Keldrun Deep

Keldrun Deep is entered through gaps in rock that appear, from any approach, to be natural stonefalls. They are not. The Karuun maintain them — adjusting, reinforcing, replacing what has shifted — to ensure the approach reads as undisturbed terrain. The settlement’s existence is inferred from what it produces: weapons, trained fighters, and maintained equipment at a scale the other holds could not sustain independently.

Inside

The cavern beneath is vast. Those who have dealt with Karuun who rotated through Keldrun Deep describe individuals who move differently than Karuun stationed elsewhere — with the particular economy of motion that comes from long practice in enclosed spaces. Beyond that, the accounts do not go. What the interior looks like, how it is organized, and how many Karuun are stationed there at any given time are not questions with answers in external sources. What is produced here leaves through the same concealed approaches it arrived through, moving to the other holds by internal routes.

The Weapons

The Karuun’s weapons present a persistent puzzle to those who have encountered them in the field. Several accounts — from Sitan Giants, from Mon-Oger survivors, from the few outside observers who have witnessed Karuun engagements — describe weapons that emit, under certain conditions, a faint glow. The Karuun do not explain this. They do not deny it.

Keldrun Deep is the most likely origin of whatever property produces that observation. Whether the glow is a product of specific materials sourced from the Khar-Mol range, a surface treatment applied during finishing, or something observers misread under the stress of combat is not established. The Chronicle Project has collected accounts that contradict each other on the specifics. The Karuun, for their part, have found the ambiguity useful and show no inclination to resolve it.