Azh River

The Azh River, also called the Amari River, the Jajazh River, or the River of Flowing Memory, is a major south-flowing river in the western reaches of the subcontinent of Svath. The Azh River's total course is more than 17,300 stadia, making it one of the longest rivers in the subcontinent. It primarily flows through the land of the Thousand Cities, Amarisar, from which it gets one of its names. Rising in the high Hithim plateau in the vicinity of Lake Chardakar, the river runs a course through the Ladakh region of Mara, towards Valkas and then flows in a southerly direction along the entire length of the Majpolis of Talas, in Amarsar to merge into the Sea of Tempests near the port city of Gaeta in Vernus.

History
The Azh River, called by the original inhabitants of its wash the Jajazh, was a vital part of the formation of civilization in antiquity in the Near East. Despite occasionally overrunning its banks, the Azh is in general terms quite placid and floods at regular intervals, a facet of its snow-fed characteristic from high Hithim. This allowed the early hunter-gatherer societies that have existed in the region for over fifteen thousand years to depend upon the wealth of vegetation and wild grains (such as Summuz and Malat) that grew in the many tributaries and the floodplains of the Azh itself. Eventually, the growing dependence of increasing population sizes in the folk of the area on these food sources led to the construction of canals and irrigation channels, even before the first recorded permanent dwellings in the Azh River Valley. No permanent civilization is recorded until the time of the Zhoongen civilization, nonetheless, but the Zhoongen profited immensely from the river's bounty and diverted it for myriad uses in their sewers, agriculture, and even milling efforts. After the fall of the Zho civilization, their descendants in the Thousand Cities similarly depended on the Azh River for much of the basis of their culture. It has been speculated that the generally benevolent bent of the Amari religion grew out of the seemingly benign nature of the Azh, only rarely bringing death and destruction to the peoples that lived along its placid waters.