Fort: Most dragons of Fort are grounded and they are forced to be almost beholden to High Reaches to look after their holds. Only dragons that do not catch mates often are actually still clean to fly and fight. Groundriders here make up most of the bulk of defense. Low ranks (blues and browns who have not Caught and young greens who have not Risen) fill the few flying wings here. Living at Fort means being in constant fear of becoming a groundrider and having to deal with frequent debts to High Reaches Weyr. They are in desperate need of a clean clutch and candidates, but High Reaches continually denies them and, in fact, as Fort would say “keeps stealing [their] candidates”.

High Reaches: The people of High Reaches have become extremists. They demand almost all clutches be pure, using Fort’s groundriders amongst their own as well as advertising to other Weyrs when one of their ‘clean’ clutches has been born so as to take scared candidates from other Weyrs. Bloodlines are strictly controlled. High Reaches has become vaguely military orientated, taking somewhat over Fort, watching the other Weyr’s skies when Threadfall occurs but otherwise leaving Fort defenseless. They refuse to give Fort clean eggs, often trading Fort diseased eggs on purpose. Fort candidates cannot Stand at High Reaches unless they agree to not return to Fort.

Benden: Benden has refused to clip, instead utilizing infected dragons so as to breed bigger dragons. The inbreeding at Benden has gotten to the point where dragons are being born with physical deformities and hip/joint problems, but the pressure to breed bigger continues unchecked. The disease at Benden goes rather unchecked and many die.

Telgar: They have become desperate due to an infertile queen. They have less dragons overall than the other Weyrs. Groundriders have begun to be sent by the weyrleaders in unacknowledged raids to Igen when there are clutches, to steal the larger eggs in hope to repopulate their Weyr.

Ista: Due to the rejection of clipping, healers claimed that they had created a vaccine for the plague which was a lie. While this got many runaways who refused to have their dragon’s clipped to come into the area, the proposed vaccine actually caused more infection. The infection rates rose to a point in which the entire Weyr eventually became quarantined. Nobody in, nobody out – until the whole Weyr had become infected. ¾ of the Weyr residents have succumbed and died. Aside from about roughly ten people who stayed behind, the riders have fled Ista. The surrounding Weyrs continue to use Ista as a quarantine, sending their ill with promises of cure to Ista so as to virtually just allow them to die unknowingly. This is much the same behavior as a Lord Holder making someone holdless. Ista is no longer anything more but a prison of sorts for the ill or a deathcamp.

Igen: The most well off internally as the dragon lines have been separated through clipping and the disease contained, Igen has become prey to Telgar’s raids. They do what they can for their neighbors, but Telgar will be not satisfied with anything less than a pure blooded queen egg. Watch-whers are actually becoming more important at Igen, due to the Telgar groundriders that come under the cover of night are more easily spotted by a wher's nightvision and in a group they can delay the grounded dragons until reinforcements arrive.