Location: Lower Realm - Farming Villages Along Trade Road
Date/Time: 7-8 Ashwhisper, 9938 AZI
The caravan wound through farmland that stretched to the horizon in every direction.
Jayde sat in their covered wagon, watching the world pass through the gap in the canvas. The Veil of the Forgotten hummed against her skin—a constant, barely-there sensation, like wearing a second pulse. To anyone who glanced her way, she was Jayde Ashford: black-haired, brown-eyed, unremarkable. Just another frontier girl heading toward the academy belt with her plain older sister and a pet kitten.
Fields of winter wheat spread out in brown and gold patterns, dotted with figures bent over endless rows. Smoke rose from distant farmhouses—low buildings of mud brick and thatch that looked like they'd been there for centuries.
Agricultural sector. Pre-industrial development. No visible mechanization.
