Torán's Creek is no more than a small
river originating on the east side of the snow-covered heights of the Chalbern
Peak, one of the prominent double summits of the Mithral Mountains in the
province of Manthria in the United Kingdom of Santharia (Southern Sarvonia). It
is known mainly for Norgerinth's Tomb, which it passes on its way down, and for
its spectacular Falls, though these don't have the water volume and height of
the nearby Ravenwing Falls. It joins the Rocky Moss Creek in Nepris not far away
from the coast. It is not known, if the name "Torán" derives from an eagle
roaming the Mithral Mountains, or if Torán's Creek is named after an
adventuresome inhabitant of the former Phris, which is now part of Nepris.
Just where the bridge crosses the Torán brook its
channel widens till it is about eleven peds broad when tossing over the edge.
The fall's beauty lies in the way in which nature formed the riverbed. At the
edge a flat, broad, but thin slab of rock protrudes about a ped farther than the
underlying structures of a slightly different rock. This allows the water to
fall without hindrance for more than a hundred and twenty peds. When the water
level drops in autumn, a jutting boulder rising from the middle of this flat
rock parts the waterfall into two separate ones.
Falling so smoothly over the edge, the water doesn't aerate much, not taking
much air in. When looking at the falls from the right angle, one can nearly see
the wall of rocks behind it, so clear and lucid it falls down. Therefore the
falls was also nicknamed "Veil Falls" by the locals.
At the foot of the falls just about twenty peds before it would reach the
ground, another strong slab of rock, this time about two peds thick, reaches out
for about three peds forming a kind of rim. The upper side is slightly hollowed
out to a basin by the always carving water, underneath it is supported by the
underlying rock, but still being more prominent.
Only in the last twenty peds when darting over the rim of the basin, the water
becomes more opaque, taking the white airy color familiar to us from other
falls. However, this basin can only be seen, when the water coming down the
mountain is running only sparsely, in spring or early summer it is hidden behind
the water masses.
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