Atlas entry
What the charts and ledgers of Kworgalya record of this place. Its own story has not yet been told.
Everything in Basaran bends toward the water. The city stands on a lake shore deep in the boreal forest of the west, slipways and moorings strung along the bank, timber brought down out of the surrounding stands to be shaped into hulls. Naval work sets the calendar as much as the livelihood: ropewalks and rigging lofts run through the frozen months so that open water finds the yards ready rather than starting. By the reckoning of the western forest this is a substantial city, and it carries itself like one.
Basaran was raised in the fifth and most recent wave of expansion, yet it answers to nothing above it. The allegiance takes its name from the city, and the forest settlements inside that allegiance answer here. The people who work those yards are Ashanar, covenant-keepers and hard bargainers, easy on water and untroubled by long spells away from land.
PeopleThe AshanarThe Ashanar are the humans of Kworgalya's storm-lashed southwestern coast — corsairs, deep-sea mariners, and pact-makers who dwell beyond the reach of any written law. Bound only…
CityKorahanBuried inland in the western boreal forest with neither river nor coast, Korahan is a modest Ashanar mining town that sends its ore overland to the seat at Basaran.
CityNimanzaGrassland above, ore below: a substantial Ashanar mining city on a western lake, sworn to Saradir, governed out of Basaran, and counted within the wider bloc of Torolok.
CityTiratanTimber off the forest and traffic off the lake both stop at Tiratan to be worked into something worth more, a fifth-expansion Ashanar city of the west under the allegiance of…
RegionWestern KworgalyaTwenty settlements of boreal forest and tundra along the western reach, predominantly Ashanar, where mining is the first living of nearly half the towns and no single seat holds…
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…
CityBrennisaA dark lower city hauls the water; a pale upper city spends it — the decadent western gate of the Infernate, where aristocrats keep Shadowflame Fairies the way other nobles keep…