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The Deepcut Pans

aka the Cutfolk

Freelance panners scraping a worked-out silver prospect for whatever temple-bronze or silver still fetches coin — and skimming past the Silt Hands' cut on every grain they pull.

When the silver gave out, the Silt Hands wrote the Sunken Cut off and posted it as theirs anyway, out of habit and greed. The Deepcut Pans moved into the flooded lower workings the smugglers wouldn't dirty their boots in and found the played-out ground still paid — silver dust the surveyors missed, and seams of temple-bronze that sell well to anyone buying. They pan the cold water by lamplight, dodge the ash-hounds, and move their take through the Free Finders rather than hand the Hands a cut they never earned. It is a hard living wrung from spent rock, and the margins are thin. Sresha's people have started 'inspecting' the Cut to muscle in on the find. The Pans have started posting lookouts.

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HEADQUARTERS

The Sunken Cut

ALIGNED WITH

The Free Finders

JOINABLE

Connected

The StonebornCONCEPT · The Deepcut Pans mine with Stoneborn crews who recko…The Sunken CutPLACE · Pan temple-bronze scrap from the flooded lower worki…The UnclosedCONCEPT · The played-out silver seams open onto flooded galler…The Silt HandsFACTION · They skim past the Hands' claimed cut on every grain…The Free FindersFACTION · They move their crystal through the Free Finders, no…A Pan-ShardITEM · The Pans' whole reason to brave the Cut.

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relic_stanceTemple-bronze and old silver are just goods that sell — dig it from the cold water, move it through the Free Finders, take the coin, and never pay the Hands a cut they didn't earn.

All Relationships (7)

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→The Stoneborn — The Deepcut Pans mine with Stoneborn crews who reckon the Imperium's columns a quarry left standing.
→The Unclosed — The played-out silver seams open onto flooded galleries where old deaths were never properly closed; the Pans pan by lamplight and don't look too hard at what else is down there.
←A Pan-Shard — The Pans' whole reason to brave the Cut.

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→The Sunken Cut — Pan temple-bronze scrap from the flooded lower workings.

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→The Silt Hands — They skim past the Hands' claimed cut on every grain.

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→The Free Finders — They move their crystal through the Free Finders, not the Hands.
←The Coldhand Pans — The Coldhand Pans and the Deepcut Pans are cousin-clans — same Stoneborn lineage, different quarry-grounds, occasional trade of technique and tool.

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