The HookReport
English：The Hook · Locations
Arid coast. United Cities. Main settlements: Clownsteady, Drifter's Last, Slave Farm South, Manhunter Base.
A hook the Empire throws southward, with two towns eating off the same supply line: Slave Farm South. The people most likely to stop you on the road here are not bandits — they are men checking whether you have an owner.
Terrain
The terrain is Arid coast.
Who holds it
- United Cities Controls
- Traders Guild Present
- Manhunters Patrols
- Slave Traders Present
- Rebel Farmers Roaming
- Shinobi Thieves Present
- Noble Circle Present
- Band of Bones Roaming
Settlements
| Name | Type |
|---|---|
| Clownsteady | Town |
| Drifter's Last | Town |
| Slave Farm South | Outpost |
| Manhunter Base | Outpost |
| Waystation | Outpost |
| Lost Library | Ancient site |
Inhabitants
Races: Greenlander, Scorchlander
Wildlife
Notable units
| Name | Type | Where | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lady Merin | Hostile boss | Drifter's Last, noble house | A Noble Circle member and ruler of Drifter's Last, with 5 hooded noble guards; killing or jailing her leaves the town half ruined and swaps the Rebel Farmer patrols for far better equipped Rebel Swordsmen. |
| Slave Mistress Grace | Hostile boss | Slave Farm South | A Traders Guild noble and mistress of Slave Farm South, carrying a Meitou-grade wakizashi; her fall turns the farm to ruins, and if the Slave Market Master falls with her the Free Traders take it over. |
| Izumi | Recruitable | Clownsteady and Drifter's Last (any United Cities town bar) | A young scientist and medic, 40 Field Medic / 24 Science — the cheapest qualified squad doctor available early. |
| Jewel | Recruitable | Clownsteady and Drifter's Last (any United Cities town bar) | A dedicated cook with 50 Cooking, saving enormous amounts of training time when you set up a food line at an outpost. |
| Hamut | Recruitable | The bars in Clownsteady and Drifter's Last (low chance) | A Greenlander whose wife was taken by slavers, with combat skills around 13 (±6); free, but only a character with an anti-slavery stance can take him on. |
| Riddly | Recruitable | The bars in Clownsteady and Drifter's Last | The lone adventurer who starts conversations in United Cities bars; tell her you are out adventuring and she joins, tell her you are building a settlement and she declines. |
| Bard | Recruitable | The waystation bar | His value is mostly in the sheer volume of unique dialogue; his accounts of places like Bast are a rare first-hand source inside the game. |
| Silvershade | Recruitable | The waystation bar | A Hive Prince with 10 in every combat skill, one of the few Hive Princes you can reliably buy. |
| Hobbs | Recruitable | The waystation bar | One of the easiest free unique recruits in the game, with dialogue of his own. |
| Yabuta Outlaw | Hostile | Roams the zone (requires Yabuta of the Sands to be alive) | Men of Yabuta of the Sands from the north, patrolling this far south into the Hook — one of the clearer signs that this zone is wired into northern Empire politics. |
| Escaped Slave | Recruitable | Roams the zone; also holds up at the Manhunter Base once it changes hands | Two sides of one coin: talk one down while he is alone and he joins for free, or hand him to a United Cities police station for a guaranteed 2,000 Cats. If the player character is an escaped slave he will ask to join unprompted. |
| Mercenary Captain | Merchant | Mercenary camps (randomly generated), the Manhunter Base barracks, and the bars in Clownsteady and Drifter's Last | The Hook is one of only two zones in the game that generate mercenary camps; renewing a contract takes nothing more than one more conversation. |
History
- After the Anti-Slavers smashed the Empire's slave camps, every Empire town fell into malnutrition — Drifter's Last is one of only two that were left untouched.
- The library the Second Empire left on this coast has rotted into a ruin; the Ancient Science Books inside are some of the few first-hand sources left in this world.
Getting there
Resupply inside the region: Clownsteady, Drifter's Last, Slave Farm South, Manhunter Base, Waystation.
The nearest city is Catun (Bonefields), just across the border.
Regions you can walk into directly from here:
| Region |
|---|
| Bonefields |
| Shun |
| South Wetlands |
| The Crater |
NoteThis article is assembled from the region dossier; facts come from the Kenshi Fandom Wiki and in-game data, and the navigation section is computed from the 72-region adjacency graph.