The Mother’s Backbone
The Mother’s Backbone, or simply ‘the Backbone’, is a basalt dyke intrusion that runs north to south down the western edge of the Earthsky
SDC topics
ammonite arrays / ammonites / Ancestor Houses / Apotheosis / aquar / Aurum / auxiliaries / Backbone / Balance of the Three Powers / banyans / baobabs / baran / beadcord / beasts / Black God / Black Land / blood / Blood Convention / blood-ranks / blood-rings / blood-taints / Bloodguard / brassman / Brotherhood of the Wheel / calendars / Canyon of the Three Gates / Carnelian / Chamber of the Three Lands / characters / childgatherers / Chosen / Chosen costume / Chosen names / Chosen women City at the Gates / Clave / Cloaca / commander's leathers / Commonwealth / Coomb Suth / coombs / court robes / crowns / Darkness-under-the-trees / deadman chairs / demographics / djada / Domains / drag-cradles / dragon towers / dragons / Dreamchamber / Earth Mother / Earthers / Earthsky / Elder Assemblies / Elders / elections / elixir / Encampment of the Seraphim / Eye coins / Eyries / family trees / fauna / ferngardens / fernroot / fiddleheads / flamepipes / flesh tithe / flora / Forbidden Garden / forbidden houses / Gatemarsh / God Emperors / Grand Sapients / Great / Great Balance / Great-Rings / Green God / Green Lands / Guarded Land / Halls of Rebirth / Halls of Thunder / He-who-goes-before / hearth / Heaveners / heliographs / Hidden Land / Hold / homunculi / Horned God / horned-rings / hornwall / House Imago / House of the Masks / House Suth / hri / huimur / huskmen / ichor / Ichorian Legion / Ichorians / Ichorous / Imperial Power / Iron Door / iron Eye coins / Isle / Isle of Flies / Jade Faced God / Jade Lord / Jade Mask / Jaspar / kharon / Koppie / koppies / kraals / Labyrinth / Landabove / Law / Law-that-must-be-obeyed / leathers / Lefthand / leftways / Legates / legions / Lesser Chosen / Lord of Mirrors / Lower Reach / MAPS / Marula / marumaga / masking law / masks / Masters / military leathers / military service collars / Mountain / mythology / naphtha / naptha / Naralan / Nothnaralan / Obsidian Faced God / Obsidian Mask / Oracles / Osrakum / Osrakum model / Outer World / Pillar of Heaven / Plain of Thrones / Plainsmen / politics Pomegranate Ring / population / purgatory / pygmies / Quaestors / Quays of the Dead / Qunoth / Quya language / Quyan fractions / Quyan Ladder / Quyan numbers / Quyans / Rainbow Stair / Rains / raised roads / ranga / raveners / Rebirth / Red Caves / Red Ichorians / Red Land / render / Renunciation / Righthand / Ringwall / ritual protection / rootearth / ruhuimur / Ruling Lords / Ruling Rings / Sacred Wall / sacs / saddle-chairs / sanctum / Sapients / sartlar / scarring combs / seasons / Seraph / Seraphim / service collars / sign of the horns / Sinistral Ichorians / Skyfather / Skymere / Song to the Earth / Southern Plain / Stairs of the Approach / Stone Dance of the Chameleon / Sunhold / syblings / Three Gates / Three Lands / Three Powers / Thronehall / Thunderfalls / Thuyakalrul / Tower in the Sea / trees / Twelve / Twin Gods / Twins / tyadra / uba / Umbilicus / Upper Reach / Vennel / voting / Vulgate / watchtowers / Wheel / wheelmap / Wise / Yden / Ydenrim / Ykorenthe / Ykoriana /