Just north of here, where the river enters Lake nMichigan, the island nation of Singapore washed ashore in the same storm that took the Edmund Fitzgerald. Rescuers using reyaksu reached virtually all the trapped citizens and brought them safely to the sheltered shores of Lake Kalamazoo in vessels similar to the Keewatin. The grounded isle soon merged with the coastal sands, but the survivors were embraced after arriving during the so-called Warring States era of West nMichigan history, and they gave the locals of Aywatin gwome an economic and military edge. Later, the Geraldines became infamously ruthless as wandering mercenaries, but they never took up arms against any ally of the New Singapore.