Editing Thousand Cities:South (section)

===Great Plains===
:To the Southeast lie vast plains, settled by nomadic horse tribes. From these windswept plains arose [[Thousand_Cities:Farrow|Farrow]], the red-maned horse-goddess. The tribes hunt across the savannah, moving constantly to follow the antelope and buffalo herds. Each year they return to the coast during Ascending Fire, when the southern sky grows too hot to range beyond sight of the sand dunes. The summer cities trade horn, bone and leather with the Central Islands.

:The most prized commodity of the Plainsfolk are their red-maned horses. These creatures are never sold, for they are accorded equal status with the humans of their tribe. To take such a creature away from the plains requires the payment of a vast dowry to the tribe's elders - the contract is considered a marriage, as the horse becomes part of the owner's family. The Plainsfolk will not trade their horses through third parties, insisting that all members of the tribe must meet and approve of the rider.

:Humans outside the Southeast consider these cultures eccentric, but they strictly adhere to them knowing that Farrow's eye is always upon her children. Many of Creation's finest warhorses can trace their bloodlines directly to Farrow's descendants.