Singing Water (Rook)

About

Names

Singing Water

The Rook of Singing Water is a unique colony of Etausi-Mal, whom have established a home in a large grotto fed by several mountain streams which culminate at a large cave opening. Numerous streams of water cascade and drop down through the ceiling into a wide deep pool of clear water. Suspended amongst sturdy vines hanging from the roof of the grotto are the individual dwellings of the Etausi; Giant baskets woven from the still living vines, hang like fruit, each housing a handful of the colony’s population.

Below the large pool of the grotto, the water flows down a wide stair-like formation, in a series of mineral crusted pools. These pools in turn drain into a shallow lake. The lake itself is dotted with the floating island lodges of common lodge lizards.

This small piece of paradise is maintained by the rook, who have taken to domesticating the lodge lizards as a sustainable food source. They practice limited agriculture utilizing some of the floating mats as garden plots, adding a layer of rich loamy soil and scattering the seeds of wild cereal crops, melons, squash, and some berry bushes. This domestication of animals and sustainable agriculture is rare amongst the Etausi.

Location

Darlom Mountains

Recently discovered by the naturalist Meihas Vorshaus a mendicant priest from the Waejiran city of Aerimadur this rook has been long established in the forested foothills of the Darlom Mountains near the border between Quzonia and Aralia approximately 58 leagues from the Quzonian town of Edimind.

Population

Size

256

Composition

• 100% Etausi Mal

Local Government

Ruler

Tasala

History

Founded

Locations

Cairns of the Departed (graveyard)

Floating Gardens (gardens)

The Creche (nests)

Persons

Contemporary

Meihas Vorshaus (naturalist)

Tasala (matriarch)

Thusula (ranger)

Historic

Stories

Rook of Singing Water (story)