Editing Bachariko (section)

===Realm of the Drowned King===

Flood bringer, the Water of life, principle of cycles, divine destruction and reshaping, the river-kings lands sprawl the largest southern river of Bachariko, smaller in size than the sickle king, but holding the headwaters of the greatest of the Three Rivers and the Marshes that line the foothills and highlands of the upper rivers. The Drowned King holds court in the waterfalls of the first Cataract, a palace of stone and bamboo, the wealth of trade, the bounty of trade and the purity of the waters providing wealth and rebirth with the eternal rivers, and calling on hundreds of villages and hamlets deep into the tributaries and pathways. The Great observatory sits atop a rocky pillar, high above the surrounding isles and towns, linked by the reed boats and floating islands of woven roots and crops. His legions are not levies as in the northlands, but proud dedicated river men, bloodied against the tribes and beast of the great jungles to the south, and feared for there tendency to ritually drown captives. He holds the rare flowers and lore that can extend life, and is guarded by the spirits of the scaled beast that eat whole men in a single flash of teeth.

-- by stephen_dean