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	\|alt_names = the Khalgann		\|alt_names = the Khalgann
	\|image = <!-- Sidebar - filename of a picture of the river -->		\|image = <!-- Sidebar - filename of a picture of the river -->
			\|continent = Gallorea
	\|map = <!-- Sidebar - filename of a map showing the river's course; if omitted, page is placed in the "Needs Map" Category -->		\|map = <!-- Sidebar - filename of a map showing the river's course; if omitted, page is placed in the "Needs Map" Category -->
	\|source = High in the [[Black Mountains]] of central Gallorea		\|source = High in the [[Black Mountains]] of central Gallorea

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	\|length = 735		\|length = 735
	\|tributary_of = <!-- Sidebar - The main river this one feeds, if this is a tributary rather than a river in its own right; creates the "Tributaries" Category -->		\|tributary_of = <!-- Sidebar - The main river this one feeds, if this is a tributary rather than a river in its own right; creates the "Tributaries" Category -->
	\|realm1 = [[Velanos]]		\|realm1 = Velanos
	\|realm2 = [[Zengara]]		\|realm2 = Zengara
	\|realm3 = <!-- Sidebar - A third realm the river flows through, if any -->		\|realm3 = <!-- Sidebar - A third realm the river flows through, if any -->
	\|realm4 = <!-- Sidebar - A fourth realm the river flows through, if any -->		\|realm4 = <!-- Sidebar - A fourth realm the river flows through, if any -->

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	Thus the whole watercourse is a single dark thread from mountain to sea: the [[Black Mountains]] in the south, the Black River between, and [[Ugbarra Marsh]] where it drowns at the last into the [[Ygarlsed Sea]].		Thus the whole watercourse is a single dark thread from mountain to sea: the [[Black Mountains]] in the south, the Black River between, and [[Ugbarra Marsh]] where it drowns at the last into the [[Ygarlsed Sea]].
	\|tributaries = The [[Tulgann River]] flows into the Black River in southern Zengara.		\|tributaries = The [[Tulgann River]] flows into the Black River in southern Zengara.
	\|settlements = The Black River flows through both the cities of [[Khalvara]] in [[Velanos]], near its source, and [[Baal-Istra]] in [[Zengara]], before it drains into the [[Ugbarra Marsh]		\|settlements = The Black River flows through both the cities of [[Khalvara]] in [[Velanos]], near its source, and [[Baal-Istra]] in [[Zengara]], before it drains into the [[Ugbarra Marsh]].
	\|history = The Black River carries a dark spiritual resonance for the lands through which it flows. Legends claim the Black Mountains bleed, and the river is their slow dark blood, and that this is why no ritual has ever managed to make its water run clear. Fisherfolk of the lower river will not drink it unstrained, holding that to swallow the black silt is to swallow a little of the mountains' ancient grief, which settles in a man and never lifts. Every century or so, a flood comes down blacker than black, thick as pitch and cold as the deep stone, and that these black flood-years are remembered long after in Zengara, for the harvests that follow them are said to be either the richest in living memory or nothing at all.		\|history = The Black River carries a dark spiritual resonance for the lands through which it flows. Legends claim the Black Mountains bleed, and the river is their slow dark blood, and that this is why no ritual has ever managed to make its water run clear. Fisherfolk of the lower river will not drink it unstrained, holding that to swallow the black silt is to swallow a little of the mountains' ancient grief, which settles in a man and never lifts. Every century or so, a flood comes down blacker than black, thick as pitch and cold as the deep stone, and that these black flood-years are remembered long after in Zengara, for the harvests that follow them are said to be either the richest in living memory or nothing at all.
	\|etymology = The common name and the old Zengaran one say the same thing: the water is black. The Khalgann carries so heavy a burden of fine dark silt, ground from the stone of the [[Black Mountains]] at its source, that it never truly runs clear, not in the low water of high summer nor in the brown fury of the flood. In the giant-descended tongue of Zengara the river and the range that bears it share a root, and the Zengarans speak of them almost as one thing: the black mountains that bleed, and the black water that carries their darkness down to the sea.		\|etymology = The common name and the old Zengaran one say the same thing: the water is black. The Khalgann carries so heavy a burden of fine dark silt, ground from the stone of the [[Black Mountains]] at its source, that it never truly runs clear, not in the low water of high summer nor in the brown fury of the flood. In the giant-descended tongue of Zengara the river and the range that bears it share a root, and the Zengarans speak of them almost as one thing: the black mountains that bleed, and the black water that carries their darkness down to the sea.

