Ashfall Crossing

Built at the junction of two ancient migration routes, Ashfall Crossing is the closest thing the Deyune has to a crossroads town. Volcanic ash from the distant Ashen Spine occasionally dusts its rooftops, giving the settlement its name. Merchants from Nerin Post and Vask Hollow converge here during trade season. 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.