The Thousand-Year Fish
In the age after the fall of the Orokin, the grand clade-families of the Ostrons were cast wide across the solar system
In the age after the fall of the Orokin, the grand clade-families of the Ostrons were cast wide across the solar system
If the Unum speaks to you, traveller, it is because you have the ears to hear
The cry of seabirds. The delicate, permeating scent of Temple blood.
It is my experience of the Plains that nature adapts with greater alacrity than we.
I know us for a miracle. A million-to-one improbability.
Rising from the lakes at sundown and returning to them before dawn
The Ostron mercantile scavenger culture has birthed a rich tradition of artisans fluent in many styles
While their floating markets may ply the Rails of the Origin System
The blanketpiece of Temple flesh is lowered to waiting butchers and flensers.
Finding worth in the worthless, the Ostron clade-families have built for themselves a bastion from the bones of a once-great Orokin citadel.