Life of the Isles
Herds roam the isles of the Quickstream, and something swims in the dust of the Drained Isles. Read a Racestrider or a Dustfin with the Loupe.
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- Read with the Loupe:
racestriderordustfin - Notes: The Stillness — 2
- After the entries:
The Quickstream
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Racestriders are the herd beasts of the floating isles and food for whoever lives in the Quickstream: mutton, leather and, from one you slay, a pinch of Gale or Tide Grit. The races are their roads: a frightened Racestrider runs to the edge of its isle, leaps into the nearest race, and the race carries it off to another isle; if it misses, it glides down. A running person scares them — come at a walk.
On the Drained Isles, where the Tollkeepers dammed the races, Dustfins swim in the gray dust — fish of the dried courses. Only a fin shows above the ground: whatever circles you is about to strike from below, and its bite leaves you hungry. They cannot swim in stone, tuff or planks — stand on stone, and a Dustfin only circles at the edge. Slain, it gives the land back the flux it held, and sometimes drops a Strata Shard.