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|Name=Tarsu-un | |Name=Tarsu-un | ||
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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 | 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 | 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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