Eight hexes northwest, two north of Alakran.
Like the Lake of "Vampires," this lake is an overflow for the irrigation waters of the Rows of Muttra. It is less accessible to the Road of Flowers, so its perils are less evident. But by common report it is the watering and breeding place of a population of poisonous snakes, the black and white striped dipsas serpents to be precise. Tiny and hard to see, the dipsas' bite, rarely felt, brings death through a great thirst and consuming of the vitals with choleric humor. Indeed, just as the mosquito-ridden Pulka'al is dotted with the remains of the dead, so this nameless "Lake of Thirst" has within eyesight always one or two corpses of unfortunate man or beast who have rushed there to take their last desperate drink.
Unfortunately for human assassins, the venom of the dipsas decays rapidly and is useless an hour after bring removed from the creature's fangs. Only the live creature will do, and there are many recorded cases of these easily concealed serpents being used for surreptitious murder.
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