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	\|article=Black River		The '''Black River''', known to the Zengarans as '''the Khalgann''', "the black water," is the great river of [[Zengara]] in eastern [[Gallorea]]. It rises among the [[Black Mountains]] far to the south, runs north past [[Velanos]] and down the length of Zengara, passes the capital of [[Baal-Istra]], and empties at last through the reed-fens of [[Ugbarra Marsh]] into the [[Ygarlsed Sea]]. It takes its name from its water, which runs dark with the silt it drags down out of the mountains and stains the coastal shallows brown for leagues beyond its mouth.<noinclude>
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	The '''Black River''', known to the Zengarans as '''the Khalgann''', "the black water," is the great river of [[Zengara]] in eastern [[Gallorea]]. It rises among the [[Black Mountains]] far to the south, runs north past [[Velanos]] and down the length of Zengara, passes the capital of [[Baal-Istra]], and empties at last through the reed-fens of [[Ugbarra Marsh]] into the [[Ygarlsed Sea]]. It takes its name from its water, which runs dark with the silt it drags down out of the mountains and stains the coastal shallows brown for leagues beyond its mouth.		{{River
	<noinclude>		\|name = Black River
	==~~Name==~~		\|alt_names = the Khalgann
	~~The common name and~~ the ~~old Zengaran one say the same thing: the water is black. The~~ Khalgann ~~carries so heavy~~ a ~~burden~~ of ~~fine dark silt~~, ~~ground from~~ the ~~stone of~~ the [[Black Mountains]] at ~~its source~~, ~~that it never truly runs clear, not~~ in the ~~low water of high summer nor in the brown fury of the flood. In the giant~~-~~descended tongue of~~ Zengara the river ~~and the range that bears it share a root~~, ~~and~~ the ~~Zengarans speak of them almost as one thing: the black mountains that bleed~~, ~~and the black water that carries their darkness down to the sea.~~		\|image = <!-- Sidebar - filename of a picture of the river -->
	=~~=Course==~~		\|map = <!-- Sidebar - filename of a map showing the river's course; if omitted, page is placed in the "Needs Map" Category -->
	The Black River gathers in the high valleys of the Black Mountains and comes down out of them as a fast, cold, dark torrent, running north past the herds and holds of [[Velanos]] on the upper reaches. As it descends into the lowlands of Zengara it broadens and slows, growing heavy and silt-laden, until by the time it passes [[Baal-Istra]] it is a wide and sluggish flood, more silt than speed. Below the capital it loses itself entirely: it comes apart in the black fens of [[Ugbarra Marsh]], dividing into a thousand shifting channels, and it is the silt it lays down there, over uncounted ages, that has built the bottomless floor of the marsh and given the coast its drowning maze of reeds.		\|source = High in the [[Black Mountains]] of central Gallorea
			\|mouth = The [[Ygarlsed Sea]] at [[Ugbarra Marsh]] in [[Zengara]]
			\|length = 735
			\|tributary_of = <!-- Sidebar - The main river this one feeds, if this is a tributary rather than a river in its own right; creates the "Tributaries" Category -->
			\|realm1 = [[Velanos]]
			\|realm2 = [[Zengara]]
			\|realm3 = <!-- Sidebar - A third realm the river flows through, if any -->
			\|realm4 = <!-- Sidebar - A fourth realm the river flows through, if any -->
			\|geography = The Black River gathers in the high valleys of the [[Black Mountains]] and comes down out of them as a fast, cold, dark torrent, running north past the herds and holds of [[Velanos]] on the upper reaches. As it descends into the lowlands of Zengara it broadens and slows as it is joined by the [[Tuigann River]], growing heavy and silt-laden, until by the time it passes [[Baal-Istra]] it is a wide and sluggish flood, more silt than speed. Below the capital it loses itself entirely: it comes apart in the black fens of [[Ugbarra Marsh]], dividing into a thousand shifting channels, and it is the silt it lays down there, over uncounted ages, that has built the bottomless floor of the marsh and given the coast its drowning maze of reeds.

