Atlas entry
What the charts and ledgers of Kworgalya record of this place. Its own story has not yet been told.
North of the last spruce, where the taiga gives out and the ground is ice to every horizon, Frostdeep Eternum stands on the white. Nothing grows within reach of it. There is no forest to cut, no field to sow, no open water to fish, so what the place eats and burns comes in from far behind it and is counted carefully when it arrives. The building is set against cold before anything else: thick walls, deep floors, heat hoarded and shared, doorways turned out of the wind that comes off the flat.
The raising of it belongs to the third wave of expansion, and both peoples had a hand in the work. Elf and dwarf craft stand side by side in it, and both hold the ground still, wintering where neither could winter alone. What Frostdeep Eternum does is not harvest, not trade and not garrison duty; its business is its own, and the ice is the only neighbour it has. The holding answers to the Glacial Dominion.
PeopleThe ElvesThe Pavanar are the Warden's children — tall, ageless, and austerely beautiful keepers of the icebound northeast. Each is born to fire or to ice, and they prize the balance of…
PeopleThe DwarvesThe Himanar are the Hammer's children — broad, bearded, white-haired makers who do not father their heirs but craft them, giving away a permanent piece of themselves to do it.…
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…
RegionNorthern KworgalyaThe far north of the continent, ten settlements of boreal forest, taiga and standing ice, elven almost to a soul and sworn without exception to the Glacial Dominion.
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CityGrivallumOut on the open grassland of the south, Grivallum lives by plough, herd and garrison, owing its allegiance to Arkenta while Bareshum rules it and keeps it inside the Bareshum bloc.
CityHarayarCordage, fired ware and edged tools come out of Harayar, a modest and very old Ashanar town in the south-western chaparral whose output and loyalty both run to Tiramun, and past…