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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Conaill" data-source="post: 1519855" data-attributes="member: 1264">Looks a lot better. Well, apart from the river that flows all along the length of the Hyberiae Peninsula, of course. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Another thing to keep in mind: Mountains do not *create* rivers! It seems like anywhere you have a mountain, you feel the need to have a river starting there. Mountains don't necessarily get any more precipitation than any other spot on your map, so they don't necessarily "generate" rivers (with some exceptions, such as snowcapped mountains or mountains where one side gets much more rainfall than the other due to tradewinds). Mountains do tend to delineate river basins (i.e. the area across which all the rainfall will drain into the same river), and rivers will tend to point away from mountains simply because they flow downhill. (Note: What is considered the "source" of a river is often fairly arbitrary. When you follow a river uphill, it will branch multiple times, spreading out into a network of little streamlets. Sometimes one of these streamlets is significantly larger than the others, but not necessarily. As close to the mountain peaks as you draw them, they may be less than a feet or two across, while the river may be hundreds of yards wide at it's delta. )</blockquote>

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