Vaughn Dnar River

The Vaughn Dnar River drains Lake Kronov in Tepest. The Vaughn Dnar skirts Kellee in Tepest and passes through Liara in Nova Vaasa, before being joined by the Trished River just east of Liara and bending to the southeast. It is joined by the Borchava River halfway between Liara and Kantora, and continues east by southeast, passing just north of Kantora, where it is joined by the Dnar River, becoming the Sydligdnar ("South Dnar River"). The Sydligdnar drains into the Nocturnal Sea just north of Egertus at Guldstrand Beach via the Katsmund Canyon. Stonegard, the fortified seat of the Bolshnik family and of its patriarch Prince Othmar, sits opposite Kantora on the north bank of the Vaughn Dnar and west bank of the Dnar.

The Sydligdnar ("South Dnar River") is navigable, although not without difficulty in both directions owing to its current, with small ships between the Nocturnal Sea and the docks at Kantora. The Sydligdnar and the Vaughn Dnar River at this point are too deep to be forded. Bridges consistent with small ships pose an engineering problem, but none are mentioned, so ferry service for river crossings would make sense. A ferry service is known to exist between Kantora and Egertus.

The Vaughn Dnar River is almost certainly navigable, albeit with craft not so large as a small ship, and with smaller craft still as one climbs past the Borchava River and the Trished River on the way to Liara. The Vaughn Dnar is not navigable in Tepest as its waters plunge through gorges of no great depth but which are narrow, twisting, and rock strewn..

The East Timori Road remains on the south shore of the Vaughn Dnar from Kantora until just after the Trished River, inviting the hypothesis that at that point either the Vaughn Dnar becomes fordable or has a bridge thrown across it that doesn't greatly harm river traffic. To reach this point, the East Timori Road crosses the Borchava River, indicating that it is either more fordable than the Vaughn Dnar or that a bridge thrown across it would do less harm to river traffic than one thrown over the Vaughn Dnar. In Liara there is at least one bridge over the Vaughn Dnar. There are four ancient stone bridges over the Vaughn Dnar between the Tepestian frontier and Lake Kronov.

Note: On the map from Servants of Darkness, which the descriptions in the Tepest chapter of Ravenloft Gazeetter Volume V seem to be following, the Vaughn River turns south in Tepest and the South Dnar River of Tepest runs east from Lake Kronov. To my eye then, the two have been transposed. In support of this conclusion it would make sense if the South Dnar of Tepest ran south. More importantly, Lake Kronov is described as being the source of the Vaughn Dnar ("The Vaughn Dnar flows from Lake Kronov[.]") in the Nova Vaasa chapter of Ravenloft Gazeetter Volume V. So someone is wrong. Finally, I suspect that there is some geographic nameing convention to the effect that to be a tributary a tributary must not contribute a greater volume of water to a river than the river itself carried up to that point. That is a complex way of saying that Lake Kronov appears to be the largest source of the Vaughn Dnar River so having the Vaughn Dnar fork off into the hills and connecting it to Lake Kronov via a tributary strikes me as an error. Granted, it is asking overmuch for the Tepestian to follow naming conventions (even if they exist).

		Servants of Darkness Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume V
		Servants of Darkness - p17 Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume V - p13
		Servants of Darkness - poster map Ravenloft Third Edition - inside back cover Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume V - p12
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