Waterways
Waterways is the blanket term encompassing the activities that rely on Myrken Wood's rivers, streams and lakes. These include Fishing, Shipping, and Travel. In Myrken Wood, there are four major rivers - the West Mavoiir, East Mavoiir, Posehabnak and Sagpa Rivers - and three major lakes - Silver Lake, Tewllyn Lake, and Lake Mavoiir. Due to this, Waterway work is always in demand, and much of Myrken Wood's shipping is done by river, with Myrkentown itself being situated on the shore of Silver Lake.
Fishing
Anyone with the time, inclination, and a line or trap may catch a fish or two for supper. Most of Myrken Wood's fisheries are situated on the shores of the region's lakes: Shawburn on Tewllyn Lake, Myrkentown on Silver Lake, and Quagside on the tidal estuary of the Posehabnak River, which shipped upstream to Foggy Bottom to be pickled, packaged, and taken to market. There are also various industrious individuals that fish all along the rivers and streams for rarer catches and roe. Foggy Bottom, at spring and at fall, becomes an attraction with the running of sturgeon and salmon, with workers migrating upriver in order to have a chance to make some quick coin.
Transportation
Myrken Wood's roads are of variable quality - while effort is made to keep main thoroughfares like the North Passage Down traversable, maintenance of secondary roads most often falls to those who rely upon these routes for their livelihoods - woodsmen, farmers, herders and the like. Many of these roads are thus deeply rutted and often impassably muddy for part of the year. Fortunately Myrken Wood's rivers and lakes provide a faster, more reliable and more comfortable means of transporting passengers and cargo throughout the province. Settlements along Myrken's waterways rely upon river traffic for a good part of their economy. Teams of horses and oxen (or sometimes even local youths) wait at outposts along most major waterways to haul vessels upstream for a fee. Meanwhile Myrkentown's location on the shore of Silver Lake has established the it as the region's main interchange between road and river traffic.
- Ostmere, Erlkynwold, and Lindock lie along the West Mavoiir River, and are the major shipping outposts between Myrken Wood and Amasynia. Erlkynwold, though almost unreachable by overland routes, serves as an important trading post between Myrkentown's merchants and the inhabitants of the elven enclave deep in the Western Woods.
- Many more small settlements provide similar storage, hauling, and travel services along the banks of the Posehabnak River.
