1875-06-Onwards: A Watergarden in Firen
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Summary: As Dertan experiments on the engineering requirements for a major canal linking the river Undine (in Kaedon) with the River running into Lake Meldus (in Solizar) in the ruins of one of Firen's great inns and taverns, Elixane gradually transforms it into something beautiful.
Date: IC Date
Related: Dertan's Grand Canal Project
NPCs: NPC names, if relevant
Players:
Dertan  Elixane  

It starts out as an experiment. Taking form over a day here, an hour there, as Dertan tries to work out exactly how he’s going to make a waterway that connects the grand rivers of Tarris with those that run through Kaedon. An accident really. A project that was initially going to be nothing but pipes and channels that would be destroyed once the work was done. But steadily over the course of months, under the influence of Elixane’s artistic touch, the ruins of what was once a tavern gradually turns into so much more.

Water, supplied from the taverns old well, slowly makes its way through channels and moats to flood walled reservoirs set at various heights. Sometimes the water goes up. Sometimes it goes down. Sometimes it simply goes sidewards. But it always moves. Guided around the area by a variant upon variant of engineering trick. A good half of the tricks count as locks, especially as Dertan becomes more and more confident in his choice for the canal itself, but there are also water wheels like contraptions and fountain like pressure systems for counterpoint. Interesting, certainly, but hardly a garden.


It had started as an experiment. An hour here, a day there, as Elixane accompanied Dertan to his testing ground, watching him build his scale models, his experiments, seeing the possibilities that existed in the flows and waterways. Not for great things, perhaps, as he had planned, but for smaller, simpler things.

He had promised her a fountain which she had intended to install in the garden she was rejuvenating at Coningsburg, but as the experiment grew, Elixane found her own amusement, taking over each part of the waterworks, such as they were, as Dertan finished with them. Flowerbeds and waterfalls, fields and rivers, all created in perfect miniature. Moss and sweet grass and the bright green of ivy. But no flowers. This was a garden built in shades of green. It’s entertainment was in the sound of water flowing, the scent of rich life and soft loam, the soothing music of liquid on stone. A place for reflection as much as admiration.

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