BACKGROUND · WORLDS

Ashkor

Anvil of War

Wildwelt Ashkor: ein riesiger roter Zwergstern über ausgedörrter Salzebene mit Dornbusch im Jahr der Nähe

Classification (multiple allowed)

Feral World

Sector / Segmentum

Segmentum Ultima

Description

Ashkor is no gentle place. The planet circles a red dwarf star on an eccentric orbit, which means the seasons do not turn but sway — four years of glowing heat are followed by one year of relative closeness and burning drought.
Home world of: The Ember Fathers (chapter).

Fauna & Flora

Thornbush and saltwort that wait in the soil as seed through the near year; pale-backed lizards that sit out the heat in sand hollows.

Population & Society

Tribes that count time by the cycle of four heat years and one near year. Some hundreds of thousands of people in cave settlements who guard their water like children in the near year. The Ember Fathers take their aspirants from the tribes that have come through a near year whole.