I'm trying hard but I don't get it, fumbling my education check again and again.

How is this river running through the mouth of Morr in "The Witch's Song" supposed to work.

SPOILERS:

Supposedly this river is the Bäch. The Bäch has to flow into the Reik in order to allow the adventurers to arrive from there. How can it flow into the Mouth of Morr (adventure book, p. 40) at the same time? And then, to reach the Sea of Claws a ship would sail throug the cave, up the river to be later hauled over land to be watered again into an unnamed river to get to the sea????? Aguirre style?????

Please, somebody explain that to me, it's driving me nuts!

Check out a map of a large river delta, like say the Nile, Amazon or Rhine. It's fairly common that when a big river reaches a large flat expanse and a slow-moving state as it approaches the sea, that it can split into a number of smaller channels. (If that's the problem you have with it.)

IANAGeologist.

That's a really good point and answers one of my questions. The other remains though - how can the Bäch run south to flow into the Reik and north to flow into the Mouth of Morr at the same time?

AlephTau said:

Does it actually say that? I guess it could if it were fed from a spring. Or if it were tidal (quite likely so close to the sea), it would flow towards the Reik as the tide came in and towards the sea as the tide went out again.

Witch's Song, page 11:

"A distributary of the Reik, it flows north into the Cursed Marshes where it pours into a still, dark pool two miles from the village, known as the Knochenpfütze."

Don't confound tributary and distributary.

korknadel said:

Thank you! You completely untied my brain!