'At present, the border between us and the South - dominated by Nilfgaard - is demarcated, as you can see, by the Yaruga River. It constitutes an obstacle which is practically insurmountable. It hardly ever freezes over, and during the rainy season it can carry so much water that its bed is almost a mile wide. For a long stretch, here, it flows between precipitous, inaccessible banks, between the rocks of Mahakam . . .'
'The land of dwarves and gnomes?'
'Yes. And so the Yaruga can only be crossed here, in its lower reaches, in Sodden, and here, in its middle reaches, in the valley of Dol Angra . . .'
And it was exactly in Dol Angra, that inci— Incident?'
'Wait. I'm just explaining to you that, at the moment, no army could cross the Yaruga River.
Both accessible valleys, those alo
