Editing Survey Island (section)

==The Map Island==
The surface of the island was heavily landscaped and bore little to no natural features.  The lower plateau featured a shallow pond with large sharp rocks jutting out of the center at odd angles.  The plateau was surrounded by over a hundred [[wahrk]] tusks.  The purpose of these tusks was to intimidate the [[Rivenese]] who had a deep cultural fear of the large fish.  For this reason, Gehn often added tusks and other wahrk imagery to areas that he wished to keep the Rivenese away from.

[[File:Survey_island_schematic.png|thumb|The lower plateau features a map of the entire [[Age]].]]

Situated further along the plateau was another pond that acted as a map of the Age of [[Riven]] as a whole.  Five artificial mesas jutted up from the pond, each in the shape of one of Riven's five islands.  The mesas contained shallow pools of water, which could be heated from below, and [[Rivenese water|shaped into forms]] that roughly resembled the topography of the islands.

A fortress-like structure had been built long ago, which affronted a higher plateau.  One of the [[Riven daggers|five daggers of Riven]] was embedded in the top of the wall, causing a large crack to form.  Though hadn't caused the dagger to appear, he took advantage of the situation by building an elevator inside the crack in the wall.  Atop the higher plateau, accessible via the elevator, was a deep natural pond.  Gehn kept several [[Wahrk]] pets in this pond.  Along the surface of the pond was the island's [[firemarble dome]], and a round floating structure called the [[map room]].  The map room contained a device which could display small segments each of Riven's islands using a [[w:Pin Art|Pin Art]]-like relief.  The control panel for the map room could be found on a small catwalk that hung from the dagger, overlooking the lower plateau.