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Names taken from the work of a founding ancestor. They are Creole words. Line name Meaning Bahariji fisher Majitunga water finder Motokazi geothermal engineer Tulanga builder Shandaji trader Siriji keeper of secrets, Archivist Kinaji teacher Tibaji healer Nond...

Names that mark the home of the line. They use Dan-, from the Hausa word for "child of". It does not change with gender. Dan-Bahari, Dan-Birni, Dan-Harmatan, Dan-Liko, Dan-Bukal, Dan-Patag, Dan-Angataa, Dan-Liwanag Nomads and people of small settlements often ...

A few families keep the lines of both parents, joined with a hyphen: Kamau-Chen. This is most common in the Elder lineage.

The Compendium describes how Duskara works. This Gazetteer says where things are. It gives every named place a position, a name, and a short entry, so that distances and travel times agree across the stories, the games and the lore. Each entry carries a status...

This book is about the ordinary day on the Living Edge: what a person sees, hears, smells and touches between one bell and the next, what the hands do without thought, and what people feel about it. The Compendium describes how Duskara works, and the Gazetteer...

A statement that repeats canon carries the mark of its source. Mark Source (C03) Compendium, with the number of the chapter (G) Duskaran Gazetteer (H) Duskaran Language Handbook (W) Weatherworking Guilds, in worldbuilding/ (N) The Weight of Wind: chapters 1 to...

Unless a section says otherwise, the Daybook describes a town of the heartland, in the nightward half of the Central band: cool, windy and grey, with enough water. The chapter The Four Lands and the Two Edges gives the differences. The chapter Under the Night ...

On the surface of Duskara everything has a direction, and the direction does not change. What Comes from Goes to Light The day side Heat The day side Wind at the ground The night side The day side Water The ice of the night side The salt flats of the Dayward E...

People talk in the grain of the world. Saying Meaning It went dayward It is lost or wasted and will not come back. Water that reaches the salt does not return. To go nightward for it To take the hard way; to go to the source of a matter. Upwind of it Before it...

In the rift of the heartland the river and the cold current of the floor run along the belt, not across it. Heartlanders are the only Duskarans who see water go sideways for a long distance. A person from another region who comes to the Bahari stands and looks...

Unless a section says otherwise, what follows is true of a town of the heartland, in the nightward half of the Central band: cool, windy and grey, with enough water. Other places differ in degree more than in kind. The Four Lands and the Two Edges gives the di...

A Duskaran compares things to what they know: water in a channel (slack, current, set, weir); loads (to carry, to bear, to give way); the wind (lee, lean, line, side-on); counting (short, over, a tally that does not close); cloth, knots and cord; the grain (to...