Editing Diners of Amber (section)

==='''Salisgir, Unari.'''===

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Definantly not a diner.

Well, depends what you eat.

The Great Gorge of Unari houses a waterfall of amazing beauty. It is a vast region of incomparable appeal. Watercourse, flower draped bowers amidst smells of honey and roses.

I was surprised when Random wanted this card included. Nearly all of the elders have had assignations of the romantic kind in this shadow at one time or another. Rumor has always suggested that Osric, Finndo, and Benedict were conceived here. It is a great place to make whoopy.

In retrospect I must admit it makes some sense. Man can't live on bread alone.

<span style=color:darkgreen>Addendum

<span style=color:darkgreen>This idyllic place has fallen out of favor of late. The association with Doria has soured its romantic appeal. There are a number of small private shrines here. Most to the unicorn of course. It was at one of these shrines Doria committed suicide. Luckily while she died, her death was not a final one.

<span style=color:darkgreen>Trust Dory to ruin a perfectly good paradise.

<span style=color:darkgreen>Just a tad on the geography of this realm because one of the cousins, Vance of course, made a trip there and did something unusual. He brought his companion, not unusual, and two jet speeders with their camping gear. It had never occurred to me, nor anyone else it seems, to explore more then a few days horse ride from the spot the card delivers you.

<span style=color:darkgreen>The Great Gorge is certainly the most well known place. Within 500 miles of it on either side is a east/west ridge of vast waterfalls. Above it is a lush plain stretching further then we cared to explore when love was on our minds. It seems that a thousand miles north of the divide is a mighty lake, fed by an even greater snowy mountain range. This volcanic range dumps lava north, melting the snow that falls year round. A very dynamic water system, a friend of mine told me when I described it.

<span style=color:darkgreen>This lake blooms a dozen rivers each miles across to flow down toward the Divide. They splinter into smaller streams that create the waterfalls.

<span style=color:darkgreen>South of the divide is the verdant forests, woodlands, and meadows that we have all come to love and to love in. Six hundred miles to the south the rivers start reuniting as they bunch into a vast collections of lakes braced by a third ridge of low mountains and hills. These are more rock-piles then mountains and they trickle the water down to a beach unlike any I had seen before. They show an active water system having washed away light soil from hard stone.

<span style=color:darkgreen>A new areas for fun have been found.

<span style=color:darkgreen>The Beach is about 2000 miles long and at most 20 miles deep from the Third range to the crystal blue sea. The rives flow into the ocean creating fresh water trickles into a lightly salty sea. The beaches vary between white, gray, blue, pink, coral, golden, and black sands. Its very impressive.

<span style=color:darkgreen>What Vance found was a region of numerous white water rapids of great complexity from the First ridge to the Second Ridge. He and I recently ran a few and I think I may start charting the good ones. I was amazed at Vance, really.  Ive long enjoyed white water rafting but it was sort of a private thing.  When Vance and ran these it was amongst the most fun I ever had with a relative while sober. The ones we ran were in the high 3, 4, and low 5 range.  We noted a few 6s and tried a few.. A rapid one runs while having a trump open as an escape route is a challenging one.  

<span style=color:darkgreen>The rock climbing at the Third Ridge is challenging as well for freehand work. There are caves worth exploring in all three Ridges.

<span style=color:darkgreen>And of course the beach.

<span style=color:darkgreen>When Vance and I showed all this to Random his comment was "There goes the neighborhood"

<span style=color:darkgreen>For centuries that we elders knew of it an informal rule has been build nothing permanent here. Tent, yurts, Tippies, Vardo wagons, and such were the norm if more then a blanket was needed. Random has codified this now. He has rulled no digging, not building, except for Unicorn shrines.

<span style=color:darkgreen>I think he knows something we don't.