Lake Honrich (Riften) Treva River, and water flow

[Mebantiza]

In SSE, the water in Lake Honrich flows east, as is the Treva River. What is jarring to the eye, is the lake itself, is set to flow like a river. Even around Riften itself, which should be relatively calm and placid, is not. The entire lake looks like a east flowing river. Even if we accept things as they are now, the Treva river is far too small in make the entire lake surface act as it does.

 

Yet, UESP wiki has this to say

 

Lake Honrich is a lake in the eastern Rift, immediately southwest of Riften. It is drained by the Treva River and was named Lake Honnith in the First Era. Goldenglow Estate occupies a cluster of islands in the middle of the lake.

 

Drained, not fed. In game, the opposite is occurring. If the Treva River is feeding the lake, it would flow eastward (which is what is occurring now in game), Draining the lake, would mean the water is flowing outward from the lake (West)

 

This implies the river is supposed to flow East to West, and the lake feeds the river in the direction of Ivarstead,

 

Further the HearthWood Mill water wheel is rotating in the 'wrong' direction. (counter-clockwise) But if UESP description is accepted as correct, then the waterwheel is actually turning in the correct direction, its the direction of the water that is 'wrong'.

 

I was using Sparrowprinces WATER mod, but uninstalled it to test this.

Edited February 28, 2017 by Mebantiza

[Urtho]

Either a mod conflict or error due to the fact that it didn't include the updated shaders for water flow added in the SSE by Update.ESM or an oversight by the developers when making the SSE itself meaning that they didn't "turn" or position the water flow correctly or some combination of these.

[Arthmoor]

It's a bug. All the flow markers are backward in that river right up until the bridge in Ivarstead where someone suddenly realized they needed to make water flow toward the falls, not away from them.