Atlas entry
What the charts and ledgers of Kworgalya record of this place. Its own story has not yet been told.
Everything Grivallum has comes off open grassland. Ploughland lies close in, grain and fodder in whatever the season will carry; beyond it the pasture runs out to the horizon, worked by drovers who move cattle between water and grazing on a long seasonal circuit. Harvest and herd feed the city and a great deal besides it. The same openness that makes the land productive makes it easy to cross, so Grivallum carries a military weight out of proportion to its size, and its walls, muster-yards and remount lines are as much a part of the living as the granaries.
Substantial without being grand, the city stands among the original foundations of the southern Lohanar. Its people farm, herd and soldier, often the same family in different seasons, and they carry the Lohanar preference for law over strong hands: grazing rights, service terms and grain shares are settled in writing and enforced the same way. Allegiance is owed to Arkenta. Rule, in practice, comes from Bareshum, and the city is counted within the bloc that Bareshum leads.
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…
CityArkentaGreat, walled and mineral-rich in the southern shrubland, Arkenta heads the allegiance that carries its name, is governed from Venesta, and stands within the bloc gathered at…
CityBareshumBareshum spreads across the open southern grassland, a major Ashanar city that lives by arms, muster and remount, and answers to no seat above its own.
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…
CityHipalosHeart of the Plains — a sprawling city of yurts, herds, and wide skies where horses are said to have first been tamed, breeding the golden mounts and war-rhinos of the Daskilon…
CityHylessaA living forest-city in the eastern rainforest — founded to tame the wild and now the greatest refuge in the world for the peoples it was sent to destroy, ruled by a human crown…
FortressIgnis SanctumA small mountain fortress of recent making in the south-east, garrisoned by Lohanar and Suvanar, answering to Emberguard within the Daskilon bloc and holding to the rites of the…
CityImmiraRain-drowned and ocean-facing, this recently raised Lohanar mining town of the southern rainforest ships its ore out by water and answers to Mareva within the Arkenta allegiance.