THE LORE · THE NORTHERN RAMPART
The Stoneborn
Short, broad, deep-voiced folk of the Northern Rampart who quarry the bones of the dead Imperium and the deep stone the Karth swallowed. They trust worked metal over any spell — whatever quickens lowland spellcraft finds no purchase in granite, and none in them.
The Stoneborn live where the Vale turns to mountain, in galleries cut under the Northern Rampart and along the gorges the Karth carved. They raised the chain-works and bridge-stones at Karth Bridge, keep the best forges north of the river, and reckon the Imperium's leaning column-fields a quarry the old empire was good enough to leave standing. Stone doesn't move for pretty words, and neither do they — whatever it is that haunts the lowlands and quickens a caster's hand finds little purchase in Stoneborn blood, which dulls magic for and against them alike. They are short and slab-built, clannish, slow to move and slower to forgive, and they would sooner hand you a good blade than a good word.
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The Karth Deep
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references
- →The Karth Deep — The Stoneborn cut their galleries under the Northern Rampart along the deep stone the Karth swallowed.
- →Karth Bridge — Stoneborn raised the chain-works and bridge-stones at Karth Bridge — the best stonework north of the river.
- ←The Iron Cantors — The Iron Cantors are Stoneborn smiths who trust worked metal over any spell.
- ←The Deepcut Pans — The Deepcut Pans mine with Stoneborn crews who reckon the Imperium's columns a quarry left standing.
- →Caer Vallen — To the Stoneborn the Imperium's leaning column-fields are a quarry the old empire was kind enough to leave standing.
- ←The Elder Age — The Stoneborn cut the Rampart for the marrow-stone the Imperium later mortared its walls with.
- ←The Stonewright Moot — The Moot is the Stoneborn craft-institution above the clans — its charter is the race's own creed made law: build true, owe true, forgive slow.
- ←Thurig Wrightmaster — Thurig is Stoneborn to the marrow — slab-built, dry, grudge-keeping, and flat-out unmoved by gods or the Old Reckonings' tidy wheel.
- ←Crag Bear — The Stoneborn make coats of Crag Bear pelts — hunting them is the mark of a serious Stoneborn delver.
- ←The Coldhand Pans — The Coldhand Pans are Stoneborn — the magic-dull mountain folk for whom the Imperium's old machinery is dead metal rather than a compulsion, which is why they can work the column-fields safely.
descendant_of
- ←Stoneborn Reavers — The hostile warband splintered from this people — kin who went the other way.
aligned_with
- ←The Five Elements — The Stoneborn are Earth's people — quarry-folk, guild-oathers, they trust what is fixed and made. The Note slides off granite, and off them.
documents
- ←The Birth of the Races — The Stoneborn emerged when Fire cooled into Earth — transformation settled into the made and fixed. They are the world's memory of the first making; the bedrock every civilization was built on.
worships
- →The Old Man Under the Mountain — The Stoneborn propitiate the Old Man before they cut a new gallery — he is kept, not loved.
- →The Good Neighbor — Stoneborn hearths keep the same threshold courtesies as the lowlanders, whatever they call the reason.
member_of
- ←Dûrn Quarrymark — Dûrn is Stoneborn — the last of a quarry-line that worked the buried Imperium courses.
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