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Each step is deliberately uneven and lightless, forcing initiates to maintain presence of mind and inward focus while exposed to vertiginous depth. | Each step is deliberately uneven and lightless, forcing initiates to maintain presence of mind and inward focus while exposed to vertiginous depth. | ||
|History=Believed to have been carved by | |History=Believed to have been carved by Yairanians during the late [[Era of Isolation]], the Stonesteps were shaped by sustained heat-channeling and pressure-guided scoring techniques, likely guided by the earliest [[Duranthi]] stone-keepers. | ||
|Cultural Practices=Initiates enter the Stonesteps alone and unarmed. They are forbidden from speaking or leaving marks during the trial itself. Descent and ascent must be completed in a single attempt. | |Cultural Practices=Initiates enter the Stonesteps alone and unarmed. They are forbidden from speaking or leaving marks during the trial itself. Descent and ascent must be completed in a single attempt. | ||
Those who complete the Stonesteps wear a narrow obsidian band on their left arm—a symbol of endured silence and memory. | Those who complete the Stonesteps wear a narrow obsidian band on their left arm—a symbol of endured silence and memory. | ||
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