Kalpa

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The Kalpa (Kal. ‘road of the spirits’) is a major river in Elondor’s north, the traditional boundary between Geran and Aribel, and the homeland of the Kalparians.

Course

The river originates on the western side of the Mountains of Mōrya, half a day’s journey south of Katna. It exits the Lécaronian Reknaya at the Oshal Falls, crossing the Geranian Heath westward before forming an estuary at Kalpattu, entering the Kalparian Sea.

Cultural Significance

The Kalpa is one of only two major freshwater bodies on the Geranian Heath, beside Lake Tapakya and is of great cultural significance from the beginning of human settlement in the area, the Geranians and Early Aribelians. At the latest with the arrival of the Kattasians and the subsequent dispersion of the Geranians in the mid-2<superscript>nd</superscript> millennium B.E.B., it becomes