"They have found a perfect place to place a border at—we will barely need to defend it, and our soldiers will be free to fight elsewhere. It's so full of water that none of the pests that usually fight us live there. Instead, the scouts report about creatures that live only in or near water… And this water spans so far and wide away that only flying creatures could cross it. It will be too much water, even for giant beasts."
Bloodhero turned to the—painstakingly copied when the Council Chamber was moved to this room—wall map and gestured at it.
"It's so big that it wouldn't fit on this map if I wanted to draw it. We need a bigger map, Father. And a word to call this thing. It's not a lake and not a river."
I blinked for a moment, trying to imagine the picture Bloodhero painted…
