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A giant waystation built on a mountaintop in the Arm of Okran, the northern stronghold of the Tech Hunters and home of the University of Machinists — a heretical city that dodges Holy Nation religious scrutiny behind two fake statues.

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World's End stands on a mountaintop on the western side of the Arm of Okran, inside Holy Nation territory, and looks like a waystation scaled up several times over. It is controlled by the Tech Hunters and is simultaneously the seat of the University of Machinists — which is to say that the densest concentration of ancient technology and banned books in the world happens to be piled up in the belly of the nation that hates technology most.

The two statues at the south gate

Two statues stand at the southern edge of town, resembling Okran or Holy Lord Phoenix. The official explanation from Finch, leader of the Machinists, is blunt: they are there for the Holy Nation to look at. He believes this much of a façade is enough to convince Holy Nation authorities that the people inside are devout, and thus to stop them asking what is stacked up behind the walls.

Whether that explanation holds water, the game deliberately leaves open. Given how the Holy Nation operates — bag searches at the gates, checkpoints on the roads, and "acting devout" often not being enough on its own — it is hard to imagine a stockpile of contraband technology this large going entirely unnoticed. At the very least the Holy Nation's own building materials trader knows: ask him about ancient science books and he will glance around before saying that the stuff is banned here, don't mention it, go north and ask at World's End.

What is certain is the consequence: this is the only place inside Holy Nation borders where robotic limbs can be bought openly, and there are large numbers of skeletons standing inside its walls — while anywhere else in Holy Nation territory, a skeleton is killed on sight.

The University of Machinists

The Machinists are a body of scholars whose goal is to reconstruct the history of the world and return lost technology to the living. Their method is not monopoly but writing it down and putting it out there. The organisation is also an ally of the Tech Hunters, and its headquarters is the large science laboratory inside World's End^{[V1 0:01:32]}.

• Finch — a Hive Prince and head of the university^{[V1 0:01:32]}, author of The Great Extinction I, The Lost Ancients I, Mysteries of Skeleton Tech I and The Cannibal Plains: A Devolution of Man?, among others. His pattern as a writer is to pose interesting questions and leave later scholars to finish them.
• Iyo — a skeleton (P4 unit), the university's second-in-command and its public face^{[V2 0:05:04]}. Finch calls him "my assistant", but he is a chassis built during the First Empire that lived through the whole of the Second, and watched his world be destroyed twice with his own eyes^{[V1 0:01:32]} — he is not merely a compiler of historical material, he is primary source material.

Scholars cannot survive outside, so the dangerous parts are outsourced to the Tech Hunters. The university in fact employs most of the Tech Hunters in town, and relations between the two factions sit at +100.

What Iyo is hiding

Among the skeletons, the few who still retain distant memories have become scholars, and Iyo is the most famous of them. But his attitude to memory is the opposite of the other scholars': he treats concealing certain fragments of history as his own duty^{[V3 0:15:52][V2 0:05:04]}.

This does not have to be inferred; he says it himself, very directly:

Look, you don't need to worry... no one will ever know the truth. As long as I am Finch's second-in-command, I will see to that myself. — Iyo

The reason he gives is the protection of knowledge necessary for human survival^{[V4 0:07:18]}; and in the library he administers, the player can indeed pick up a book so thoroughly ruined with spilled ink that nothing can be read from it^{[V4 0:07:18]}.

Which fragment he is hiding, and why, the game does not say. The most common speculation is that it is to prevent hostility and discrimination between the peoples from flaring up again — once a thousand-year-old grudge is reopened, peace between humans and skeletons may not hold^{[V3 0:15:52][V2 0:05:04]}. That motive is interpretation, not game text.

The library at Science HQ

The barrels and chests inside Science HQ hold a large quantity of lore books, making it one of the densest concentrations of historical documents in the game. Three sets have a clear internal sequence:

• the Mysteries of Skeleton Tech series
• the Great Extinction series
• the Lost Ancients series and the Okranite Theories in Relation to Findings series

The rest includes Cultural Divergence and Evolution, Legends, Tech Hunter's Notes and The Cannibal Plains: A Devolution of Man?.

