The Spires

The Spires announce themselves from a distance: tall, perilous-looking rock formations reaching high into the skyline at the center of Caravaner's Dream. What looks like a natural nightmare of twisted stone is, on closer approach, one of the largest Nuclear Family footholds in Deserter outside the City of Saints. The spire bases serve as walls and foundations for sparse homes, and the tall formations double as defense posts, turning the same terrain that conceals predators and raiders into an advantage for those who know how to use it.
  Father Joe leads the community with a frontier philosophy that diverges sharply from the covered homes and white picket fences of typical Nuclear Family settlements. The souls who live at the Spires are hardened by the harshest conditions the desert offers, and they draw their strength from that hardship rather than from comfort. Survival in this landscape proves the family bond in ways that urban neighborhoods cannot replicate. The Spires' success has led many Nuclear Family faithful to believe there is a weakness in city-based faith that only the hard work and sweat of frontier Fathers can counter.
  The rock formations that terrify passing caravaners shelter a community that thrives on endurance. In a territory where the dream and the nightmare are the same place, the Spires stand as proof that family can root itself in stone as easily as in soil.