Khelt Crossing

The only reliable ford across the Khelt River for fifty miles in either direction. A permanent rope bridge and a handful of stone-footed structures give it more permanence than most Deyune settlements. Sarn Flats Settlement to the south and Orun Field Camp to the northwest both depend on it for overland trade. On the Deyune Steppe, this site is one of the points where the Long Wind, the clan-roads, and the old Karak geometries meet. Time Instability runs heavy here — distances and seasons rarely agree between settlements. The Veykar's old reach passed through or near sites like this; some bear the Wheel's scars in the soil, others have been letting the grass grow back over them for generations.