Ninit is a tiny settlement in the Ash Forest Nightwards of Wind's Canyon. Fed by a single mineral-rich spring, Ninit consists of a handful of wooden houses set into the forest floor and roofed in pale ash-coloured bark. Ninit has often been used as a base by bandits. The trackless Ash Forest makes it hard to find to anyone not very familiar with the route.
Shurruk is a scrappy and rag-tag settlement not far from The Black Pits. Subsisting mostly on animals that have been poisoned by the fumes rising from the Pits, the inhabitants of Shurruk are stained black with grime and tar. Water, metal, and crops are all in short supply here, and the people are ready to turn to Banditry if they can get away with it. A trail winds from Shurruk, past the Pits and eventually joins the Steps between Der-Maki and Sirara.