The Long Fire

A massive communal hearth house at the heart of Thorne Reach, open to any traveler who can contribute a story or a song. The fire at its center has not gone out in living memory. Drinks are bartered, not bought, and the house rules are carved into the hearthstones in seven dialects. 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.