Atlas entry
What the charts and ledgers of Kworgalya record of this place. Its own story has not yet been told.
Two waters make Berevik: a river coming out of the temperate rainforest, and the ocean that takes it. Raised in the second wave of expansion, the city has grown substantial on that meeting, a place of slipways and stone quays with wet green country at its back supplying everything a hull needs. Ships are the first business, built here, crewed here, sent out from here, and behind the yards stands the industry that keeps them at sea: ropewalks, forges and sail-lofts, pitch and plank and iron fitting. Little of Breviker life happens far from the sound of water.
Berevik holds its own allegiance and is the seat of the bloc that bears its name. Its people are Suvanar, and the third pillar of the city, after the sea and the workshops, is religion. The Ruby is worshipped here as the divine, and the aspect Brevikers keep is the Beaconmistress, who holds discovery. Her priesthood, all women, works as part of the harbour rather than as an ornament to it, and Breviker captains have the name of going further out than the trade strictly requires.
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…
LoreThe Religion of the RubyThe Ruby is the most beloved and most feared of the gods of the human south — and of all the divine powers of Kworgale, she alone is worshipped not as a distant maker but as a…
RegionEastern KworgalyaTen wholly Suvanar settlements in the eastern rainforest, the only quarter of the continent where the Verdancy is charted alongside the Ruby and the Radiant Light.
CityRudavetSmall, cold and offshore, Rudavet cuts ore from a boreal island in the eastern sea while its garrison and its Beaconmistress rites hold that stretch of water for Berevik.
CitySkalodarOre leaves Skalodar smelted and finished, worked out of rainforest hills on the eastern coast by a modest Suvanar town that answers to Berevik and keeps the Ruby as the…
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…
CityBruntharThe brown city of four roads — gold shafts, tin-cut cisterns and the great sheep exchange of the north, where hostile blocs trade with the Infernate through a polite fiction…
