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River of Echoes
The River of Echoes was mentioned before in "Death's Dark Shadow". In 2236, the Tilean explorer Pasolini discovered a tunnel that connected the River Soll with the River Cristallo. He may have named the whole stretch (both rivers) as the River of Echoes, but I'd guess the name now more likely refers to the underground portion. The village of Kreutzhofen (detailed extensively in "Death's Dark Shadow") gets most of it's Tilean wine trade through the connection... I think it's safer than trying to bring wine up through the Yetzin valley.
There's a whole ruined city down there underneath the Vaults at the source of both rivers, but it's largely unexplored (both in print and the in-game history). As I recall, there's an open invitation to the GM in "Death's Dark Shadow" to use the ruins to stage their own dungeon crawls.
The Lichmaster sourcebook was also set pretty much on top of the same region. The Doomstones campaign also begins nearby in the Winter's Teeth pass.
(My current WFRP2 campaign is headed for the village of Kreutzhofen. Coincidence...? Hah!)
As for the Arcane College thing... that sounds very odd, since there are several very well-known arcane colleges outside of Altdorf, have been for centuries. In fact, when Emperor Magnus the Pious asked the elves to help repel the first incursion of Chaos, the capitol of the empire at that time was Nuln, and I'm pretty sure the Eldritch University of Nuln and the Elemental Colleges predate the Arcane Colleges in Altdorf. Hopefully the new Realms of Sorcery book will help clear that up.
The Gazetteers may be an update of the material that appeared in "Death on the Reik/River Life on the Empire"... which admittedly is only useful if your party is operating a river boat. And yes, we're still quite pissed that it got sunk during that whole Wittenstein thing.
The sewer map for Bogenhafen... oh lord, my old WFRP group spent the entire Enemy Within campaign carrying around that stupid three-legged goblin pelvis... got to be worth something to somebody, right?
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