East Musarde River
The East Musarde River innoculously cuts across the Pommel of southern Nova Vaasa a little south of Arbora. The puzzle it poses is suggested by its name and by the direction in which it flows. The East Musarde flows west, not east, which is not to say that it flows out of, rather than into, the Nocturnal Sea. Before one reaches the river the sea has been replaced by a Misty Border. The river then flows out of the Mists in the east and back into the Mists in the West. As to its name, locals, backed by the Vistani, maintain that it is a "continuation" of the Musarde, the great river of the Western Core that is fed not only by the meltwaters of the Barovian and Hazlani Balinoks, but also by rivers that emerge from the Misty Border in southern Sithicus and in southwestern Hazlan. The East Musarde then is supposed to flow into, or even be, one of these rivers.
Prior to the Great Upheaval in 740 BC, Mount Makab in Bluetspur was the source of a river that traversed the Nightmare Lands and subsequently may have become the East Musarde. Were this so, both Musarde Rivers would have had at that time a shared source in Mount Makab, but neither would have been the "continuation" of the other.
