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Sources and Status
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...
The Reference Place
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 ...
The Grain of the World
Overview
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...
Figures of Speech
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...
The Exception of the Rift
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...
Light
The Ordinary Town
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...
What People Compare Things To
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...