Atlas entry
What the charts and ledgers of Kworgalya record of this place. Its own story has not yet been told.
Taiga is thin country — black spruce, bog, snow that outstays every other season — and Kotori stands where it breaks against high stone. This is the home mountain, the peak the dwarves of the west name as theirs, with a river at its foot to give water, float timber and move anything too heavy for a road. The city's business is not ore. Barrack galleries, armouries, drill floors cut flat out of the rock, muster yards cleared of snow before first light: Kotori arms and feeds columns that the mining towns could never keep. Food and metal come in from those towns. What goes back out is protection.
Kotori was raised in the first wave of expansion after the original foundations, and the mining country of the west and north-west takes its orders here — the gem-cutting towns, the landlocked ore towns, the late shafts driven out under the sea. Its dwarves are sons like every dwarf, crafted by the hands that came before them, and in Kotori a son is measured for a place in a column before he is measured for a bench.
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…
CityLokiviOne of the oldest dwarven holds, sunk into the north-western pinewoods where a river runs down to the sea, cutting gemstones by lamplight and answering to Kotori.
RegionNorth-Western KworgalyaTwo dwarven mining towns in the north-western boreal forest, Lokivi and Sokasi, both sworn to Kotori and both living off what they cut from the rock.
CitySokasiRaised in the second wave of dwarven expansion, Sokasi digs ore beneath the north-western pinewoods and makes the gear the neighbouring holds mine with, under the authority of…
CityVesikiSalt water lies over the deepest galleries at Vesiki, a late-founded dwarven mining town on the western pine coast whose pumps never stop and whose loyalty runs to Kotori.
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…
PeopleThe DwarvesThe Himanar are the Hammer's children — broad, bearded, white-haired makers who do not father their heirs but craft them, giving away a permanent piece of themselves to do it.…