Step Gate Station

The formal entry point into the Deyune Steps from the south, where the grasslands begin in earnest. Step Gate Station collects no toll but keeps a detailed census of everyone who passes through, a practice begun centuries ago and maintained by tradition rather than authority. 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.