River Rhône
Names: River RhôneRhôneLower RhôneRhône River
First appears in Book 1: The Many-Colored Land, chapter 28 (8)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: The Many-Colored Land
- Ch 28The party will travel down it by boat; upstream travel is not feasible, so caravans of chalikos and hellads carry goods north.
Book 2: The Golden Torc
- Ch 24The Rhône is a violent river clogged with landslides and rock piles, ending in a great gush that falls into a lake hidden under vapor.
Connections
- containsCastle Gatewayin the river's bottomlands
- containsDaraskdownriver near the Mediterranean
- includesla Glissade Formidable
- containsHarryriver boatman
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 24Harry revived and wrecked rapids run
The group revives torc-less Harry to pilot through rapids. Felice controls him, but panics at a falls; Harry breaks free and crashes the boat, which is damaged but survives.
- Book 2 · Ch 24Amerie and Felice at night watch
Felice propositions Amerie, who refuses and prays for her. Felice, shaken, regains some confidence. They then sight a Tanu Hunt searching for them across the river.
- Book 2 · Ch 24Passing the boats into the rapids
At dawn the party meets three boats waiting at a chute, passes them with Harry forced to wave, and enters the next twenty-kilometer rapids.
- Book 2 · Ch 24Harry dies under Felice's mental grip
Felice coerces skipper Harry through the rapids. He resists with a last surge of rage and dies, leaving the boat spinning in an eddy.
- Book 2 · Ch 24Felice flies the riverboat out of the eddy
Felice takes the wheel and lifts the boat with her PK, then flies it over the Rhône's terminal waterfall and the mist-covered lake. Amerie and the Indian Chief ask her to descend, and she does.