Asheni Wayfinding

The Bonesung practice of reading ancestor-poles, mesa positions, and herd-traces to navigate the wastes — a knowledge system the settled call superstition and the wastes confirm lethal to ignore.

A wayfinder reads the land in layers: which wells the ancestor-poles point toward, which washes the loper-herds have braided into tracks, which mesa-tops show cliff-stalker shadow at noon. The knowledge is oral, passed through the gravesong — which is why gravesingers are also the tribe's navigators. An outlander who learns wayfinding does not learn it from a map; they learn it from being told what to look at.