sometimes small and sometimes large , kondrastibar at its greatest extent rose from the many-fingered shores of the coast , sprawled across the rich tropical delta of the river kron , marched over the dry but fertile plain of yuclo , groped through the soulful mists of the thousand-lakes region , scaled the cliffs and gorges of the hill country , and finally climbed the ever-steepening sides of the great mountain archonect , almost up to the tree-line .