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Question [FRG] 35
The river of the seasons is one of the larger portals on fragment, what makes it interesting?
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Answer 35 [FRG]- The River of the Seasons
The River of the Seasons is the portal through which the thousand vessels of the Turtle Fleet splashed down on Calledron. One moment, they're sailing through the Thelthuane Straits to righteous victory against the pagan Hoggans, and the next they're plummeting through 50 feet of empty air onto a stretch of dark jungle on the lower slope of Calledron's western wall. Whatever sacrifice the Hoggans had made to their Lady Summer and the Springthane, it was grand enough for them to open a Fairy Lane as had never been seen before.
Unfortunately, there still remains a tenuous, apparently one-way connection between the two realms. It opens at random intervals linked to the tides, lunar phases or the emotional states of the Thane and Lady, and hapless fishing vessels, boulder crabs, whales or pirate carracks get sucked across the polycosmic void. Sometimes mists or storms come through a partial portal, other times the sky above the crater fills with silent explosions like puffing dandelions as a significant mass is ported through.
What used to be a few miles of solid jungle is now a briny swamp-filled crater due to the irregular inundations of seawater. The wreckage of the original Turtle Fleet was long ago salvaged and carted off to either be used in building makeshift fortresses and barricades for the stranded arrivals, or later to be reassembled as the first navy ever seen on Calledron's Inland Sea. However, any luckless victims coming through the portal now will likely be imprisoned immediately, or summarily killed if they threaten to bring stories of what's happening back on the homeworld. A number of guard towers ring the crater, there's a stone brighouse, but also there's the grandiose Shrine of the Forgotten Seas looking down upon the crater, with an altar forged of melted down ship's anchors.
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Question 46 [MV]- Death Cult
Which secret, underground cult worships Thresher? How? Why? What plans do they have involving a visit to Praxis?
Question 47 [MV][Name 5]- Races (Re Answer 7/Post 8)
If humans are the most complained about species, what are some of the other races? Which ones live on Calledron?
Actually, let's make this a "Name 5" question, that is, let's describe at least 5 races in some detail.