Atlas entry
What the charts and ledgers of Kworgalya record of this place. Its own story has not yet been told.
Candova stands where the southern savanna runs out of land: tall dry grass, scattered trees, and then the ocean. It is a modest town by the measure of the south, but an old one, among the original foundations laid down when its people first settled this coast. Three things keep it alive. Ore comes down from the country behind, furnaces and workshops turn that ore into finished goods, and the harbour carries the result away. The Candovan year follows the rains, which green the grazing and soften the roads in their season, then withdraw and leave the yards and quays working flat out.
Contracts do the governing here, in the Lohanar manner: shares in a furnace, terms of carriage, a season's labour, each set down and witnessed. Allegiance runs to Vallaris, and through Vallaris into the wider bloc gathered around Mareva. The faith is the Religion of the Ruby, one goddess in six aspects served by an all-female priesthood, and of the six the Candovans favour the Scorchmother, who governs growth. It suits a town measured by what the grass feeds and what the furnaces increase.
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…
CityVallarisWhere the Ashen Plains give out at the sea, a substantial military city of Lohanar and Suvanar keeps its walls and drill yards, seat of its own allegiance within the Mareva bloc…
CityMarevaWhere the southern tropical forest meets the ocean, Mareva builds and loads the ships that move a whole bloc's harvest and trade, and gives that bloc both its seat and its name.
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…
CityCasobarWhere a taiga river slows into a lake in the west, this small Lohanar settlement lives by its workshops and its water, answering to Darolas and Keberun and keeping the Ruby faith.
CityCelasorA scaffolded expedition camp above an intact buried temple-city of a vanished reptilian race — silver reliquaries, sealed doors, blind gold-furred guides, and the place the Ashen…
RegionCentral KworgalyaThe heart of the continent and the most crowded region of the Atlas — twenty-eight settlements across dry interior and grassland, where three faiths and two great blocs press…
FortressCinder PeaksGarrisoned high in the rocky mountains of the south-east, this small Lohanar fortress keeps itself under arms for the Emberguard and the Daskilon bloc, and holds to the Firewife.