Jarabiir
The terrace-city of the upper Abasa Place Abasa The Torona's eastern sister, rising under the Spine of the World and running north-east through terrace country cut in the old world and farmed ever since., cut into a shoulder of the Spine of the World Place The Spine of the World The continent-long mountain crown that splits Tarkdaara down its centre, a chain of stone and ice where the peaks tear at the clouds and the valleys drown in mist. in stepped courts that catch the sun the mountains try to keep. In AC 50 it is a quiet provincial seat of orchard-terraces and thin air, living in perhaps a tenth of itself.
Key traits
- Iru People Iru The progenitors, and the only naturally evolved people of Elshore.-cut terraces climb from the river in flights too regular for the eye to accept as stone-work; the top nine flights are empty.
- In AC 50 its Maan People Maan The most numerous people of Elshore and the baseline cultural reference of the age. and Erg households farm the lower terraces and keep the mountain road; the empire collects in fruit, resin, and silence.
- Meltwater still runs in the old channels, arriving at each terrace in its turn without a single pump.