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Message: <blockquote data-quote="haakon1" data-source="post: 5359918" data-attributes="member: 25619">I'm not sure if it's mentioned or not.  I'm posting all this offhand without looking at the map or the folio myself.  I assumed it from the map, but it's possible it never said so specifically.In the West, I believe the Tuflik River flows down from the Fals Gap region (between Thornward in Bissel and Molvar in Ket) to the Dramidj Ocean, in the middle-north of the Baklunish region.  IIRC, there's also a river draining a small lake at the "navel of the world" in the Dry Steppes.In general, though, the West is dry.  Which makes sense for a Central Asian/Middle Eastern culture.  And the southwest is bone dry -- the Sea of Dust is a (post-nuclear, IMHO) wasteland of desert, following an ancient war, in a mountainous basin like Great Salt Lake in the US.What's odd is, the areas to the West of the mountains are dry, while those to the East are wet.  That doesn't usually happen in geography I'm familiar with.  I live in Washington state, and the prevailing westerlies dump rain on the Olympics and the coast, but the eastern half of the state is near desert, in the rain shadow of the Cascade Range.  I assume that why areas like Keoland aren't deserts is that the prevailing winds there sweep up from the Azure Sea . . . kind of like how China is not a desert, even though Xinjiang/Sinkiang, Mongolia, etc. to its west are -- it gets rain from the South China Sea instead of from "prevailing Westerlies" like we're used to.Which either makes the Greyhawk map stupid, or brilliant and unexpected.  I choose the latter interpretation.Fine.  Let's not quibble about that fine distinction!</blockquote>

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