East Musarde River

The East Musarde River cuts innocuously enough across the Pommel of southern Nova Vaasa a little south of Arbora. The puzzle that 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. By this point the eastern frontier of Nova Vaasa has been replaced by the Misty Border.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 emerges from the Misty Border of southwestern Hazlan. So the river that disappears into the Mists as the East Musarde in Nova Vaasa reappears from the Mists as the Musarde in Hazlan.

It is evident enough how the Vistani might know such a thing. But it is less so with the locals. Perhaps one or more captains of the Mists is known to make regular use of the East Musarde River to carry goods back and forth between the Eastern and Western Core.

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.

Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue

		Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume V The Ravenloft Campaign Setting - poster map
		Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume V - p13-14
		The Ravenloft Campaign Setting - poster map Ravenloft Third Edition - inside back cover Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume I - p12 Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume V - p12