The Deyune Steppe

The vast wind-swept eastern grassland — called the Barren Reach or the Long Wind by those who live on it. No cities, no kings: only the land, the clan, and the weather. The Deyune Steppe was the Veykar's domain. From the moving stone-and-bone camp of The Wheel he stitched together an empire by the blade and ruled it from The Hall, served by the Draethan and ultimately undone by the silent cook known only as The Girl With the Scar. Before the Veykar the Steppe was an older country still: the Karak stones at the Old Karak Stones site and the Standing Teeth predate any clan memory and align with Pattern geometries the Luminous Fold's surveyors cannot fully resolve. Time Instability is severe here — entire seasons can pass between two settlements without agreement on how many.