Ironmark

The largest forge-town of the Ashen Spine — a smoke-stained settlement built around a working forge complex whose hammer-rhythm has, by guild record, never stopped for more than a single shift in eleven Loops. Ironmark supplies iron, steel, and finished work to every region west of the Glass Expanse; its forge guilds are the closest thing the Spine has to a government. The Cleaved has appeared inside the town's outer forges three times in living memory. The guilds keep records of every crack in the rock, every tunnel that opens overnight, and every apprentice who has gone quiet mid-conversation since the Fray reached the Spine — they keep those records in a vault no Luminous Fold Archivist has been allowed to read.