The Shepherd of Living Roots

Kagan the Quartermaster

Tumar the Veil-Walker

Aylin of House Erdem

The Royal Granaries

Vast stone chambers where Kagan tracks supplies with meticulous ledgers, the walls covered in chalk calculations. Empty bins slowly fill while the quartermaster's fingers bleed from endless counting.

The Cultivation Gardens

Terraced gardens where Vegetable Lambs grow on umbilical vines, their bleating mixing with rustling leaves. The soil grows darker with each harvest, as if drinking shadows.

Tumar's Traveling Yurt

A felt tent smelling of incense and leather-bound journals, where shelves hold decades of prophecies no one heeded. Candlelight illuminates Tumar's documentation of the unfolding tragedy.