Known For
A People Shaped by Place
Navigation, river law, trade routes, fisheries, patient councils, and an instinctive respect for what moves beneath a calm surface.
Chapter II
Tidewalkers
The Great Inland Waters · Where others see water, they see roads.
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The Great Inland Waters
The great lakes and rivers of Katarra belong to no crown. Ask a Tidewalker and they may tell you they belong to the water instead. Their settlements rise above it, disappear beneath it, and follow currents outsiders seldom understand.
What travelers know
Public knowledgeThe Homeland
The Great Inland Waters
Great lakes, broad rivers, deltas, marshes, and floodplains support floating, stilt-built, and semi-submerged settlements linked by routes outsiders may never notice.
CapitalSularis
Whispered, Not Proven
There Is More Here
Some currents lead somewhere no chart admits exists.
A Traveler's Ledger
Before You Enter The Great Inland Waters
Common knowledge collected from merchants, guides, guild records, and people sensible enough to come back.
What Matters Here
How They Govern
Loose confederacies distribute authority rather than concentrating it. Important decisions are traditionally debated in Circle Councils held in the water itself.
Name Worth Knowing
The Lake Confederacies
Things That Kill Careless Travelers
FloodsDeepwater predatorsDrowned ruinsCurrent anomalies
This is enough to begin a journey. It is not enough to survive every one.
The Codex does not tell every story. Customs, settlements, rivalries, histories, hazards, and secrets are meant to be encountered in Katarra—not exhausted on a reference page.