Hearthborn
The Hearthlands
Children of crossroads, rivers, and old roads. Adaptability, trade, travel, scholarship, and the stubborn habit of making a home almost anywhere.
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Peoples & Homelands
Different roots. Shared skies.
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Eight peoples endured what should have ended the world.
They survived in different places, by different means, and they remember the Sundering in very different ways. Ask eight travelers what Katarra became after the world broke, and you may receive eight answers.
All of them may be true.
The Known World
Select a marked homeland to meet the people who shaped their lives there.
Eight Peoples of Katarra
Eight homelands · One broken world
Cinderkin
The Volcanic Highlands
Forged where the mountains never truly cooled. Craftsmanship, forge-clans, endurance, fierce passions, and a culture that sees transformation where others se...
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Tidewalkers
The Great Inland Waters
Where others see water, they see roads. Navigation, river law, trade routes, fisheries, patient councils, and an instinctive respect for what moves be...
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Aerie-Kin
The Skyspire Reach
Keepers of routes written across the sky. Communication, reliability, memory, aerial routes, and messenger traditions that can move news faster than arm...
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Deepstone Kin
The Ironspine Mountains
Oaths endure where sunlight does not. Duty, patience, memory, endurance, engineering, and promises treated with nearly architectural seriousness.
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Wychwood Sylvan
The Greywood
The forest survived. So did they. Preservation, growth, balance, adaptation, living settlements, and an unsettlingly close relationship with the...
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Duskkin
The Scar Ring
Watchers where the world never fully healed. Remembrance, vigilance, compassion, record-keeping, and a calm familiarity with dangers other peoples prefer n...
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Tuskari
The Southern Badlands
Strength is standing when the land says fall. Courage, practical survival, ritual challenge, clan loyalty, observation, and an earned contempt for assumptio...
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