The Wheel

The Veykar's moving military camp — a city of hide tents and bone stakes organised in concentric rings on the Deyune Steppe. Outermost: pits, latrines, stables, butcher-grounds, slave-pens, kitchens. Middle: soldiers' quarters and minor offices. Inner: command tents, the archives, the Draethan's quarters, and The Hall. The Wheel moved on the Veykar's command and stopped on it; entire seasons of the Steppe's history are recorded as "when the Wheel was at Karak" or "after the Wheel left Telmar." When the Veykar died, the Wheel scattered. The fire-circles of its old encampments are still findable in the Steppe's grass, and the Cartographic Society of Iterants has been quietly mapping them for two Loops.