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{{District Infobox
{{District Infobox
|Name=Tarsu-un
|Name=Tarsu-un
|Image=[[File:Terasil - Kar-Thal Tarsu-un 01.jpg|center|frameless]]
|City=Kar-Thal
|City=Kar-Thal
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|Realm=[[Terasil]]
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|Cultural Practices=Unlike the more ceremonial districts, Tarsu-un speaks in the dialect of purpose. Speech is clipped, rhythms sync with hammer strikes, and few words are wasted. Clan-stones are placed above entrances and coated with fracture-dust to mark lineage and quarry deeds.
|Cultural Practices=Unlike the more ceremonial districts, Tarsu-un speaks in the dialect of purpose. Speech is clipped, rhythms sync with hammer strikes, and few words are wasted. Clan-stones are placed above entrances and coated with fracture-dust to mark lineage and quarry deeds.


Initiates from Tarsu-un often undertake the **First Fracture Rite**, in which they must extract a vein segment using ancestral tools, then present it unbroken to the Hall of Dust-Weighers.
Initiates from Tarsu-un often undertake the First Fracture Rite, in which they must extract a vein segment using ancestral tools, then present it unbroken to the Hall of Dust-Weighers.


Meal songs in the district are tonal but rhythmic—designed to echo through tunnel walls during long quarry shifts. Tarsu-un also maintains a rare tradition: the **Stone Silence**, a full day of muteness observed after a tunnel collapse, out of respect for the fallen and the unsettled stone.
Meal songs in the district are tonal but rhythmic—designed to echo through tunnel walls during long quarry shifts. Tarsu-un also maintains a rare tradition: the Stone Silence, a full day of muteness observed after a tunnel collapse, out of respect for the fallen and the unsettled stone.
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