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Also exhilarating is the River of Echoes. This is a three-hundred mile long river that flows beneath the mountains in the south, to Tilea (pseudo-Italy in this world's vaguely European continent). This is a new bit of Warhammer world fluff to me and it immediately made me want to know more, to read the story where it first appeared, to ride one of the trade barges that bring silks and rice up from Tilea into the Empire, bowing my head in fear and amazement as the river first passes beneath the rock, wondering who could have built it and when - the Dwarfs? the hated, semi-mythical Skaven? some race even more ancient and now forgotten?
The River is grandiose, weird and full of story potential: it's also badly botched. When I say that I "immediately" wanted to unfold its stories and plumb its potential, I have to add the caveat that this was only on page 95, when we learn that the river does indeed run underground for its whole course - which wasn't mentioned when it first appeared on page 6 (by the way, it's only one-hundred fifty miles long on the later page, having dribbled away half its length somewhere in the intervening chapters: but never mind). Not only has lousy, lazy editing held me up for nearly ninety pages in my quest for adventure, but the writing team themselves never seem to have realised what a great idea they have under their hands here.
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I'm not sure, because I never could bring myself to buying the supplement, but I think that the River of Echoes was first mentioned in the WFRP1 adventure supplement "Death's Dark Shadow". So if you want to see some adventures using this river, you may want to try and find this supplement.