Editing Talk:Shandar River (section)

== The Deyjan Lake and the Shandar ==

To centralize the discussion, here are the previous takes.

[[Talk:Search_for_a_Killer]] ([[User:Legate|Legate]]'s suggestion about the lake)

[[User_talk:Legate#Shandar_River]] (my response)

Summing up my analysis by the second link, I am fairly certain that the Shandar the body of water from [[Search for a Killer]] isn't the huge AvLee-Deyja lake. Said lake ''may'' be a part of the river's system, but that's open for interpretation (the Shandar may well be localized within western AvLee, while being connected to the sea).

But even if the big lake is connected to the Shandar, the scenario appears to takes place further to the west from it (just as the shaded campaign map region indicates), on the contested Avlee-Deyja border in that area. The texts do describe that body of water as a river, with currents and such, which wouldn't really fit with it being actually a lake that is connected to a river. Moreover, while there is some resemblance, the shape of the body of water in [[Search for a Killer]] doesn't fully match the big AvLee-Deyja.

Also, the plot doesn't really involvle any wide front in northern Deyja, it's presented as a rather local border conflict. Plus, this scenario being in western AvLee does fit well with [[To Strive, To Seek]] being somewhere near (by a tributary of the Sandar) and around the AvLee-Erathia border.

It appears that the Shandar isn't represented on the H3 campaign maps, as is the case with the [[Steadwick#Gallery|huge lake which Steadwick is on]]. --[[User:XEL|XEL]] ([[User talk:XEL|talk]]) 11:27, 19 August 2025 (UTC)

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Shandar River.png| For reference - [[User:Legate|Legate]]'s original interpretation
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