Known For
A People Shaped by Place
Duty, patience, memory, endurance, engineering, and promises treated with nearly architectural seriousness.
Chapter II
Deepstone Kin
The Ironspine Mountains · Oaths endure where sunlight does not.
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The Ironspine Mountains
The Ironspines appear immovable from the surface. Beneath them lies another world entirely. The Deepstone Kin built holds where generations may pass without sunlight touching their halls.
What travelers know
Public knowledgeThe Homeland
The Ironspine Mountains
Underground kingdoms, ancient holds, deep caverns, stone roads, and subterranean rivers make up only the mapped portion of the Ironspines.
CapitalDûr Kharum
Whispered, Not Proven
There Is More Here
The Deep Places are sealed for reasons younger generations are rarely told in full.
A Traveler's Ledger
Before You Enter The Ironspine Mountains
Common knowledge collected from merchants, guides, guild records, and people sensible enough to come back.
What Matters Here
How They Govern
Clan-holds derive authority from oaths, lineage, service, and long-term responsibility. Hold-Oaths can bind families, guilds, or whole settlements for generations.
Name Worth Knowing
The Hold-Oath Tradition
Things That Kill Careless Travelers
Impossible tunnelsUnmapped citiesGravity distortionsSystem anomalies
This is enough to begin a journey. It is not enough to survive every one.
The Codex does not tell every story. Customs, settlements, rivalries, histories, hazards, and secrets are meant to be encountered in Katarra—not exhausted on a reference page.