Daggershard Island

The island of Daggershard Island is a teeming microcosm that is dominated by a dual ecosystem. Marking the outer edge of the deltaic island are brackish tidal marshes that are shaped by the outflow of the river at low tide and the waves of the ocean during high tide. The marsh grasses and shrubs lends stability to the island and allow it to remain relatively constant regardless of the wave and river modifications. The outer rim of the island is in a state of flux with water or sediment moving across the land eroding and creating land in something approaching a balance of no net change. The state of flux that the outer edge of the island experiences however creates dangerous spots of unstable ground that appear and disappear at random. Those that transverse the islands refer to these spots as quicksand, however, drowning in the highly mobile sediment is anything but quick.

The vegetation does grant the island a semblance of stability that allows the second ecosystem within the interior of the island to thrive and the warm climate of being near the Daiobi Desert promotes a thick cypress marsh with numerous hot springs doting the island. The interior of the island is much more stable than the outer edge, however, the stability is no less wet. The cypress trees that grant a bit of cohesion to the land surface making avenues that could be traveled are broken up by often vast bogs of floating plants on open water, which are too deep to cross easily. Many marsh and swamp dwelling creatures make their home among Daggershard Island, however, an in depth exploration of the rather large island has never been conducted.

An anomalous ridge of gravel and sand bisects the island, allowing for the only easy passage across the island, likely a remnant of the coalition. This ridge of gravel and sand meet a bridge at either end, giving further credence that this path was likely constructed at some point long ago.