Atlas entry
What the charts and ledgers of Kworgalya record of this place. Its own story has not yet been told.
The ground Kimmend holds is thin: a strip in the west where the boreal forest gives out and the ocean takes over, conifers standing almost to the waterline. Cold governs most of the year, and the open season is short enough that nothing in it is wasted. What the forest yields and what the boats bring in does not leave in the state it arrived. The work here is production, raw material taken in at one end and finished goods sent out at the other, and the living comes from the difference between the two.
Kimmend belongs to the fifth and most recent wave of expansion, one of the newer holdings on this stretch of coast. The folk here are Ashanar, covenant-keepers of the far horizons who reckon distance in sailing weeks and hold a spoken bond as tightly as a written one. The city does not stand alone. Its allegiance runs to Saradir, and it keeps that arrangement the way this people keep every arrangement they make.
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…
CitySaradirRiver-cut boreal forest surrounds Saradir, a major Ashanar military city of the west that owes allegiance to no other seat and draws it instead from cities out on the grassland.
CityKolmosWhere Sky Marries Sea — a three-tiered rainforest harbor where humans, harpies, and mermaids share one polity under the Triune Queens, famed for its harbor chain, its canopy…
CityKorahanBuried inland in the western boreal forest with neither river nor coast, Korahan is a modest Ashanar mining town that sends its ore overland to the seat at Basaran.
CityKoravidOn a lake in the boreal north, ringed by close spruce forest, Koravid lives by study rather than trade or timber, an elven foundation of the newest wave, and the Glacial Dominion…
CityKotoriA dwarven garrison cut into the mountain its people count as home, standing over a river in the western taiga, and the seat from which the surrounding mining holds take their…
CityKratavorSheltered ocean anchorage on the northern boreal coast where elven crews winter and refit their ships; raised in the fourth wave of expansion, the town takes its orders from the…
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.