Atlas entry
What the charts and ledgers of Kworgalya record of this place. Its own story has not yet been told.
Reaching Astaurum means a crossing. The city stands far to the east and offshore, on open grassland that a river keeps watered, and it is counted among the greatest cities in the world — a scale out of all proportion to the water separating it from the mainland. It was raised in the fourth wave of expansion. Learning is its chief work, pursued on a footing smaller places cannot match, and the ground supplies the rest: tilled fields, fresh water, and a harvest the city keeps for itself.
Astaurum is held as much as it is inhabited. It keeps soldiers of its own, and its position — offshore, watered, approachable only by sea — makes it a strategic holding as surely as it is a seat of scholarship. Both Suvanar and Lohanar are counted among the Astaurans, two peoples living under a single civic order, which at this size is uncommon anywhere. Allegiance is owed to Astraia.
PeopleThe SuvanarThe Ruby-hearth people of the southeastern coast — fair, sun-touched, and fiercest of all the Elekoi in their devotion to the goddess of flame. They are builders and warriors…
PeopleThe LohanarThe Lohanar are the humans of Kworgalya's southern coast — a cosmopolitan civilization of jurists, merchant-princes, and guilds who trust the charter and the court where their…
RegionThirvandorA landmass far east of Kworgalya across open ocean, drawn on the map beside the Sunspire Forest, with one charted city upon it.
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.
