IsleOfJade/TwoRiversSurrounds
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Two Rivers, The Golden Delta, and the Marshlands of Undying Twilight
The Master Li’s School of Enlightenment and Martial Arts is situated on the edge of the tiny village of Two Rivers, more of a meeting place for nearby farmers, fishermen, and merchants than a full-fledged town. The town itself lies nestled in the fertile marshlands between two waterways, serving as a small oasis of civilization set apart from the endless fields of the Golden Delta and the bandit and ghost-infested marshland nearby.
Without any real type of institutionalized government, the townspeople depend on Master Li and the students of the school to keep the peace and to settle disputes. In general, the town and the school work together in harmony, despite occasional trouble from undisciplined novices or drunken townsfolk. Life in Two Rivers is quiet and simple, and the residents wouldn't have it any other way.
The Village of Two Rivers
The Golden Delta
The Golden Delta is the name given to the region between the Silworm River and the River Xi as they pass into the Inner Sea. It is a large, triangular territory (roughly 10 square miles) predominantly made up of fertile farmland and uncultivated fields on rolling hills of gold, yellow, and orange. Many smaller water ways spread out like fingers from two large rivers, forming a natural system of irrigation channels that support the vast crops that are cultivated here but that also support a large and diverse flora and fuana that can be dangerous to the farmers and villagers of the Delta.
The Golden Delta lies on the sourthern part of the Isle of Jade, and is entirely within the Qin Xian (the Qin Province, or the traditional lands held by the House of Qin). It is officially administered and controlled by the House of Qin from their seat in the town of Tien's Landing, and with the blessing of Lord Sun Hai. Because Tien's Landing lies outside the Delta and the House of Qin is only concerned with the Delta lands and its people as a source of tax income and trade resource (the crops of the Delta account for some 30% of the food consumed and traded from the Isle), its direct administration of the region is concentrated only in a few towns, leaving the rest of the region as a series of small villages and farming communities that are essentially self-governed and protected (such as Two Rivers). The civilized life enjoyed by the noble houses and the city folk seems very far away as far as the people of the Delta are concerned. Almost as far away as the Blessed Isle that holds the culture and people the nobles of the Isle of Jade admire and emulate.
