Region · 4 o'clock on the Dial
the Zahreth Spires
A cliff people. They see lightning as writing. They touch a storm only with permission.
the Ears of the Sky
- Geography
- East of the Arena stand needle-like limestone spires and giant sea cliffs. The Zahreth Arm is one of the six rivers born from the Arena. It plunges off the cliffs into the Sea of Clouds below. The people carve their homes into the cliffs. These homes are called eyries. Bridges of rope and bone link the eyries. Wind chimes and copper lightning rods are everywhere. The largest eyrie is Tel-Azra.
- Climate
- Windy and cold. Lightning season comes twice a year.
- Culture
- Wind Readers see lightning as writing in the sky, and they read it. Every child gets a bird name or a wind name. The Falconers are Devran's postal network. The letters they carry are sacred. No one reads them.
- Governance
- The Storm Council is made up of elder readers. Calling a storm requires a license. Whoever touches a storm without leave cuts off the sky mid-word. The punishment is exile.
- Faith
- Sky Script. Dem is time in solid form in Devran. The crackle of Dem in the air is a letter the Arena writes to the world. Any script erased before it is read is a loss.
- Economy
- Weather prophecy, falcon post and fulgurite. Fulgurite is Dem glass made by lightning.
Champions from this land
Landmarks
Tel-Azra Eyrie
The largest eyrie. The Storm Council and the lightning archives are here.
the Sea of Clouds
An endless layer of cloud at the foot of the cliffs. No one knows what lies beneath.
the Falcon Ledges
Rock ledges hung with wind chimes. The Falconers launch their birds from here.
Factions
the Storm Council
The elder readers. Since the Skip, they have forbidden reading the lightning.
the Falconers
The guild of couriers and hunters. They also hunt the Caught who escape. The Caught are creatures trapped in the Arena's loop.
the Lost Wind
A rebel group. They want the storms set free to finish what they are saying.
Relations with neighbors
GurhalAncient kinship
An ancient friendship: sky and hearth.
the Free City of TavellinTrade
Tavellin buys prophecy. Now it wants a bottled storm.
Askaran wants the falcon post for its army.
HesperraFriend
An old friendship between watchers of the sky.
the Olumre WealdNeutral
Few ties beyond the post.