Valen Spur

A fortified trading city at the southern tip of the Steps where the grasslands narrow between rocky bluffs. Valen Spur controls the only viable overland route to the Varnhalt Frontier and charges steep tolls for the privilege. Its markets are louder and more diverse than those of Thorne Reach, though its people trust outsiders less. 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.