"In the deep, dark hills of Eastern Falyndar,
That's where they spake the treasure lie,
And I read on the bridge,
Carved into a fresh skull,
You Won't Leave The Jungle Alive..."-Southern Kalea folk song lyrics
Much of the border between Kalea and Falyndar (if the term "border" is even accurate) is dominated by an average-looking river, beginning in the high hills and draining into the Western Ocean. There is but one real bridge across it. The Kalean people refer to it mostly as "the bridge", simply because they don't have much cause to ever use it. For centuries, perhaps even before the Valterran, there has been an unspoken and (mostly) unbroken agreement between the two nation-continents.
Sons of Kalea stay in Kalea, and the Children of Myri will do the same. Whom exactly built the bridge, given that rule, is a mystery to both regions. No-one remembers. But it's clear at a glance whom has been tending to it for a long time...
Skulls line the top of it. Whitened and polished limb bones are laid across the cobbles so that little stone is visible anymore. Rib cages are in the walls. But all these gruesome hallmarks of the Myrian race have one thing in common: they are on their side of the river. The Kalean side is nothing but carved, weathered stone. There are no guardians there, for what do the Myrians need them for, what with their hostile Jungle beyond it? Or the Kaleans, most of whom have never seen a Myrian and even whose historians would struggle to find a record of the savages ever crossing into the barbarian lands.
Barbarian. That is the proper word, perhaps. Because the bridge's name in the tongue of the Myrian's means, essentially, the beginning of light and civilization (as they understand it). The Myrians pity and mistrust the races beyond their Jungle as barbarians, and the name reflects that opinion.
Roughly translated, it means "The Brim Of Her Light". Every so often, a wayward hunting party of very, very stupid band of explorers will vanish... and despite no traces being found, the skulls and bones of the Bridge will swell by a few more...
