Kethvar

North Shejara, inland

Kethvar is the hardest city-state to supply and the most self-sufficient. The desert environment means the mountain’s water — channeled from high snowmelt through Okoi-engineered stone channels to the forge and living districts — is the city’s foundation in a more literal sense than elsewhere. The river running south to Nashira is less a trade convenience than a structural fact: Kethvar’s output flows south because that is where the water goes.

House Dajimir has never made a formal approach to Kethvar. The Okoi read this as correct behavior and have not raised the question of why.