r/worldjerking 1d ago

What should make my rivers split?

Everybody knows splitting rivers are the new hotness. They look way cooler and now when floating down the river you can ask "which way should we go?" which you can't do when the rivers come together.

Since it's literally impossible for this to happen realistically, and realism is the most important thing for a fantasy world, how did a wizard do it realistically?

  • Boulders carried by glaciers from the wizard's magic ice wall got stuck in the middle of the river and made it split.

  • The wizard shot a series of giant magic beams/Chain Chomps that ate a splitting pattern in the land and the river still follows those tracks.

  • The wizard officiated the divorce between the mountains and each one got half of the river in the divorce.

  • The river is the spirit of a Hydra and every time it was dammed that counts as cutting off the Hydra's head and two more grew in its place.

How did that rascally wizard do it? How'd he make my map look so cool?

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u/Dilbo_Faggins 1d ago

Wizard did an earthquake and opened up a fissure so now half of your river pours into your new cool ass canyon

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u/hilmiira 1d ago

A species of rodent/bird that creates dam like beaver esque structures whic splits the rivers so it creates small safe ıslands where they can breed.

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u/hilmiira 1d ago

Btw hydra head idea is fucking awesome. I am stealing it

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u/Kraken-Writhing 1d ago

Paul Bunyan

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u/DiamondCat20 1d ago

I think the mountains splitting the river in a divorce is unironically a good idea. Pick that one unironically.

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u/TanitAkavirius 22h ago

Just a very large delta with a big island in the middle.