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+===== Foreword =====
+These pages chronicle my journeys through the lands of the Misty River Valley and beyond.
+From the stories, you'd not know it, but I am not [[people:Riverfolk]] myself. In my youth, I rebel roused - sometimes literally - in faraway [[geography:region:Thicket]]. In truth, it is not that far away as the crow flies, but the temperate western rainforests are all but impassable even to the most intrepid travelers.
+In making my way to the valleys of the [[geography:river:Misty River]], I explored the swamplands and befriended the druids and shamans who give passage through the dark and foreboding [[geography:region:Misty Delta]], and learned something of their magicks. The river floods a great basin to your south, but hardy and hearty farmers till this fertile land, starting over every few years when the gods of the River wipe the slates clean.
+But after these trials, I came upon the [[geography:nation:Central Empire]]'s [[geography:city:South Gate]] and made my way to the [[geography:city:Grand Towers#Markets]] between the [[geography:city:Grand Towers]]. Here, commerce prevails and coin rules above all else - except, of course, for the [[people:Riverfolk#River Controllers]], whose motives and means are forever shrouded in secrecy. A thick smog hovers forever over the harbours and markets, providing ample cover for shady business of all types.
+Beyond the Towers, and beyond the Gates, live people as varied as the lands they occupy. The cold, bluegray mountains of [[geography:nation:Tanas]], known for their abundance of coal and a people as hard as the mountains they dwell in. The endless farmlands of the [[geography:nation:Carmi]] valley and its many kings and vassal lords. The hardscrabble tundra along the vast [[geography:sea:Inland Sea]], and the fur trappers, lumberjacks, and metal miners the eek hard livings from a hostile, cold [[geography:nation:Frontier]].
+Few dare approach the many seas, distant and fuzzy remembrances of floods and storms of bygone eras still haunt our nightmares. But few is not none - and still the occasional outcast roams the plains beyond Tanas, towards the [[geography:sea:Stormy Seas]], and still the occasional monster makes way from these lands to intrude on the relative serenity of our lands. In winter, the [[people:icemen]] venture south from beyond the [[geography:sea:Inland Sea]], threatening both the Carmi and the Frontiersmen. Many great and terrible beasts still lurk in the [[geography:region:misty_river:Green Mountains]], and deep in the mines of Tanas as well.
+I have met many men from beyond this valleys as well - I myself am of [[geography:nation:Thicket]] and occasionally trip upon my fellow countrymen; hardy and foolhardy folks, gregarious, scratching out a living on the edges of a great, dense rainforest. Their nearest neighbours, a more rowdy and dangerous lot who settled the arid [[geography:nation:Chaparral]], tending their herds of cattle and protecting them from lurks deeper in western deserts. I've ventured as far west as a great city, many weeks' travel from the [[geography:city:North Gate]], that sits in the foothills of sharp, craggy mountains the likes of which beggar belief, a city with vast mineral wealth, but so remote that the people live as nomadic hunters and sheep herders, unaware of what their riches would fetch at the [[geography:Grand Towers]].
+In these pages, you will read a great deal about each of these and more, and I do hope that these writings will aid you in your journey. You may address any corrections to me via correspondence to:
+[[people:adventurer:Marcos Clemens]]
+care of:
+[[geography:city:Cairo#The Silver Oar]], the West Reaches, [[geography:city:Cairo]] at the [[geography:city:South Gate]].