Atlas entry
What the charts and ledgers of Kworgalya record of this place. Its own story has not yet been told.
Not much of Korahan shows above the treeline. The town lies inland in boreal forest, with no river and no coast to open it up, so everything it produces leaves the way it came, overland, on cut tracks, in weather that shuts them for part of the year. Mining is the work, on a modest scale: a scatter of workings, sheds and cabins in a clearing the forest is forever trying to take back. Fuel and timber are the one surplus. Nearly everything else is hauled in at cost, which keeps the town frugal and the winter busy, since frozen ground carries loads that would bury a cart in the thaw.
Korahan's allegiance is Basaran's, and the relationship is measured in cartloads: ore out along the forest tracks toward the seat, and back along the same tracks whatever a mining town cannot make for itself. Fourth-wave Ashanar founded it, few enough that the same names turn up on the sorting floor, in the smithy and on the haul road, and the track is the one thing everyone here agrees is worth keeping open.
CityBasaranShipbuilding and lake water carry Basaran, a substantial Ashanar city in the boreal forest of the west, raised in the fifth expansion and seat of the allegiance that bears its…
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…
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.
CityLeimonaHerds and tilled fields ring Leimona, a substantial grassland city of the south-east where the Scorchmother's rites govern the farming year, rule belongs to Tirbasos and…
CityLemmaluSalt water on one side and dripping rainforest on the other, Lemmalu is a modest Ashanar harbour town living by ships and crews, its allegiance given inland to Tamazor.