THE LEDGER
The Southern Flats
Sun-cracked chaparral flats south of the Vale ring, worked by salt-caravans out of Saltreach Spring and picked over by the smugglers and mercenary drop-outs who ride the same roads.
The Flats are a working country before they are a dangerous one: caravan roads lace the chaparral between Saltreach Spring and the coast, and the Silt Hands move contraband along the same ruts the honest traders cut. What danger there is rides in on two feet — the Broken Lances, mutineers out of the Marrow Lances' contracts, take what an unescorted wagon can't defend. The main company has never let that go: Marrow Lances riders work the Flats on standing escort contracts, in part to keep the road open for Saltreach Spring's caravans and in part because every Broken Lance still wearing a company cloak is a debt the Marrowhall means to collect in person.
KIND
zone-region
LAYER
surface
TIER
Tier III
DANGER REASON
Open salt-flat country between the settled Vale ring and the wastes; caravan roads cross it, and what preys on caravans lives here too.
Connected
Type Fields
All Relationships (4)
owns
- ←The Silt Hands — The Silt Hands run contraband up the Flats' caravan roads, selling to whoever pays and the law to whoever pays more.
hidden_in
- ←The Broken Lances — The Broken Lances, mutineers out of the Marrow Lances, prey on unescorted caravans crossing the open Flats.
- ←The Marrow Lances — Marrow Lances riders work the Flats on standing escort contracts, in part to keep Saltreach Spring's caravan road open and in part to hunt down the Broken Lances splinter wearing their old cloak.
references
- →Saltreach Spring — Saltreach Spring is the zone's one fixed water source and its caravan hub.
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