Reclaimer
"Everyone who could leave, did. The ones who stayed became something the Wastes hadn't planned for — people it couldn't finish."
— Reclaimer oral history, collector unknownWhen the Mourning fractured the world and the city-states sealed their walls, the people who stayed became something different over generations — not corrupted, adapted.
Their bodies learned to function in thin aether. Their eyes learned to read terrain that changes. Their hands learned to make something from nothing.
They are the most practically capable people in Calythera and the least celebrated for it. Angular ash-grey marks trace the shoulders and hands — the body mapping the terrain onto itself in the terrain's own language.
Ash Marks
Angular, geometric patterns in ash-grey — not fractal like the Aetherborn, not organic like Human scars, but precise and almost mechanical, as if the body tried to map the terrain onto itself in the terrain's own language.