The Riverland is the narrow valley of the River Silver through the Snowthorns. The banks of the river are the site of a large number of paired Keeps that face each other across the Silver, relics of strained past relationships between nations; most recently, over a thousand years ago, between the kingdoms of Bashti and Hathir, but the foundations are much older than that and have a deep connection to the land.

About a thousand years ago, the area was gifted to the Kencyrath by the Kingdoms after a cataclysmic series of earthquakes changed the course of the Silver completely, and political turmoil at home reduced the will to maintain the ancient rivalry. Since then, it has been the home of the major Kencyr houses.