Karak Camp

The oldest semi-permanent encampment on the Steps, raised where three dry riverbeds converge. Karak families return here each season to repair their yurts and trade salted meats with riders from Tovin Encampment further east. The stones in the camp center are worn smooth by generations of council fires. 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.