Atlas entry
What the charts and ledgers of Kworgalya record of this place. Its own story has not yet been told.
Two waters make Kabaso. A river out of the boreal forest arrives at the ocean here, giving sheltered anchorage within and open sea beyond, and behind both stands an unbroken supply of the timber and pitch that fleets consume. The shoreline reads as one continuous yard, with slipways and berths, mast ponds, ropewalks, sheds for sailcloth and cordage, and the noise of refitting going on somewhere along it in almost any weather. Fish and forest keep the workers fed. Hulls are what the place is actually for, and it has grown substantial on them.
Founders of the fourth wave built here, and their people are the far-horizon Ashanar at their most characteristic: bound by covenant ashore, corsairs where the sea permits, at ease with a voyage that ends somewhere nobody at home has seen. Kabaso answers to itself. Smaller settlements along the same shore answer to Kabaso, sending down what they dig and taking back what only a harbour can bring in.
PeopleThe AshanarThe Ashanar are the humans of Kworgalya's storm-lashed southwestern coast — corsairs, deep-sea mariners, and pact-makers who dwell beyond the reach of any written law. Bound only…
CharacterViviraA daughter of the house that rules Kabaso, born to die young and saved by a dwarf who spent his own life to do it. The fragment of a Greatson set beneath her breastbone gave…
CityLanekutOre drawn from beneath the western boreal forest keeps Lanekut working, an inland Ashanar mining city of the fifth expansion, once called Kulanezkut and now answering to Kabaso.
CityMendizurOn a cold western coast where boreal forest runs down to the surf, Mendizur digs ore within sight of the water, ships it out by hull, and answers to Kabaso.
RegionWestern KworgalyaTwenty settlements of boreal forest and tundra along the western reach, predominantly Ashanar, where mining is the first living of nearly half the towns and no single seat holds…
CityKadumaCut into cold conifer forest in the south-west, Kaduma is a modest Ashanar mining town where the trees that shelter it timber its shafts, and where allegiance is owed to Nurazar.
CityKarlindA modest town of ploughmen and herders on the grassland beside a lake, Karlind is governed from Bannevar, answers through it to Risbern, and keeps the Radiant Light.
CityKarnostaThe Harbor of Freedom — a chaotic two-tiered free-haven port carved into limestone cliffs where forest meets sea, ruled by a Captains' Council, famed for its naval stores, its…