Utsuk Amman
The deep-desert city, far into the Endless Desert Place The Endless Desert The great sand of Eldaara, the land to which the AC 1 war council ordered the Annil resettled, and along whose northern edge the Erg Tribal Confederation endures between sand an...'s stone heart Place The Heart A ring of sacred islets in the western ocean off Iruel, the Iru homeland whose faith is the Ooliran Sovereign Breath., built by the old world around a spring the maps call miraculous and the desert calls Utsuk. In AC 50 it is the last inhabited place on the deep crossing: a walled garden of date-terraces and water-law in an ocean of light.
Key traits
- Iru People Iru The progenitors, and the only naturally evolved people of Elshore.-founded around the Utsuk spring; its shade-walls and wind-towers make a cool room of a whole city.
- In AC 50 its water-law is the desert's constitution: every people of the sands keeps peace inside Utsuk Amman, whatever they keep outside it.
- The deep crossing is timed by its bells, audible a night's march out: the desert's one scheduled sound.