Location:Northern Clan territories — deep interior, remote settlement
Date/Time:TC1855.01.19-25
Past Iron Ridge, the world simplified.
The Northern Clans' interior territories didn't have roads. They had paths — tracks worn into the permafrost by generations of feet that belonged to people who didn't build roads because roads implied the world was finished and the north was never finished. The paths followed the terrain's logic: along ridgelines where the wind kept the snow shallow, through glacier valleys where the ice walls blocked the worst weather, around obstacles rather than through them because the north had opinions about obstacles and the opinions were expressed in avalanches.
