Atlas entry
What the charts and ledgers of Kworgalya record of this place. Its own story has not yet been told.
Open grassland runs to every horizon around Kerevoz, broken only by the lake that pulls herds, wells and wagon tracks into one place. The town itself is modest, and the ground under it is the kind armies want: water, forage and level country on all sides, so that whatever musters here can leave in any direction. Soldiering has been the livelihood since the first wave of expansion carried Ashanar settlers out past the original foundations. Kerevoz keeps drill yards where other towns of its size keep market squares, and fills its granaries against a campaign rather than against a hard winter.
Its people are Ashanar, covenant-minded, though here the covenants are sworn in service rather than over cargo, and families measure their generations by musters. The ruling faction and the wider bloc both carry the name of Kerevoz, and that name is the town's chief inheritance; the orders themselves come from Mazarka, and Kerevoz obeys them without much argument. It furnishes the force and leaves to others the question of where to aim it.
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…
CityMazarkaWhere dry chaparral meets a wide lake in the south-west stands Mazarka, a great Ashanar trading city that gathers the ore and the levies of the towns around it.
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…
CityMelekesOut in open grassland beside a lake sits Melekes, a modest Ashanar mining town that imports everything but ore and answers, with its neighbours, to Mazarka.
CitySarakalLake water is what makes Sarakal possible: a modest and ancient Ashanar farming town on the dry south-western steppe, bound by allegiance to Tiramun and through it to Kerevoz.
RegionSouth-Western KworgalyaSixteen settlements of grassland, lake and thorn scrub in the continent's south-west — entirely Ashanar, and the only region of the Atlas whose towns are all of one people.
CityTiramunOne of the oldest Ashanar foundations, Tiramun is a substantial shipbuilding and naval city where south-western forest meets the ocean, a seat in its own right beneath the wider…
CityZaharaGrass hides the shafts of Zahara, a modest Ashanar mining town on a south-western lake, whose ore goes out over the water and whose obedience runs to Mazarka.