Known For
A People Shaped by Place
Remembrance, vigilance, compassion, record-keeping, and a calm familiarity with dangers other peoples prefer not to name.
Chapter II
Duskkin
The Scar Ring · Watchers where the world never fully healed.
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The Scar Ring
Nearest the wound left by the Sundering live those most changed by it. The Duskkin tend their vigil-houses beneath a sky where the Scar's influence can still be felt.
What travelers know
Public knowledgeThe Homeland
The Scar Ring
Necrotic zones, vigil settlements, observation outposts, forbidden ruins, and Scarfront territory surround the most dangerous wound in Katarra.
CapitalVeyrhold
Whispered, Not Proven
There Is More Here
The Scar is still active. The Duskkin know that better than anyone.
A Traveler's Ledger
Before You Enter The Scar Ring
Common knowledge collected from merchants, guides, guild records, and people sensible enough to come back.
What Matters Here
How They Govern
Community life centers on Vigil Houses—part temple, hospice, archive, and civic center—rather than distant rulers.
Name Worth Knowing
The Vigil Houses
Things That Kill Careless Travelers
UndeadNecrotic stormsTemporal distortionScar creatures
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.