of sorcery and foul trickery you know. Well I must get back to my crops, have to keep the river leeches from the livestock and the prize horses you know."

-Unknown Farmer