Atlas entry
What the charts and ledgers of Kworgalya record of this place. Its own story has not yet been told.
Firimal belongs to the fifth and most recent wave of expansion, and it still shows: a small settlement in the temperate desert at the centre of the continent, laid out around its shafts rather than grown around a market. What it has is ore, and what it lacks is everything else. Grain, fuel, timber and fodder are brought in; stone and metal go back out the same way. The desert keeps the place honest about its size — there is no hinterland to feed it, no water to carry for it, and the working season is set by how many hands can be held in one spot at once.
The Firimene are Lohanar, and the arrangement above them is not simple. The settlement answers to Brunthar; the Bloodbound Covenant commands it directly; and beyond them it is counted within the Glacial Dominion. What holds steady through the shifting of masters is the faith. Firimal keeps the Religion of the Ruby, and its priestesses — women all, as everywhere in that faith — tend the flame the miners come up to.
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…
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…
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…
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…
CityFlammundThe lake-kingdom where the Infernal Creed was first proclaimed — an independent Suvanar monarchy of eighty thousand, holiest city of the faith, and the respectable face of the…
LandmarkFrostdeep EternumElves and dwarves raised Frostdeep Eternum together in the third wave, out past the treeline on the open ice of the north, where its work is neither harvest nor trade; the…
CityGlimarosSet between a river and a lake on the eastern grassland, Glimaros mines, harvests and smelts what it digs before sending it on; a modest Glimaran town of the Radiant Light…