Iyo himself is the author of several entries in Tech Hunter's Notes; the player can also simply ask him about the history of this world.

Law and order: a town with no prison

World's End's guards are hired ninjas. There is no prison in town, but imperial law applies in a very loose form — troublemakers get a United Cities bounty put on them.

On the ground the rule is close to a dead letter: bounties are not enforced inside the town, and plenty of the Tech Hunters in town are carrying imperial bounties of their own.

What it means for the player

• The largest commercial district inside the Holy Nation. An armour shop, a headgear shop, a robotics shop, a ranger shop, a weapon shop, and travel and repair shops, plus four bars-cum-waystations, two hydroponic farms and a battery station.
• This is one of very few locations in Holy Nation territory that sells robotic limbs, and its shops have a very small chance of stocking ancient science books.
• Purchasable buildings: a small shack at 4,000 Cats, an L-shaped house at 28,000 Cats.
• Shek Kingdom pacifiers are stationed here permanently, making it the place to repair relations after a break with the Shek.
• If you cannot find the way, buy a Map to World's End for 750 Cats.
• Old Hobbs has a chance to spawn here, and will join up for free.

See also

• Tech Hunters
• Skeleton
• The Holy Nation
• Black Scratch
• Locations of Kenshi

Buildings and shops

Armour Shop, Bar/Waystation x4, Battery Station, Headgear Shop, Hydroponics x2, Mechanical Shop, Ranger Shop, Science HQ, Travel and Repairs, Weapon Shop

Buildings for sale

Sells

Vendors here stock 132 items in total, grouped by category — every entry links.

Items

Advanced First Aid Kit, Advanced Splint Kit, Armour Plating, Authentic Skeleton Repair Kit, Basic First Aid Kit, Bloodrum, Book, Cactus, Chainmail Sheets, Copper Alloy Plates, Copper, Cotton, Electrical Components, Fabrics, Fuel, Gears, Generator Core, Greenfruit, Grog, Hacksaw, Hemp, Iron Plates, Leather, Sake, Skeleton Repair Kit, Sleeping Bag, Splint Kit, Spring Steel, Standard First Aid Kit, Steel Bars, Tools, Water Jug, Water, Wheatstraw

Robot Limbs

Economy Arm (left), Economy Arm (right), Economy Leg (left), Economy Leg (right), KLR Series Arm (left), KLR Series Arm (right), KLR Series Leg (left), KLR Series Leg (right), Scout Leg (left), Scout Leg (right), Skeleton Arm (left), Skeleton Arm (right), Skeleton Leg (left), Skeleton Leg (right), Steady Arm (left), Stealth Leg (left), Stealth Leg (right), Thief's Arm (right)

Weapons

Combat Cleaver, Falling Sun, Guardless Katana, Heavy Polearm, Holed Sabre, Horse Chopper, Iron Club, Jitte, Katana, Naginata Katana, Naginata, Ninja Blade, Nodachi, Plank, Polearm, Ringed Sabre, Staff, Wakizashi

Medium Armour

Armoured Face Plates, Armoured Hood, Armoured Rag Skirt, Armoured Rags, Black Plate Jacket, Blackened Chainmail Tagelmust, Iron Hat, Masked Helmet, Mercenary Leather Armour, Plate Jacket, Plated Drifter's Leather Pants, Plated Longboots, Rusty Chainmail Tagelmust, Visored Helmet, White Plate Jacket

Light Armour

Bandana, Black Bandana, Drifters Leather Jacket, Drifters Leather Pants, Hachigane, Heart Protector, Rattan Hat, Samurai Clothpants, Side-Angle Hachigane, Tagelmust, Tricorn Hat

