Atlas entry
What the charts and ledgers of Kworgalya record of this place. Its own story has not yet been told.
Ships are the whole point of Askaves. The city stands at a river mouth on the northern coast, boreal forest at its back and open ocean in front of it; the river brings down the timber, and the estuary gives sheltered water deep enough to fit out a hull and shallow enough to careen one. Slipways line both banks. Sawpits, sail-lofts, rope and pitch and the tar-smoke that hangs over all of it fill the ground between the yards, and the tide sets the working hours as firmly as any bell.
The elves of Askaves are a seafaring population in the practical sense — crews, shipwrights, pilots who know the bar at the river mouth in every state of the tide. The city was raised in the third wave of expansion and has been a naval station since, its yards building and its harbour berthing what the coast requires. Command sits with the Glacial Dominion, and the ships that come off these slips sail under its orders.
RegionThe Glacial DominionA vast frozen realm spanning much of north and northeastern Kworgale, ruled by the immortal Frost Queen Glacya from the Iridescent Throne within the Crystalline Palace of…
CityAsmaruWorkshops are the whole of Asmaru's living: a modest Ashanar town on dry south-western grass, founded under the older name Tasmaru, working the produce of nearby farms and…
CityAstaurumAstaurum stands offshore in the far east on river-fed grassland, a Suvanar and Lohanar city given over to learning, counted among the greatest in the world, and answerable to…
CityAusavatAusavat guards the north-eastern taiga from a lake shore, an elven garrison city of the fourth wave whose drill yards, stores and winter ice-roads are the whole of its business.
CityAzuratSet where temperate forest runs down to the south-western ocean, Azurat is one of the oldest Ashanar foundations, a substantial city of halls and study that answers to Bareshum.
CityBannevarSet between seasonal forest, river and lake, Bannevar works timber and grain, drills its levies, governs the country around it in its own name, and answers to Risbern in the…
CityBareshumBareshum spreads across the open southern grassland, a major Ashanar city that lives by arms, muster and remount, and answers to no seat above its own.
CityBasaranShipbuilding and lake water carry Basaran, a substantial Ashanar city in the boreal forest of the west, raised in the fifth expansion and seat of the allegiance that bears its…