It didn't help that the northern side of the Riverlands had suffered greatly - just like the Neck, it had risen up, and with the source of the Green Fork sitting on the other side of the Channel, the land had turned hilly, dry, and barren. Even the surrounding forest and shrubbery were thinning, and most had gone half-rotten or dry from the severe lack of water. Even smallfolk were sparse - this was their second day in the Riverlands, and they had not met more than a handful of impoverished peasants who were making their way southward towards the lusher parts of the Riverlands. Abandoned hamlets and villages were a common sight.