Roundstone Streams
These are the brooks and streams of the Roundstone Clan lands:
Anvil Brook
Anvill Brook flows from the Stormwalk Mountains and joins the Stream near Caroman. It is the main river of the Sambari but is lost in the Stream with hardly a trace. It seems to share some of the eerie nature of the Stream. No one sacrifices to it and the Sambari cannot communicate with any entity in it. The people who live near its banks say that no one should take a boat on it alone or sit alone beside it. There are stories that people have disappeared who have done so. No one swims in the brook if they can avoid it.
Don't Drink
This upper part of this stream is of swift flowing dark water and comes from a passage beneath Bright Eye. It joins the Anvil Brook in Machun's Marsh. In the marsh the stream is infected by the disease spirit Machun. The daemon of the stream called Irsis is bound into into the service of Machun. Perhaps if the daemon was freed it would run pure again. Its poisonous waters have no effect on the eerie Anvil Brook. In theory the upper part of the stream above the marsh may be drinkable but because of its origin no one cares to find out. No one sacrifices to Irsis under normal circumstances but is not unknown for people to try to gain its powers:
Irsis | Poison Water, Speak to Ghosts |
Traits | Poisonous, Cruel |
Neverlass
Neverless is the daemon of Neverless which is the stream which flows through Noble and Lade. Orvaldunus the Noble sacrificed to her and asked her blessing when he founded the village. In Sea Season, Fertility Week, Waterday it is her festival. There is a procession for girls and women from her spring on Bear Hill to her end at Anvil Brook in Lade. On the way small sacrificial bronze objects (a fish, a basket and a hook) are thrown into the deep pool Neverlass makes where she comes down in a waterfall from the hill. They also decorate the small plank bridges over the stream with flowers. On this day too all the bridges are repaired if necessary and any blockages that have fallen into the stream such as trees or big stones washed down from the hill are cleared by the men. The last part of the festival is a ceremony with dancing, singing and sacrificed animals in Lade. If Neverlass is seen she is a girl with greenish skin and hair who sits on the bank of the stream and cries with her tears falling into the water. No one knows why she cries but there is a story that if anyone could find out they could bring a great blessing on the villages.
Neverlass | Fishing Blessing, Clean Water Blessing, Water Meadow Blessing |
Traits | Silent, Sad |