Atlas entry
What the charts and ledgers of Kworgalya record of this place. Its own story has not yet been told.
The country around Ausavat is spruce, bog and stone, and it gives up little: small fields, grudging harvests, a short window in which anything can be moved by cart. The lake is the compensation. In summer it carries men and supplies; when it hardens, it becomes a better road than any the land offers. On its shore the city keeps what a garrison must keep — barracks, drill grounds, pens for remounts, salt fish and dried meat stacked against a winter that always outlasts the estimate. Soldiering is the trade here, and everything else in the place exists to keep soldiers standing.
Ausavat went up in the fourth wave of expansion, before the newest northern foundations, and it has the settled weight of a city that has held the same ground for a long time. Its people are elves, patient with a duty measured in centuries. The levies it raises and the routes it keeps open are held for the Glacial Dominion.
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…
RegionNorth-Eastern KworgalyaThe continent's far north-eastern corner, charted at a single lakeside garrison in the taiga — Ausavat, easternmost holding of the Glacial Dominion.
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…
CityBerevikWhere an eastern river meets the ocean, Berevik builds and crews ships, works iron and canvas behind its yards, and keeps the Ruby's Beaconmistress; it is the seat of the bloc…
FortressBlood GateAn elven military fortress high in the snowy mountains at the centre of the continent, raised in the third wave of expansion and garrisoned ever since under the Bloodbound…