The White Gull is a large river that cuts through the Peninsula. It is the holy grounds for a deity called The Trawler-man. The cities along the river play the main setting for the podcast.
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Geography[]
Jon Ware disclaims that geography is not his strength ("if the geographers see this I am done for"[1]) but his most recent "official" map puts the river originating in the northeast mountainous areas (perhaps with unmentioned tributaries from the mountains) and flows southwest, cutting the country in half. Its mouth empties into the ocean on the southern shore, by Acantha's Lych-House. Bellwethers is located on a minor offshoot of the river.[1]
The previous iteration of the map (the Patreon map) placed Bellwethers directly on the coast next to the bridge to Nesh,[2] Season 1 also described the area of Belwethers as a "delta", suggesting that the town was located on the mouth of the river, and that the White Gull flowed from south to north, emptying into the bay between the The Peninsula and The Linger Straits. Since Season 2 places the mouth of the river in the south, it's likely that the geography of the river was reimagined as a river cannot have two mouths; rivers originate with minor tributaries in high elevations, which join to form a single stream that flows to lower elevations, eventually spilling out to a major body of water at its "mouth".[3] Perhaps in an effort to resolve this contradiction, in the newer map, the river flows from north to south, and Belwethers is located on a minor offshoot rather than on the northern coast. The idea that the river flows from north to south is reinforced by the source of the river being located in the Polluted Lands in the north of the Peninsula.[4]
River-Adjacent Locations[]
- Marcel's Crossing and Bellwethers are both located directly on the river.
- Paraclete's Gulch is located in a natural river valley of the White Gull.
- Somewhere along the river, there is a Hydroelectric Dam.
- The Grand Aquifer is at the river's source.