he Great Confluence is a name used to describe the area where the Talabec and Delb rivers meet, and ultimately flow to the Reik. The Talabec originates in the rapid streams of the northern reaches of the Worlds Edge Mountains between the Dwarf Fortress of Karak Kadrin and the ruins of Karak Ungor. The river steadily widens throughout its course to Talabheim, eventually becoming too wide to bridge.

At Talabheim, there is a major ferry point, providing the last reliable crossing before the river flows, heavily laden with dark soil from the plains, into the Reik at Altdorf. Many tributaries and streams drain into the Talabec from the hills in the Great Confluence region, swelling the river to a massive size, and the forests about are often flooded in spring.

A huge amount of river-borne traffic passes along the Talabec, the mighty waterway growing ever more crowded as it passes the many villages and towns along its length. As a result, much wealth flows into those settlements, and the merchant classes that populate them are wealthy and influential, contributing much to the political and economic power the Grand Duchy is able to exert over its neighbours, rivalling even the mighty Reikland.

The entire region is highly fertile, with much cultivated land below the confluence of the Delb and Talabec, particularly where the Talabec basin borders the Reik's Marches. Many small farmsteads work the soil, the people ever pushing back the dark eaves of the forest to clear more land.

But there are certain tracts of the region in which the farmers and merchants fear to travel. Quite apart from the Beastmen that plague the darker parts of the entire Great Forest, the woods to the east are the subject of many folk tales. Some claim the forest takes on a fey, enchanted air the deeper one travels, the paths becoming ever more winding until the traveller is hopelessly lost. These green depths are said to be haunted by creatures akin to Elves, perhaps some lost kin of the dangerous peoples of Athel Loren to the southwest.

Whether this the truth or not, none of the few, foolhardy men who have set out in search of a fair Elven wife have returned, their bones instead nourishing the loamy soil of the fertile eastern glades.

Regions of the Great Forest

For information on the locations within this region, see the Warroom when it open on June 25, 2007.

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