Backpacks

Bull Backpack, Garru Backpack, Large Backpack, Medium Backpack, Scavenger's Basket, Small Backpack, Small Thieves Backpack, Thieves Backpack, Trader's Wooden Backpack, Wooden Backpack

Crossbows

Bolts Heavies, Bolts Longs, Bolts Regulars, Bolts Toothpicks, Eagle's Cross, Oldworld Bow MkII, Oldworld Bow MkI, Ranger, Spring Bat, Tooth Pick

Nutrition

Bread, Cooked Vegetables, Dried Fish, Dried Meat, Foodcube, Meatwrap, Ration Pack

Samurai

Samurai Armour, Samurai Boots, Samurai Legplates

Heavy Armour

Tin Can, Unholy Chest Plate

Shirts

Leather Shirt, Leather Vest

Headgear

Sandogasa

Mercenaries

Mercenary Plate

Vendors and stock here

Compiled automatically from the wiki's vendor data: shops that can appear in this settlement and what they may carry. Actual stock varies with world state and randomisation.

Adventurer Bar

Advanced Splint Kit, Authentic Skeleton Repair Kit, Basic First Aid Kit, Bloodrum, Bolts Heavies, Bolts Longs, Bolts Regulars, Bolts Toothpicks, Bread, Bull Backpack, Cooked Vegetables, Dried Fish, Dried Meat, Foodcube, Garru Backpack, Greenfruit, Grog, Meatwrap, … (30 items in all at this shop)

Adventurer Mechanical Shop

Armour Plating, Authentic Skeleton Repair Kit, Book, Cactus, Chainmail Sheets, Copper, Copper Alloy Plates, Cotton, Electrical Components, Fabrics, Fuel, Gears, Generator Core, Greenfruit, Hacksaw, Hemp, Iron Plates, Leather, … (22 items in all at this shop)

Adventurer Ranger Shop

Bolts Heavies, Bolts Longs, Bolts Regulars, Bolts Toothpicks, Eagle's Cross, Oldworld Bow MkI, Oldworld Bow MkII, Ranger, Spring Bat, Tooth Pick

Headgear Shop

Armoured Hood, Bandana, Black Bandana, Hachigane, Iron Hat, Masked Helmet, Rattan Hat, Sandogasa, Side-Angle Hachigane, Tagelmust, Tin Can, Tricorn Hat, Visored Helmet

Ronin Armor Shop

Armoured Face Plates, Armoured Hood, Armoured Rag Skirt, Armoured Rags, Authentic Skeleton Repair Kit, Black Plate Jacket, Blackened Chainmail Tagelmust, Drifters Leather Jacket, Drifters Leather Pants, Heart Protector, Leather Shirt, Leather Vest, Mercenary Leather Armour, Mercenary Plate, Plate Jacket, Plated Drifter's Leather Pants, Plated Longboots, Rusty Chainmail Tagelmust, … (25 items in all at this shop)

Ronin Weapon Shop

Combat Cleaver, Falling Sun, Guardless Katana, Heavy Polearm, Holed Sabre, Horse Chopper, Iron Club, Jitte, Katana, Naginata, Naginata Katana, Ninja Blade, Nodachi, Plank, Polearm, Ringed Sabre, Staff, Wakizashi

Travel and Repairs Shop

Advanced First Aid Kit, Advanced Splint Kit, Authentic Skeleton Repair Kit, Basic First Aid Kit, Book, Bull Backpack, Economy Arm (left), Economy Arm (right), Economy Leg (left), Economy Leg (right), Garru Backpack, KLR Series Arm (left), KLR Series Arm (right), KLR Series Leg (left), KLR Series Leg (right), Large Backpack, Medium Backpack, Ration Pack, … (36 items in all at this shop)

Video citations

1. Kenshi: Major Powers | Tech Hunters and CannibalsCivilizationEx
2. Kenshi: Major Powers | SkeletonsCivilizationEx
3. The History of Kenshi | DocumentaryCivilizationEx
4. The Whole Story of The First EmpireHeroInHisHead