	Thus the whole watercourse is a single dark thread from mountain to sea: the [[Black Mountains]] in the south, the Black River between, and [[Ugbarra Marsh]] where it drowns at the last into the [[Ygarlsed Sea]].		Thus the whole watercourse is a single dark thread from mountain to sea: the [[Black Mountains]] in the south, the Black River between, and [[Ugbarra Marsh]] where it drowns at the last into the [[Ygarlsed Sea]].
	==The ~~Lifeblood~~ of Zengara==		\|tributaries = The [[Tulgann River]] flows into the Black River in southern Zengara.
	For all its forbidding color, the Black River is the making of Zengara. It is the kingdom's spine and its highway, bearing the trade of the interior down to Baal-Istra and the sea, and the black silt it spreads across the lowlands in flood leaves behind the richest farmland in that part of Gallorea. The capital itself stands where the river meets the marsh, grown fat on the traffic that must pass its wharves, and the reed-folk of Ugbarra reckon the seasons by the river's rise and fall. A Zengaran will tell you, not wholly in jest, that his people are made of the same black water: that it runs in the fields, in the city, and in the blood.		\|settlements = The Black River flows through both the cities of [[Khalvara]] in [[Velanos]], near its source, and [[Baal-Istra]] in [[Zengara]], before it drains into the [[Ugbarra Marsh]
			\|history = The Black River carries a dark spiritual resonance for the lands through which it flows. Legends claim the Black Mountains bleed, and the river is their slow dark blood, and that this is why no ritual has ever managed to make its water run clear. Fisherfolk of the lower river will not drink it unstrained, holding that to swallow the black silt is to swallow a little of the mountains' ancient grief, which settles in a man and never lifts. Every century or so, a flood comes down blacker than black, thick as pitch and cold as the deep stone, and that these black flood-years are remembered long after in Zengara, for the harvests that follow them are said to be either the richest in living memory or nothing at all.
	~~==Legends~~==		\|etymology = The common name and the old Zengaran one say the same thing: the water is black. The Khalgann carries so heavy a burden of fine dark silt, ground from the stone of the [[Black Mountains]] at its source, that it never truly runs clear, not in the low water of high summer nor in the brown fury of the flood. In the giant-descended tongue of Zengara the river and the range that bears it share a root, and the Zengarans speak of them almost as one thing: the black mountains that bleed, and the black water that carries their darkness down to the sea.
	* That the Black Mountains bleed, and the river is their slow dark blood, and that this is why no ritual has ever managed to make its water run clear.		\|significance = For all its forbidding color, the Black River is the making of Zengara. It is the kingdom's spine and its highway, bearing the trade of the interior down to Baal-Istra and the sea, and the black silt it spreads across the lowlands in flood leaves behind the richest farmland in that part of Gallorea. The capital itself stands where the river meets the marsh, grown fat on the traffic that must pass its wharves, and the reed-folk of Ugbarra reckon the seasons by the river's rise and fall. A Zengaran will tell you, not wholly in jest, that his people are made of the same black water: that it runs in the fields, in the city, and in the blood.
	* That the fishers of the lower river will not drink it unstrained, holding that to swallow the black silt is to swallow a little of the mountains' old grief, which settles in a man and never lifts.		\|update_year= 2109
	* That in certain years the flood comes down blacker than black, thick as pitch and cold as the deep stone, and that these black flood-years are remembered long after in Zengara, for the harvests that follow them are said to be either the richest in living memory or nothing at all.		}}{{Fey_Source\|chapter= Geography\|article= Gazetteer}}[[Category:Geography]]{{NeedsMap}}</noinclude>
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The '''Black River''', known to the Zengarans as '''the Khalgann''', "the black water," is the great river of [[Zengara]] in eastern [[Gallorea]]. It rises among the [[Black Mountains]] far to the south, runs north past [[Velanos]] and down the length of Zengara, passes the capital of [[Baal-Istra]], and empties at last through the reed-fens of [[Ugbarra Marsh]] into the [[Ygarlsed Sea]]. It takes its name from its water, which runs dark with the silt it drags down out of the mountains and stains the coastal shallows brown for leagues beyond its mouth.
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==Name==
The common name and the old Zengaran one say the same thing: the water is black. The Khalgann carries so heavy a burden of fine dark silt, ground from the stone of the [[Black Mountains]] at its source, that it never truly runs clear, not in the low water of high summer nor in the brown fury of the flood. In the giant-descended tongue of Zengara the river and the range that bears it share a root, and the Zengarans speak of them almost as one thing: the black mountains that bleed, and the black water that carries their darkness down to the sea.
==Course==
The Black River gathers in the high valleys of the Black Mountains and comes down out of them as a fast, cold, dark torrent, running north past the herds and holds of [[Velanos]] on the upper reaches. As it descends into the lowlands of Zengara it broadens and slows, growing heavy and silt-laden, until by the time it passes [[Baal-Istra]] it is a wide and sluggish flood, more silt than speed. Below the capital it loses itself entirely: it comes apart in the black fens of [[Ugbarra Marsh]], dividing into a thousand shifting channels, and it is the silt it lays down there, over uncounted ages, that has built the bottomless floor of the marsh and given the coast its drowning maze of reeds.

Thus the whole watercourse is a single dark thread from mountain to sea: the [[Black Mountains]] in the south, the Black River between, and [[Ugbarra Marsh]] where it drowns at the last into the [[Ygarlsed Sea]].
==The Lifeblood of Zengara==
For all its forbidding color, the Black River is the making of Zengara. It is the kingdom's spine and its highway, bearing the trade of the interior down to Baal-Istra and the sea, and the black silt it spreads across the lowlands in flood leaves behind the richest farmland in that part of Gallorea. The capital itself stands where the river meets the marsh, grown fat on the traffic that must pass its wharves, and the reed-folk of Ugbarra reckon the seasons by the river's rise and fall. A Zengaran will tell you, not wholly in jest, that his people are made of the same black water: that it runs in the fields, in the city, and in the blood.

==Legends==
* That the Black Mountains bleed, and the river is their slow dark blood, and that this is why no ritual has ever managed to make its water run clear.
* That the fishers of the lower river will not drink it unstrained, holding that to swallow the black silt is to swallow a little of the mountains' old grief, which settles in a man and never lifts.
* That in certain years the flood comes down blacker than black, thick as pitch and cold as the deep stone, and that these black flood-years are remembered long after in Zengara, for the harvests that follow them are said to be either the richest in living memory or nothing at all.
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