Medusae
A people who treat the danger of their gaze as a difference managed through clear safety protocols, not an isolating fate.
Place in Avarra
Stone Curtain is a small but open settlement in Hollow Ring and Foundry Line, established around the Avarra underground. It is not a separate kingdom viewed from outside; it is a village or quarter node tied to neighbouring roads, markets, and common law.
City life and diaspora
In Karanlık Liman, Medusae households participate in stonework, protective design, and mediation without being confined to a single “foreign quarter.” Someone arriving from the village can find kin, an apprenticeship, a guest bed, or a partner; city-born people maintain regular ties to Stone Curtain.
Living together
Medusae are not reduced to one temperament, profession, or politics. Local agreements, access needs, and safety practices are made explicit so difference remains part of ordinary life. Their visible expertise is stonework, protective design, and mediation, but it is never anyone’s compulsory destiny.
Adventure ties
- The partnership between Stone Curtain and Karanlık Liman can be tested by a cut road or a lost record.
- A family may need mediation between local custom and city law.
- A character may belong to this record through a guild, neighbourhood, or road oath as well as ancestry.